101 Things To Do in 1001 Days | 3rd Edition
Unbelievably it’s time for the third 101 things to do in 1001 days challenge. The second edition of the challenge finished a few days ago, and I managed to achieve 39 things on the list. I was down on my first attempt where I managed 48 out of the 101. So let’s see how I do from 2024 to 2026.
First things first, what’s on my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days this time?
Start Date: 23rd March 2024
End Date: 19th December 2026
Health & Fitness
- Lose a stone
- Donate blood at least five times
- Do exercise at least once a week
- Walk 10k steps a day for one month
- Give up soft drinks for one month
- Lower my cholesterol
- Play a team sport with friends
- Decrease my BMI by 5
- Give up coffee for a month
Career
- Get a promotion
- Give three talks on publishing/writing (x1 Northern Lights Writers Conference)
- Volunteer on an MA course and/or alumni event
- Publish three articles as a freelance journalist
- Earn £10,000 more than I did in December 2023
- Start a freelance business
- Get nominated as a Bookseller Rising Star
- Work on a book/in a team that wins a Nibbie
- Take a sabbatical
- Be paid for a speaking engagement
- Go to the Nibbies
Writing
- Write three new novels
- Edit OWW
- Get a UK book deal
- Have a launch party
- Be on a panel as an author and/or publisher
- Draft my novel DWBH
- Go on a writing retreat
- Write three short stories
- Be on a panel with another author
- Attend a book festival as an author
Travel
- Visit three new UK cities
- Travel to Florence & Rome
- Visit Hill Top in the Lake District
- Have a spa weekend
- Spend a weekend in Paris
- Visit the ABBA museum in Sweden
- Have my eye photographed in Amsterdam
- Return to Edinburgh
- Go book shopping in Hey-on-Wye
- Travel on a sleeper train
- Visit another heritage railway
- Visit five museums in London
- Go to Center Parcs
Food & Drink
- Have lunch at Quaglindos
- Have lunch or dinner at Inamo
- Have a cocktail at the American Bar in the Savoy
- Eat at Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant at the Savoy
- Try ten new recipes from TikTok
- Don’t get takeout (inc lunches!) for one month
- Add my ten favourite recipes to my recipe folder
- Have a dinner party with friends
- Make fresh pasta
- Cook sausage rolls for the team at Christmas
- Make butter from scratch
- Try 10 new recipes
Books
- Read 200 books
- Read ten classic novels
- Read two new Charles Dickens novels
- Review ten books on Amazon, Goodreads and/or Waterstones
- Do a quarterly cull of at least ten books
- Shop at Words on the Water
- Read (or attempt to read!) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Collect ten more William Shakespeare’s plays in Oxford World Classics editions
- Listen to one hundred audiobooks
- Visit five new bookshops
Experiences
- Go to a Rage Room
- Go back to the Harry Potter Studios
- Go pottery painting
- Visit three Art Galleries
- Visit three Museums
- Visit three English Heritage sites
- See the Christmas Lights at Eltham Palace and/or Kew Gardens
- Take a road trip with friends
- Create a Spotify list for each season
- Do another Memory Walk for charity
- Get my nails done
- Get red/green tinsel in my hair for Christmas
- See a play at Shakespeare’s Globe
- Watch ten classic films
- Do another escape room
Home & Personal
- Do something to celebrate my 30th Birthday
- Conquer my driving anxiety
- Do a three+ hour drive in/to an area I don’t know
- Journal for a year
- Paint a room in my flat
- Tidy and use my garden
- Get a floor-to-ceiling cat climber for Puck
- Buy furniture for a house
Finances
- Save £500 a month for at least six months
- Have £15,000 in savings
- Get a mortgage
- Get my full Lifetime ISA bonus twice
- Complete a No-Spend Day every month
- Invest my money
- Hire an accountant
Blog & Social
- Grow my Instagram by 500 followers
- Hit 5000 TikTok followers
- Start and maintain a Substack
- Grow my Mailchimp and/or Substack newsletter by 250 subscribers
- Complete my 30 by 30 list
- Post on TikTok once a day for 30 days
Have you ever attempted a 101 things in 1001 days challenge? Let me know in the comments below. And good luck if you attempt it!
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