101 in 1001

Why 1001?

Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 101 in 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks. This is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips or outdoor activities. To start your own, calculate the finish date here!

101 in 1001 (2014-2016)

101 in 1001 (2014-2016)

A beach in the Dominican Republic! <3

Start: April 4, 2014
Finish: December 30, 2016

Health + Fitness

1) Continue lifting/strength training 3x/week. (Exceptions unfortunately apply during exam weeks.)
2) Deadlift > 340, Squat > 240, Bench Press > 160 in the 114-weight class would have me beating all the national records. For 123, it’s D-375, BP-176, S-265.
3) Flexibility training 10 minutes/day.
4) Foundations 1+2/Handstands with Jun.
5) Continue following IIFYM.
6) Get BF% to 17%.
7) Drink at least 8 cups of water per day.
8) Continue running/doing some form of endurance activity 3x/week.
9) Compete in another powerlifting competition.
10) Take TKD + BJJ classes whenever possible!
11) Relson Gracie seminars! [3/3] 12) Take free fitness classes at OLBH hospital gym.

  • Zumba Tone
  • R.I.P.P.E.D.
  • Aquatics Boot Camp
  • Outdoor Boot Camp
  • Pilates

13)Ā Aerial lyra classes in Asheville. (11/07/15)
14)Ā Check out the BJJ classes at your rotations! (Modesto + Fresno) Went to Rhalan’s classes in Dublin instead…until I broke my hand. :[
15) Rhalan Gracie seminar (11/19/15)

Giving

1) Help fundraise forĀ Please Save A Cat/Friends For Life, Inc. inĀ Taste of Our Town + the craft fair!Ā (I also donate my time + the money from sponsored posts to them! <3 )
2) Continue volunteering at PSAC/FFL whenever you find the time/an excuse to visit.

Academic/Career

1) Pass all my 2nd year classes.Ā (04/18/14) – it still doesn’t feel real!
2) Take COMLEX. (07/05/14)
3) Move to Ashland. (July 2014)
4) Set up elective rotation for 3rd year (mid-March). [Family Medicine in Bridgeport!] 5) Find a place to live that’s close-ish to my new base site. (May 2014)
6) Move out of apartment and into the shelter/farm!
7) Pass COMLEX I. [YEAHHHHHH. BEST DAY OF MY LIFEEEEE. One of em’, anyway.] 8) Win some kind of award/scholarship to help with livelihood!Ā – yay for scholarships awarded for being nice!
9) Set up 4th-year rotations.
10) Pass OSCE’s. (07/23/14)
11) Pass COMLEXĀ PE. (10/26/2015)
12)Ā Pass COMLEX CE. (07/31/2015)
13)Ā Develop FM Student!
14) Get recommendation letters!

15)Ā Apply to residency programs. (08/2015-09/2015)
16)Ā Get interviews! [16]
17)Ā Match into an awesome residency program! (March 18, 2016) – I matched into my first choice!!!
18) Graduate from medical school. (05/28/16)
19) Move to wherever my residency is – New Jersey! (June 2016)
20)Ā Write articles for The DO.

Budget/Finances

1) Set up a budget so I can live frugally but comfortably while avoiding being in debt forever. Stick to it. [Try to spend < $9000 on rent/living/food/transportation/etc. over 2015-2016.]
2) Continue to keep track of everything I spend.
3) Donate/sell the things I don’t need.
4) Apply for at least 2 other scholarships/awards that I qualify for. [2/2] 5) Cook whenever possible and eat out as little as possible.
6) Set up loan repayment stuffs.

7) For (at least) one month of every year, don’t go out to eat. [3/3]
8) Do an epic cleanse/de-cluttering of my room.

Learning/Hobbies

1) Learn how to do handstand pirouettes.
2) Take another pole workshop. [05/03/14 – Ellen Lovelace’s Pole Flow workshop!] 3)Ā Learn how to curl my hair. (Close enough!)
4) Learn to french braid my hair.
5) Learn one song in Hawaiian.
6) Learn one song in Mandarin. (Painted Heart [ē”»åæƒ], by Jane Zhang)
7)Ā Pole performance for AIDS fundraiser! (02/06/2016)

Travel

1)Ā Go hiking wherever you visit!

2) Go home to visit before study hibernation commences! (May 1-8, 2014)
3) Go home to visit after boards. (July 2014)
4) Visit Davis. (July 2014, March 2016)
[[5) Visit/Help out at PHAC.]] – Not going to be able to do this one! :[
6) Go to a beach.
7)Ā Go home for 4th year!? (December 2015)
8)Ā Visit Asheville.Ā Part 1 | Part 2 (11/06/15-11/07/15) + Part 3
9) Go to Hawai’i! (June 2016)

Family & Friends

1) Tahoe! (June 2016)
2) Cruise to Costa Rica with family! (October 2014)
3) Go back to Lewisburg to visit Linda/Donna/church. [5/5+] 4) Send a care package to someone at least once a year. [3/3]
5) Meet up with Whitney/Becca at least once a year. [1/3] 6) Food adventures/hangouts with supah speshal awsum during my vacations at least once a year. [3+/3] 7) Meet up with Mekala/Sylvia/Elise/Kaitlin at least once a year. [1/3] 8) Visit Trish in Delaware! (August 2015)
9)Ā Visit Baltimore for Monika’s wedding. (August 2015)
10) Visit Linda in Lewisburg! (September 2016)

Purchases

1) Keyboard carrying case [thanks, Jun! <3] 2) Tales of Phantasia
3) Cast iron set [twas a birthday present to self :O ] 4) USB SNES controller
5) Stethoscope

