About a year ago, I read a blog post from Alice in Sheffield that I loved. 101 goals in 1001 days. It seemed like a great way to keep track of the goals I wanted to make and achieve.
The more I thought about it the more I loved it. I decided there and then to set up a countdown for my 40th Birthday. Wanting the list to start when I reached 1001 days to my 40th. Now as I finally sit down to write this I am 1006 days from my 40th. That really doesn’t seem like a lot of time. And I can’t believe how long I have been thinking about this idea and it’s only NOW that I am putting fingers to keyboard!
101 goals in 1001 days
I wanted to break down my goals in to sections just to make it look a little less overwhelming. I can’t tell you how many times I have counted it to check that there is indeed 101 things listed here.
Start date: 24th October 2020
Finish Date: 22nd July 2023
Personal Goals
- Create my 101 in 1001 list
- Celebrate my Hen do
- Get Married
- Turn 40
- Lose Weight
- Reduce my Caffeine intake
- Complete some form of exercise each day
- Reach 10,000 steps on 4 days out of 7
- Complete this list
- Take part in Charity walks at least once a year
- Put £5 away for each goal achieved
- Raise £1000 for Myton Hospice
- Watch the sunrise
- Reduce my sugar intake
Travel Goals
- Visit Disneyland Paris at Christmas
- Visit a European Christmas Market
- Create a proper Bucket list
- See the Northern Lights
- Visit all the Countries that make up the UK
- Try to weekend away twice a year (Minus children!)
- Go to Cornwall
- Visit New York
- Have a Honeymoon
- Hotel Spa break
- Go to Portugal
- Weekend away with the girls
- Go to the Shard
- Visit 30 National trust properties
- Work our way through our Walk route book
Family and Friend Goals
- Day out to London with the family
- Host a games night
- Photo a week of each child
- Take my God children out for the day
- Have a family photoshoot
- Host Brunch
- Organise a family get together
- Write letters to family
- Host a holiday party
- Visit Legoland
- Host a dinner party
- Hold a self care night for friends
- Pay it forward 5 times
- Have more time one on one with each of the children
- Make date night compulsory once a month
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Blogging Goals
- Double my monthly views
- Reach 5000 twitter follows
- Work with 30 Brands
- Set up my email list
- Create my media kit
- Set up my resources page
- Re-brand my blog
- Start a new blog series
- Go to a blogger event
- Meet some of my lovely blogger pals in real life
- Start accepting guest posts
- Create an E-Book
- Hit 3000 Instagram followers
- Re-design my website
- Do an update on this post every 100 days
- Write every day
Productivity Goals
- Clean out my phone and back up
- Complete all my scrapbook projects
- Journal Daily
- Read 50 books
- Learn to bake bread
- Learn to french braid
- Attempt to grow our own vegetables
- Unplug for one weekend in 8
- Start to drive our Automatic car
- Change ALL passwords
- Sort all the photographs I have saved electronically
- Write my next 101 in 1001 post
- Clear out my Wardrobe and donate to Myton Hospice
Wellbeing Goals
- Self care once a month
- Get my hair done more regularly
- Stop washing my hair daily
- Do more beauty prep for the wedding
- Visit the cinema alone
- Take myself out for a coffee once a month
Financial Goals
- Continue to save 10% of my salary
- Pay off the wedding
- Build up an ’emergency fund’
- Get Life insurance
- Increase my monthly pension payments
- Have 3 ‘no spend months’
- Begin to think about a will
- Amalgamate my previous pensions
- Create a monthly budget
- Shop more efficiently
Just for Fun goals
- Complete the IMDB’s top 100 films – Just for Fun Goals
- Complete our War movie series
- Watch a play
- Go to an outdoor cinema
- Make sushi at home
- Watch a live comedy show
- Go on a tour of a Gin distellery
- Go wine tasting
- Try 10 new restaurants
- Go to a concert
- See our wedding band live before the big day
- Celebrate what would have been our wedding and my Hen do!
I am excited to begin this journey, If I really have to turn 40 I am going to make it a REALLY big deal! It was not an easy list to put together though. 101 goals is a lot but I am hopeful this will be a lot of fun.
One of my goals is to check back in and update every 100 days, so I will let you all know how I am getting on.
Have you ever tried something like this on the run up to a big birthday? How successful were you?
What a great idea for a countdown until your birthday. It is great to have all your goals categorised. I hope you manage to achieve the goals. A great idea about a £5 award for achieving each goal. Thank you for sharing.
