There’s a lot I aspire to fit into my day. It’s actually ridiculous to expect I can do it all, but ideally, I’d like to do each of these activities on a daily basis.

• Exercise, currently cardio.
• Train in the martial arts (Can be combined with the above.)
• Train in the sword. (Can be combined with the above.)
• Meditate. (Can be combined with the above.)
• Spend 5-15 minutes sitting down and enjoying nature and the world around me.
• Sleep 8 hours a night.
• Eat two servings of fruit.
• Do something for leisure: Either reading for 30m, playing a game for 1h, watching one episode of a series, or watching a movie.

UPDATED 25/11/2014. Good to see that I’ve crossed off some of these items. Also interesting to see that I more-or-less have the same financial goals nearly four years later.

• Trip to Japan after uni – $5000? (very highly ambitious. I think it came to around $3.5k or so for three weeks. I really can’t remember.)
• A Japanese tutor
• A house or apartment for Beth and I
• Paying off my HECS debt – $10 000+
• A potential holiday to England and Europe with Eugene for my 21st – $2000-4000
• A potential holiday to Melbourne with Beth – $2000?
• A hopeful holiday to Italy
• A very sincerely planned holiday to Singapore with Beth – $2000?
• An iaito (~$500) (it was $700)
• A shinken

• Killer Instinct (N64)
• Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie (N64, or Xbox Live)
• The Sly series
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (2010)
• The Professor Layton series (except the first one)
• Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and its sequel
• Devil May Cry HD collection (1, 2 and 3) (PS3)
• Gears of War 2 + 3
• Batman: Arkham City
• Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions
• Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny
• The No More Heroes series (Wii)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Donkey Kong Country Returns
• Metroid: Other M (Wii)
• Fallout: New Vegas (PS3)
• Playstation Move starter kit
• Your Shape: Fitness Evolved (Kinect, Xbox 360)
• Samurai Warriors Chronicles (3DS)
• The Sims 3 (PC or PS3)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (DS)
• Child of Eden (Xbox Kinect, if I have one, or PS3)
• From Dust (Xbox 360)

Okay, so it turns out the 101 in 1001 thing has a name: Day Zero Project. A few friends of mine have recently started up their own Day Zero Projects, and although the thought of waiting another 1001 days to finish another list is daunting, I do kind of miss having those goals to cross off my list of life.

So here’s what I’ll do. I’ll make a list, as long as I want it to be. Doesn’t need to be 101, but that’s the aim if I can get to it. Just things that I want to work towards over the next three years or so. Let’s see how it goes!

