i’ve been trying to start this list-thingy since i first saw it on someone’s blog a couple of years ago. see, i’m a big fan of putting lists together (i think it’s that gratifying feeling of crossing something off). i took out the goals i thought were too personal to share. and made sure these were all achievable goals. please send me a link to yours, if you have it online. and if you don’t, i encourage you to have a list of goals you can track and accomplish within a time period.
anyway, here’s my list of 101 goals to accomplish in 1001 days, in no particular order. i’ll cross each of them out when i complete each one…and accompany it with a blog post. should be interesting (maybe just to me. lol). yes, my blog is becoming more personal.
start date: october 27th, 2010
end date: july 24th, 2013
(i used this link to do the math)
- Update my website
- Renovate my studio and consultation office
- Read four business books to benefit my business
- Start graduate classes
- Gallery exhibition in Nigeria with fellow artists/photographers
- Visit Australia
Photograph a wedding in NigeriaRebrand WalePhotosVisit India- Marry the woman of my dreams :-)
- Travel with photographer friends
- Take a road trip and stop along several stops to take photos
- Enter photos in print competition
- Take fine art images once a week for a year, plus create a website to display
- Cook a four course meal, from scratch
- Watch a live soccer match in Europe
- Visit 10 U.S. states I have never visited before
- Get a wedding published in a bridal magazine
- See a musical on Broadway in NY
- Create a photo book for my respective siblings and nephews.
- Take a yoga class for a month
- Attend Zack Arias’ workshop
- Go rock climbing
- Blog everyday for an entire month
- Learn to play a full song on my guitar
- Do a ‘Gentleman Quarterly’ type shoot for friends
- Learn to swim
- Take a fun trip with my mom
- Read the entire bible
- Get a new computer
Get an iPad- Publish a book
Take a portrait of every child at my church, Jesus House DCCreate new business cards- Launch new non-photography business with eLGee
- Create unique way of sharing photos with clients
- Work on a farm
- Complete a 365 day photo challenge
- Don’t drink soda for a whole month
- Go sky diving
- Learn to shoot and edit video with my 5D
- Write a short movie
- Make a short film
- Go to a music festival outside of DC area
- Take a photo of myself for a month
- Write a personal mission statement
- Take flying lessons
- Helicopter ride, anywhere in the U.S.
- Take a vacation without phone or a computer
- Buy a BMW
- Photograph a “birth story”
- Manage my time effectively/get organized
- Have my own photo professionally taken
- Buy a house
- Print marketing materials for Wale Photos
- Attend a leadership conference
- Hire a Wale Photos employee
- Do an underwater photo shoot (I should learn to swim first. Lol)
- Get floor seats to a basketball game
- Join toastmasters
- Use new online management system, effectively (going green!)
- Organize my music collection
- Learn to DJ
- Visit Israel
- Implement a unique photo booth package
- Shoot a personal project with a few rolls of film, and develop them myself
- Visit Alaska
- Launch a fine art website (shutterchance??)
- Write the story of my mom’s life (or get someone to write it)
- Learn basic French
- Take 10 portraits of 10 strangers on the same day (on the street)
- Go to Carnival at Rio de Janeiro
- Bungee Jump
- Start a watch collection
- Attend a film premiere
- Be a vegetarian for 14 days
- Take a bike ride around the city
- Write a budget (for business and personal)
- Visit 25 different restaurants that I’ve never been before (take pics)
- Watch every episode of Mad Men
- Learn to juggle
- Learn to play chess
- Start playing golf
- Get new glasses
- Be a DC tourist for a weekend
- Visit BMW factory in Germany
- Skinny Dip (there’ll be no pictures. for your own safety.)
- Go to ten (10) live concerts (all good seats)
- Write a will
- Watch a sunset and sunrise on the same day.
- Buy a tuxedo (and hopefully start going to events that require one…hello, president obama)
- Buy a new DSLR (I love the 5d mark II so much, but already plan on buying whatever the next upgrade is)
- Volunteer 101 hours of my time
- Interview 10 people that I admire
- No TV for a week! (anything longer would be uncivilized)
- A brand new custom designed blog
- Horse riding (I feel like it’s the most overrated thing ever…but I must try it before I knock it)
- Visit New Zealand
- Start the macro-art photo project
- Start a free online magazine
- Run 10k (let’s be real…I don’t see myself doing a marathon)
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