100 Goals to Achieve by the End of the Year
I wrote 100 goals. There are 187 days left in the year.
I have started practising the exercise where if you have a large idea, you write down 100 sub-ideas within it. The general idea is the first ones are the quickest to come to mind, but are often too easy and it’s the ones in the middle and at the end when you’re pushing yourself that are where the good stuff really is.
For example, I wanted to make a zine but didn’t know what to do, so I wrote 100 zine themes. The 100 ideas don’t each have to be stand outs, a lot of the time the items on the list are slight modifications or additions to previous items.
Here are my 100 goals, with the aim to complete them by 11:59PM, December 31st, 2018. I think they can be summed up in some categories — mainly professional work (I work at Startup Muster right now), creative stuff, environmental/local stuff, and random personal goals.
- Sell a zine I made
- Meet Arlan Hamilton
- Get nominated for/win the Community Person of the Year award at StartCon
- Get 6k+ Startup Muster surveys completed between July 2–27 (Australian startups/supporters only)
- Sew a cheongsam dress
- Get 50 schools to participate in my personal research project
- Write a report for use by school teachers from the above project
- Write an academic paper
- Get it published in a journal
- Make 1 zine per month
- Learn to play the xylophone
- Get 2k followers here on Medium
- Get 5k contacts on LinkedIn
- Get a pay rise
- Plan + book 2019 Europe trip
- Take a class of some sort
- Blog regularly, anywhere
- Upload 1 video per week to LinkedIn
- Update my personal website
- Make pjs + a shirt for my boyfriend Will
- Get 10k views on a LinkedIn video
- Paint something, anything
- Go on a picnic
- Complete our teapot dates (we have date ideas on scraps of paper in a teapot we pull out at random)
- Go 30 days without buying plastic
- Upgrade my home workstation
- Save $10k
- Dye my hair purple
- Dye my hair green
- Film a video series about branding
- Do three pullups
- Exercise minimum twice a week
- Connect with the Foundation for Young Australians
- Hold an education focused round table
- Work on keeping up my Japanese
- Read a physical book daily
- Do a panel talk
- Do a keynote
- Mentor three programs
- Understand personal investing more
- Interview an astronaut
- Interview a politician
- Interview a big CEO
- Organise an awards night
- Publish a case study on Mumbrella
- Write an OpEd for Startup Daily.
- Publish an article in Marketing magazine
- Produce a comedy video
- Produce a properly scripted video
- Complete my analysis of the Fortune 500
- And an analysis for Australian counterparts
- Enter a local photography contest
- Try three new crafts
- Rebrand Startup Muster
- Run a mental health campaign for Startup Muster
- Do a photoshoot for fake ads
- Complete my reading list
- Write a murder mystery
- Host a spring party on our rooftop
- GM a tabletop RPG
- Write an original tabletop RPG plot
- Be a guest on a podcast
- Collaborate with someone new on a project
- Design a movie poster
- Bake more
- Loan out my books to people I think will be interested in them
- Run once a week for four weeks in a row
- Do something as Deputy Deputy Lord Mayor
- Attend a community dinner at our local community centre
- Plant the herbs my old housemate gave me
- Hold board game nights with friends regularly
- Support one artist each month
- Design a consumer product
- Mock up a consumer facing brand
- Upgrade my camera lenses
- Deep clean the apartment
- Complete the sunflower puzzle we’ve had for over six months
- Write one of these lists once a week
- Go to three reasonably distant places for the first time
- Give more compliments to strangers
- Develop one roll of film per month
- Read three books in Japanese
- Design a fabric pattern
- Watch more foreign films
- Eat at more local restaurants
- Support local retailers more
- Buy vegetables from farmers markets where possible
- Bulk buy staple ingredients where possible
- Support small music venues more
- Go to a tarot/fortune reading
- Print photos for display or gifts once a month
- Make recipes from cookbooks I already own
- Make beef wellington with Will for Christmas (his idea)
- Design an art exhibition
- Stand up for sexism when I see it
- Be more charitable
- Catalogue my commercial writing
- Make a custom patch for my denim jacket
- Make a bowl out of clay
- Complete all 100!
It actually took me quite a while to get to 100. Each list I’ve made has varied slightly in time, but averages out to about three hours from the first to last ideas. This list took me well over a week. I wanted to make sure they were all actually achievable, whereas for other lists it doesn’t matter so much.
Since I started writing this list, I’ve actually already achieved or began working on some of the goals.
6. 50 schools to participate in research project — launched it earlier this month and already have 40
10. Make one zine per month — made the first one this month!
11. Learn the xylophone — I bought a xylophone
13. 5k contacts on LinkedIn — I had about 300 in February, I now have 1250
17/18. Blog/make videos regularly — I have been
31/32. Exercise and do three pullups — I signed up for a static trapeze class at my gym, which includes a lot of pullups
33. Connect with FYA — I applied for their program, I find out the results in August
36. Read daily — I have been, and recently finished Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
38. Do a keynote — I’ll be doing a talk on July 11 at Macquarie University Incubator
39. Mentor three programs — already signed on for one in August and another in July
40. Understand personal investing — I’ve signed up for an entry level investing service and have been chatting to VCs about how they approach personal investing
41. Interview an astronaut — reached out and am in the middle of setting the date
48. I’ve started brainstorming jokes with a few people and already have the plot outline done
50. Complete an analysis of the Fortune 500 — about half way done for initial research
65. Bake more — I’ve got Hokkaido milk bread (recipe) in the oven as I type this