• Go on holiday for a week with Bethi.
• Go to Japan and train in a dojo there.
• Go snowboarding.
• Go skydiving.
• Participate in a parkour lesson.
• Enter a marathon.
• Practice tameshigeri.
• Pass 20 games.
  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
  • Pokémon Snap
  • Perfect Dark Zero
  • Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
  • Mass Effect 2
  • Puzzle Quest 2
  • Dead or Alive: Dimensions
  • Raskulls
  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
  • Runespell Overture
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
  • Fat Princess: A Fistful of Cake
  • UFC Undisputed 2009
  • Okami (at last!)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
  • Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
  • Jetpack Joyride
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
  • Half-life 2
• Donate blood.
• Read (or skim read) the childcraft books.
• Be vegan for at least one week straight.
• Meditate or have reflection time every day for at least a month. (Yes!!)
• Do the Wii Fit test every day for a month.
• Write a letter.
• Leave an anonymous letter or note to cheer someone up.
• Don’t complain about anything for a week.
• Stay up all night.
• Score over 9000 in the Dragon Punch machine.
• Break a coconut with a single punch or strike.
• Go camping.
• Go paintballing.
• Participate in a lesson of capoeira.
• Participate in a lesson of a grappling art like BJJ.
• Get into a full contact fight.
• Watch Karas.
• Watch season 1 of “24”.
• Watch a full season of Futurama.
• Participate in a lesson of aikido
• Watch all episodes of D-Gray Man.
• Watch the cult classic Seven Samurai.
• Sit an IQ test.
• Make a new friend. (Ashley/Rainbow)
• Learn to juggle pins.
• Walk on stilts.
• Ride 200m on my ess board without stopping.
• Watch a sunrise with a friend. (Thank you, Mandy, for one of the most treasured conversations I’ve ever had.)
• Study 5 non-fiction books for the pleasure of learning.
  • “Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls”, edited by Melinda Tankard Reist
  • “The Art of Happiness”, by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler
  • “You Can Heal Your Life”, by Louise Hay
  • “Teach Yourself to Meditate” by Eric Harrison
• Read 20 fiction books for the pleasure of reading.
  • “The Emperor of Nihon-Ja”, by John Flanagan (Ranger’s Apprentice, Book #10)
  • “Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together”, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • “Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe”, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
  • “The Hunger Games”, by Suzan Collins
  • “The Warrior’s Apprentice”, by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • “Obernewtyn”, by Isobelle Carmody
  • “The Farseekers”, by Isobelle Carmody
  • “Ashling”, by Isobelle Carmody
  • “Brisingr”, by Christopher Paolini (one of the only books I’ve ever read twice)
  • “A Game of Thrones”, by George R. R. Martin
  • “Inheritance”, by Christopher Paolini (SO SATISFYING)
  • “A Clash of Kings”, by George R. R. Martin
  • “Star Wars Episode 1 Adventures: The Fury of Darth Maul”, by Ryder Windham
  • “Star Wars Jedi Apprentice #2: The Dark Rival” by Jude Watson
  • “Way of the Peaceful Warrior”, by Dan Millman
  • “Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior”, by Dan Millman
  • “The Three Musketeers”, by Alexandre Dumas
  • “The Man in the Iron Mask”, by Alexandre Dumas
  • “A Storm of Swords”, by George R. R. Martin
  • “Brotherband”, by John Flanagan
• Learn to ice skate backwards.
• Attend the midnight premier of a movie.
• Volunteer
• Go rockclimbing.
• Be a mentor.
• Become an assistant instructor at a martial school.
• Fly a kite.
• Spend all day playing video games.
• Spend a day naked. (Or, alternatively, in my PJ’s or underwear.)
• Go for a day without speaking.
• Earn my black belt in karate.
• Attend a birthday party.
• Learn another poem by heart.
• Write a short story.
• Draw a picture.
• Have a candlelight dinner.
• Go barefoot for a day.
• Make bread (or damper) from scratch.
• Use Dictionary.com’s word of the day every day for a week.
• Pay for the person behind me.
• Move out of home.
• Identify 101  things that make me happy.
• Get a job related to social work.
• Get 4 High Distinctions in a row. Or, if I choose to, four less-than distinctions.
• Start learning Japanese, Spanish or Italian.
• Plant a tree.
• 100% a game.
• Go on a martial-arts based training camp (or any training course over a few days).
• Do 10 consecutive chin-ups.
• Go to a concert.
• Pay for everything in cash for one month.
• Learn Morse Code.
• Learn Braille.
• Seriously start working out/going to a gym.
• Walk somewhere that takes more than an hour to reach on foot.
• Collect all the current gen consoles.
• Pray every day for one month.
• Get and read all the Animorph’s books.
• Re-read the Rurouni Kenshin manga.
• Attend a movie marathon.
• Read all of Eric Van Lustbader’s “Nicholas Linnear” novels.
• Join another volunteer organisation.
• Go for a night time walk/jog.
• Go on a double date.
• Wear matching outfits with Bethwyn, or get matching jewellery.
• Be early to every appointment for a week.
• Go without my phone for three days.
• Go without a car for a week.
• Sign up to a dancing class.
• Try a tai chi class (hopefully with my mother).
• Gamble with real money.
• Buy a game the day it comes out.
• Legitimately use an ukemi outside of practice.
• Participate in another lesson of Wing Chun.
• Learn how to use a semi-automatic weapon.
• Go on a pilgrimage.
• Plant a seed and raise it to a seedling.
• Spoon without arm discomfort.
• Rip a phone book in half.
• Estimate remaining daylight.
• Cast shadow puppets.
• Play with soft toys.
• Ride a bike somewhere.
• Learn how to use a jian.

It’s not complete yet, because I know there are things I want to do which I haven’t listed here. I guess they’ll come in time. For now, no set date or incentives other than the pleasure of pursuing my goals. Let’s see where this goes!

EDIT: All righty, the list is about 100 items long, and all of them are things I want to do. Some moreso than others, but rather than replacing them I’m just going to extend my list for as long as it happens to grow. I will try and set a goal date though: Perhaps 1001 days from now will be as good a time as any. Very well then! I am to cross off every item on this list by August 16th, 2013. Let’s begin :D