101 in 1001 update 1 year later

It seems like a good time of year to take some time and reflect on my progress



Bold: Successful
Underline: I'm going to focus my energy on these
Italics: Underway
Strikeout: Not working out so well

And so my list:
Health and Mind
1. Stop trying to be vegan and just be [I've been trying as much as possible]
2. Write about the dreams that I have at night in my blog [Have to do this]
3. Learn about and do a detox [Bought a book, and am learning. Not ready to do this yet]
4. Write a list of 101 things that make me happy [52/101]
5. Me time once a month [0/33]
6. Take multivitamins, in particular iron, calcium and B12 as I’m deficient in each [taken on and off,need to be more vigilant]
7. Start a herb garden [I've had coriander, basil, thyme and chives growing]
8. Buy a bento box and create a new vegan lunch each morning [Making lunch most days for college, but have yet to buy a bento]
9. Swim 101 laps one day [Only on about 10]
10. Exercise every day, be it going to the gym or walking home instead of taking the bus
11. Plan a routine for college, work, fun and exercise and keep track of it
12. Drop X pounds and keep them off for the 1001 days [-Y/X]
13. Spend a whole day alone without mobile, internet or television once each year [0/2]
14. Join a horse-riding school
15. Appreciate the positives [Am going to try and write more to do this]
16. Learn a mind trick inspired by Darren Brown [He taught me about negative suggestion]
17. Eat less soy products. I had a tofu addiction [Eating less soy, I plan to do some research into where to find sustainable soy products]
18. Get abs, even if they are only small ones [This may take some time, and less other responsibilities]
19. Try the raw food diet for at least one week [Bought a book to research this]

Creative
20. Participate in each NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo [0/6] [They came and went this year, maybe next year]
21. Repurchase my flickr pro account and use it once a month [12/33]
22. Read at least one 'non college related' book for each month [7/33]
23. Complete 100 snapshots 100_snapshots [0/100]
24. Carry a moleskin with me everywhere [It's not always a moleskin, but I always have a note book on hand]
25. Finally buy a new lens for my camera [Bought two!]
26. Take part in embodiment embodiment
27. Use my camera to take part in project 365 [3/365] [Got half-way, stopped, and started again]
28. Fill 3 sketchbooks [0/3] [Need to do this! Have started painting again although]
29. Sell a piece of art
30. Go to life drawing sessions [Only been to a few, would like to make it a more regular thing]
31. Sew some clothing that other people would like to wear [Have done, wore them out and even got some complements]
32. Spend a week planning and making an awesome Halloween costume [This year, last year I was in Taiwan]
33. Be part of the creation of a short file and enter it into a film contest [Entered the Doritos ad competition]

Knowledge
34. Take a part-time course to learn a new language [I would like to sign up in October to brush up on my poor French]
35. Rekindle my passion for playing piano [The passion is there, I've been listening to a lot of modern pieces on you tube. Maybe next year I'll buy a decent electric piano]
36. Learn how to recognize the constellations [There is a course in my college on Astrology that clashes with other classes, again, maybe next year.. that or some personal study :) ]
37. Learn to identify and appreciate wine [Have bought a book, and plan to start a wine club this month]
38. Take swimming lessons [I have been taking aqua aerobic lessons, stopped, and plan to go back]
39. Practice cupcake decoration [Doing a lot of this ^_^]
40. Learn to kiteboard [Got a kite, harness, and the wet gear, been kiting,scared to death but I love it]
41. Learn something new everyday [The plan was that it be written into my moleskin as part of embodiment and update with photos, but this is taking too much time. I need to refocus this thing so that I can accomplish it better]
42. Be conscientious of my research question when developing new theories or creating experiments [Have based new implementations on sound psychological theories,not tested yet thought]
43. Be an ethical and critical experimenter [Experiment coming up next month I hope]
44. Learn how to use my unicycle [I suck, must practice more]
45. Learn 10 devil stick tricks [0/10]
46. Learn 10 more poi tricks [1/10] [Learning flowers]
47. Learn to amaze my friends with my contact ball