Lauren http://www.bournemouthgirl.com
I had to break it down or it would have seemed so overlwhelming. It is exciting to have so much to focus on. I have already put away £20 which is nice x
What a fab idea! I’ve left it WAY too late to start as I’ll be 40 next August. Can’t wait to see your posts as you check things did your list.
Thank you! I am excited to do an update, I have saved £20 already from the ones I have completed x x
This is amazing! I love it, great idea and I hope you check all these things off your list ❤️
Thank you Amanda, It is lovely to have so much to work towards x x
I LOVE this idea! Your goals are so diverse as well, I’ve been thinking about setting myself some long term goals, and this is such a great idea, I think I will have to do the same! Thank you so much for sharing such a wonderful idea and amazing goals! I hope you get your dream wedding!
Thank you Jen! I really hope our dream wedding happens, I’m trying not to think about the reality that it may never quite be the wedding we planned x
Thank you so much Jen. I have found it so motivating to have this list, it is always in the back of my mind and actually really excites me x
Wow, this is something I haven’t thought about, I love your blogging goals. I think I will have to set my own goals.
I find having goals so so helpful. It really gives me a focus x
I love this post. I hope you manage to tick off all your bucketlist goals! There are so many fun and unique ideas on this list. I’d love to go back to Legoland for myself and have a date night more often. Hopefully this pandemic settles down so you can go out and tick off all your travel goals!
Em x
Thank you so much Emily, lets hope life gets back to some kind of normality soon x
Some good things to do here!
Thanks Ben
This is a great list. Good luck with achieving it! Maybe I should make a similar list for 60! Hmmm.
Wow I loved reading this post, I’ve actually read it a few times now and noted down some of your goals that I’d like to set for myself! I hope that everything in the world calms down a bit so that you can hit those amazing goals!
Rosie
Thank you so much Rosie, I am glad there are some goals that you’d like to achieve as well. Let me know how you get on x
Oh what a great idea and way for making and achieving goals! Some of the goals you listed are some of my own too! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
Doesn’t it give you so much focus having goals set. I am constantly thinking about the next one I am going to tick off x
Ambitious but fair play to you! Firstly for FINDING 101 things to think of! Hope you can smash as many as possible 😁
It was NOT easy but a lot of fun to be had x
I love how everything is sectioned into types of goals! I couldn’t even think of this many!
Amber | The Unpredicted Page
It was not easy but breaking it down really helped x
This is a brilliant list! Very ambitious but you’ll have a great time ticking each one off. Can’t wait to read all about your adventures x
Thank you Linz. it is so exciting to have some awesome goals to work towards x
What a fabulous set of goals! We reach that special number in the same year but I have set diddly squat goals so far… really do need to get on with making a list!
Visiting a European Christmas Market and also New York will definitely feature on mine too! 🙂 Sim x
Oh Fabulous we can have a joint blog birthday bash! It was a lot of fun to create, I can highly recommend x
What a great list, I should do something like this we would love to see the Northern Lights as well
My only worry is booking a trip and then not being able to see them but I guess its a risk worth taking x
This is such a great idea! I can’t wait to read blog posts about you achieving each one of these.
Thank you Sarah, I am already looking forward to updating you all x
Disneyland Paris at Christmas is the most MAGICAL thing you will EVER experience. I can’t wait until you cross that one off the list so I can hear all about it. All my fingers and toes crossed for you, I’m sure you’ll do brilliantly with all these goals xxxxxx
I want to go at every season possible, They just make it so exciting and magical.
We’ve done easter and even in the pouring rain it was incredible x
I’m bookmarking this as it’s my 50th next year. I’ve done quite a few things on your list and I’ve been to Iceland twice and still not seen the Northern lights!
That is what worries me, But I have to remind myself that Iceland is on my bucket list anyway x
Oh my gosh, I love this so much!! I think I’m going to do this on a smaller scale… maybe 5 goals a week that I want to accomplish! and make new ones every week. Your list is so inspiring!
That is such a great idea Emmy x
Oh wow, that’s a lot of goals. I hope you manage to do most of them. I’d love to go to Legoland again with the kids.
Too many I fear. But I sort of thought in the back of my mind that even if I managed 50% it would be good going!
I absolutely love this, such a great idea ! I will also turn 40 soon – gonna get inspired from your goal list, also this was so much fun to read !