Food/Blog-Related

1) Participate in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2014. (Apple PB Oatmeal Cookie “Dough” Bites)
2) Participate in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2015. (Chocolate Nut Butter Meltaways)
[[3) Participate in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2016.]] – Not going to be able to do this one!
4) Participate in 20 sponsored recipe contests for The Recipe ReDux. [17/20]

5) Submit recipes each month for The Recipe ReDux. [30/33]

6)Ā Make Thai drunken noodles.
7) Make or adapt 10 recipes from pinterest/other food blogs. [10/10]

8) Make at least 10 recipes from Recipe ReDux posts. [4/10]

9) Make Dutch babies (as Trish would say–the food, not a foreign child!).
10) Sweat Pink Ambassadorship
11) FitFluential Ambassadorship
12) Get own domain and import everything there.
13) Attend a blogging conference. [10/17/14-10/19/14 Blog Well Summit (online, but it counts! :P )] 14) Attend at least 1 blogger meetup! [1/1+] 15) Make a facebook page for Fairyburger.
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6) Schedule posts into the future when you have pockets of spare time.

Miscellaneous/Fun

1) Check out the Asian market(!!!) in Ashland.
2) Go paddleboarding. (June 2016)
3) Check out the SDA church in Ashland.
4) Chocolate Festival in Lewisburg. (04/12/14)
5) Go berry-picking.
6) Art festival in Lexington, KY. (08/16/14)
7) Taste of Our Town in Lewisburg, WV. (10/10/15)

Final Three!

1) Put aside $1 for each completed goal and use it to buy something nice.
2) Blog about the things on this list that can be written about.
3) Make another 101 in 1001 list.

Unstarted/Can’t Complete:Ā 4
Ongoing/Continuous:Ā 25
Completed:Ā 72


  • Have you ever made a 101 in 1001 list?
  • If you were to make a 101 in 1001 list, what would you put on your list?
  • Check out my other 101 in 1001 lists here!

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101 in 1001 (2011-2014)

Do you make resolutions every year? For a while now, I’ve been subscribing to 101 in 1001 instead and I think it works a lot better with my life!

Why 1001? Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple goals such as New Year’s resolutions. The key to beating procrastination is to …

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  1. Love this idea! We have a few similar goals….i.e. learning to curl hair!!!
    And if you go to Costa Rica, let me know!! LOVE that country so much! Such a beautiful place! Wish I was living there so often!

    1. Glad I’m not alone on that! :P We’ll get there someday!

      I get to go! I’m tagging along with my parents on a cruise, so we only get to be in Costa Rica for a day, but I’ll definitely take that over nothing! :D! I’ve heard so many good things about that place! :]

  2. Danggg girl, what a (well rounded) list. This is such a great idea – I have my own bucket list too all typed out (Ah the OCD medical student)

    Nice work on tackling your list, one by way. Look forward to seeing you make progress :)
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    1. Thank you! :D I think we all have to be at least a little OCD to be in med school! :P

      I’ll keep chippin’ away at it! I really hope the ones under “Academic/Career” pan out! *-*

  3. Good job on your progress towards your goals!! I always love reading other people’s 101 in 1001 :)

    1. Thank you! :D Hopefully it’ll get thinned out/completed as this/next year progresses! :]

  4. I love these goals! I also LOVE the idea of 101 in 1001 – what an awesome way to cross off your goals! Good luck with it all, sounds like you’ll have so much fun completing all of these! <3
    P.S. Keep my updated on the Thai drunken noodles – they sound AMAZING! X
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    1. Thanks, Holly! It’s definitely a lot of fun, haha, and getting to look back on it to see how much I’ve managed to accomplish doubles as motivation to get the rest done! :]!

      I really need to make those soon! *-*

  5. I love the way you categorized it! I should do that!! ALSO, I really want to try aerial, was it amazing?

    1. Thanks! Aerial silks (and lyra!) are both so, so much fun! I’d definitely recommend it! :] Just make sure you wear long-sleeves and long pants because the fabric burns from the silks can be kinda painful. Let me know what you think!! :D!

  6. I love the idea of this 100 in 1001 concept! A different take on goals/resolutions… maybe I’ll take this up myself!

    1. Yay! If you make one, let me know! I love reading 101 in 1001’s! I’m working on putting together my next one right now since this one ends pretty much at the end of this year!

  7. wow! this is awesome! YOu accomplished so many! I can not comment on your current 101 in 1001 for this year so I decided to comment here

    What a wonderful idea! You always have the best creative things on your blog!

    Thank you

    ps- why are some things written in italics? Just trying to figure out your coding methods )

    1. Thanks so much, Diana! <3! I have no idea what the hecks happened to my newest 101 in 1001 when I posted it but I think I finally fixed it. (Of course this would happen the day I chose to go off the grid, hahaha.)

      The ones in italics are more "continuous" goals that I don't want to just do once, since they're things/habits I want to incorporate consistently into my life! :D!
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  8. Hey Farrah!

    This bucket list is a fantastic idea! One thing that I’ve always wanted to do is to do more travelling around the world. Actually, I haven’t been outside the US and I’m almost terrified to hop on a plane somewhere else. What do you do to overcome your more challenging goals?

    1. Hi! Thank you! :D I hope you get to do some more traveling!

      I break it up into these 101 in 1001s since it feels a lot more feasible with “small” somewhat more short-termgoals vs. a whole bunch of ginormous ones far off into the future!

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