Work / College
48. Finish my research and graduate with a PhD [Some day]
49. Publish an article
50. Be referenced by another author
51. Build a professional portfolio and a well thought out five year plan
52. Buy a log book and write 100 words each work day [I have been writing every day in my log book. It's massively useful]
53. Lecture with passion. Do this by continuing to engage with my students, reading, and attending as many courses I can find. [Attained a postgraduate certificate in Academic Practice. I need to use some of the resources available to build a progress report for reflection over this coming year]
54. Take time to decide what I want to do in the future [Must do this, I have too many dreams and aspirations]
55. Recreate my website at least once a year [1/3]
56. Become a well known web geek [Vegan food blog was starting to take off but college was a priority, now I have load of foodie picture and recipies that I must upload soon, hopefully my personal one will take off this year]
57. Learn and use LaTeX [Learned the basics of TeXShop, wrote one paper in it so far, moved back to word. Will use as needed and learn more that way]

People
58. Collect my friends postal addresses and post a package or letter to each [I sent xmas cards and pressies to the ones that I had, I'm going to hound more people over the upcoming months and maybe send birthday presents by post, I'm starting to love posting parcels!]
59. Send a text to a different far away friend at least once a month [0/33] [Totally haven't done this yet :S]
60. Ring my grandfather [Planned to over xmas, chickened out, will set a date]
61. Develop and sustain a relationship that is on my own terms with my mother [Have been in contact more, learning what to say and what not to]
62. Organise a picnic [Forgot about this one!]
63. Cook for a dinner party of over a dozen people [Helped cook for several hundred at a party with immense success. It was vegan food and they were mostly omni as well ^_^]

64. Adventure
65. Go to the tourist attractions in Ireland and take a photo at each [This sounds like a good one for this year, I'll wait until the summer to start though]
66. Drive to France and bring back several cases of wine
67. Go on a road trip to the Burning Man [Wow]
68. Travel to see the Cirque Du Soliel [Saw it in Belfast, Vegas, and soon in Dublin]
69. Regularly go home to Sligo to see friends, family and spend time exercising my horse [I go quite regularly, and was out horse riding most days over xmas]
70. Visit Japan [I have been to Taiwan instead, I don't think I'll get to Japan in the next year or so]
71. Go sailing with friends to one of the islands on Lough Gill for a night of camping, bonfire and cheesy tunes.
72. Participate in GimmeYourStuff [Need to do this!]
73. Drive my car at it’s top speed on the autoban in Germany
74. Go “all in” at a table in Vegas
75. See at least one of the great Wonders of the World

Good Will
76. Plant at least one tree every year [0/3] [Haven't done this, but plan to buy fruit trees to donate to the old man so as I can work towards cancling my carbon foot print for the year]
77. Give up products produced by nasty corporations such as cocacola or those that test on animals [Trying to avoid products with Palm Oil, Glaxo Smith Clyne, Coke, and Nestle]
78. Volunteer in some form, eventually I would like to join the life guards [Need to consider this carefully when I have less responsibilities]
79. Donate 10,000 grains of rice on FreeRice
80. Create 101 graffiti art installations
81. Give away 101 things that I do not need to charity [34/101]
82. If a friend is in hospital make sure to visit them [I find this difficult but am working on it]
83. Hang a bird feeder [Bought one for my father]
84. Calculate my carbon footprint and cancel it out [Well, work on lowering it. About 4.8 roughly, have bought 4 energy saver bulbs for the house, more vigilant at recycling]

Personal Growth
85. Register and use my vote [Registered, waiting for the next chance to vote]
86. Post Secret and make it mean something
87. Find the right tattoo and get it done by a famous artist, even if that means traveling to a different country [Still thinking about this]
88. Start a savings account [Have done and have saved for Burning Man road trip, now I need to start saving again]
89. Start the FLYlady routines
90. Pass my driving test [Passed it second time round!]
91. Buy a house (This will be some time towards the end of my research) even if I don't intend to live in it
92. Learn a new recipe every month [33/33] [More than one a month at this point thanks to my blog
93. Do 27 selfish things and blog about it[0/27]
94. Do 27 unselfish things and blog about it [1/27]
95. Go busking at least once
96. Play a DJ set

Misc
97. Sell on eBay [I have way too many material things]
98. Join 43 Things to track the progress of 101 things in 1001 days [Joined, set it up, never used it]
99. Own my own kiteboarding equipment [Kite and bar so far]
100. Give my dreads the love and attention they deserve and maintain them at least once every two months [3/16] [They need a lot of maintenance at the moment]

Finally
101. On day 1001 publish another 101 list