Oh I hope you create your own list x x
This is such an awesome idea and I love you list! So many great things listed here and all achievable I think too! Good for you and good luck with your list, I am sure you will smash it! x
So many goals! I hope you get to tick loads off 🙂
These are all such great goals! Good luck to you achieving them all during this timeframe!
Thank you so much Charity x
Goals can be really useful if progress can be measured. Best of luck to you in reaching a bunch of them!
Thank you Valerie x x
This is SO inspiring! I’ve just read it with a big grin on my face. I really hope you can complete as many of these as possible, it’s a fantastic combination of goals here. You’ve also got me thinking about what I’d want to do – probably a slippery slope, haha. Great post!
Hahaha I hope it inspires you to create you own Lindsey, I had so much fun putting it together and hopefully checking it all off x
These are some amazing goals! I can really recommend The Shard so I hope you get to visit soon!
Tash // A Girl with a View
I have already been looking at booking this! It looks incredible x
This is a fantastic idea! I’m all about big quests and projects. They are so motivating! I also believe it’s a good idea to put a time limit on a bucket list so you don’t end up waiting too long to do those things. I look forward to following your project. Good luck!
Yes that was exactly my thought. And if it’s a success, maybe I can carry unfinished stuff on to a new list, 1001 days seems like a really long time but I bet it’ll fly past x
I loved reading this! Goals are so important to have and I like the sound of all of yours – I hope you’re able to achieve them all x
http://www.dellalovesnutella.co.uk/
Thank you so much Della x
Some fab goals here! This is such a good thing to look back on as well when you start achieving these goals!
Thank you so much Hannah, I am excited to get updating x
Wow, this is absolutely lovely, Claire! I’ve spotted a few of your goals that I want to put on my wishlist as well: see the Northern Lights, self care once a month, and create an eBook (although I have no idea on what subject!). I hope you tick as many as possible off and I look forward to the next update in 100 days time 🙂 xx
Thank you Lisa! You should definitely write an ebook, maybe on your marvellous gardening skills, or even create your own garden planner. I think people would love that x
I love this idea! What a lot of goals to tick off – I am sure you will manage to get a lot of them done! Fingers crossed you can manage them all!
Thank you Rebecca, I really hope so x x
This is such an awesome concept as having so much time to complete the tasks is great, but still, 101 is a lot to achieve. You have some great goals x
I am hoping for at least 50% and anything above is a bonus. I just hope Covid doesn’t put a lot of it to bed!
Thanks for sharing your list, I like that once a goal is complete that you donate £5 sounds a great idea 🙂
Nic | Nic’s Adventures & Bakes
Thank you Nic x
What a fantastic way to countdown to your birthday. Love that you have broken the goals down into categories and have a just for fun one.
I needed to make it look less intimidating, It seems much easier to manage now x
This is such a great idea. I’d love to do something similar. You’ve mentioned so many great goals, I hope you achieve them all.
Thank you so much Kelly x
Woah, 101 seems like so many goals but I like how you split them up into different groups, it makes them seem much more achievable!
Good luck with them 🙂
Thank you. I had to break them down or it just seemed too overwhelming x
Lovely idea, this is super motivating to read too! I hope you achieve them, I have quite a few of the same ones 🙂
Anika | chaptersofmay.com
Thank you Anika, I look forward to updating with good news soon x
I love your list. This is a fab idea although I am over 40 already, maybe I should do this for 50. It is great to tick things off!
I love a list and ticking stuff off. I’ve been known to add things I’ve already done just so I can tick it off!!
I really enjoyed reading this! You have some great ideas!! I like the blog and productivity ones 🙂 Wonder how many you will achieve?
I was reading through yesterday and started to panic a bit but realised I have a long time and I have already ticked some off x x
This is such a great idea and you have some lovely goals. Good luck ticking everything off!
Thank you! It is exciting to have so much to focus on x x
I’m 40 in 6 years and I’ve been thinking about a lot that I might like to do. Covid makes it hard to think about that though.
Ooo what a fab idea for a post. I love to write my goals down and think it is such a great way to achieve your goals. Good luck and can’t wait to read how many you have achieved x
I did a 40 before 40 list and managed to get most of them done. Although I do like the way you have broken this down into different sections. I probably should do a 50 before 50 list but 50 just feels so old!! Maybe one to think about over the Winter… thanks for the inspiration
I will be 40 in just over 4 years, and I think this is a great idea that I will be doing myself.
lovely idea hopefully you achieve them all best of luck🙂.