101 Goals in 1001 Days
My Goals for Myself, My Family, and My Home for the Next (almost) 3 Years

A while back, a friend of mine introduced me to the concept of planning out 101 goals to be completed in 1001 days. Since then, I’ve done this twice. I wish I had the very first one I made just out of law school–I have a strong feeling it would look entirely different, as I wrote it as a single woman, without kids, having just started my career, living in a new city. We’re probably taking night and day different.
Typically, “they” say that you want a goal to be S.M.A.R.T.–Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time Bound. I’ve mostly stuck to these rules below, though I’ve tried to mix up both serious and fun, quick and more involved, and several in between. Oh and, while I want to share as much as possible with you, dear reader, some things are not only mind to share or are just too personal for me right now to talk about.
As I finish my goals, I’ll write a post and link to it here. I would LOVE it if you share some of your goals in the comments as well!
Do you have a particular way of outlining your goals? Do you break them into a specific period of time? Into categories? Do you enjoy it as much as me?
Personal Goals:
- Find a robe I like
- Get my nose pierced–no really
- Finish a 90 day exercise program
- Run a 5K
- Run a 10K
- Lose 10 lbs
- Lose 20 lbs
- Lose 30 lbs
- Go blue on WW 30 days straight
- Read 10 fiction books
- Read 10 nonfiction books
- Take a photography class
- Take a girls trip
- Find leather boots I like
- Cook a full meal for hubs
- Make a new wreath
- Make something with my Cricut
- Host a dinner party where I cooked the entire meal
- Learn to braid my own hair
- Private–professional
- Private–professional
Family Goals:
- Write a family mantra
- Make family cookbooks
- Take a family beach vacation
- Take a non-beach vacation
- Go camping with neighbors
- Have a kid-free weekend
- Teach Ethan to ride a bike
- Teach Eli to ride a bike/trike
- Update the baby books
- Stick to the budget for 1 month
- Try 5 new restaurants & write reviews
- Put up grow boards in boys’ rooms
- Complete an entire seasonal bucket list
- Organize a neighborhood food drive
- Date night at local art museums
- Explore the creeks at French Park with the boys
- Smale Park Picnic
- Ride the Ferris Wheel downtown Cincinnati
- Big family pictures
- Pyramid Hill Christmas Lights
- Make sweets for our neighbors
- Host a sit down Friendsgiving
- Sell/donate all baby clothes (18 months and younger)
- Get a dog, or two 🙂
- Make family picture books
- Teach Ethan to write his name
- Start reading Harry Potter with Ethan
- Make a gratitude wreath with the boys
- Meet first financial goal
- Meet second financial goal
Blog Goals:
- Find a theme I like
- Integrate Home Talk
- 1st 1,000 email subscribers
- 10,000 IG followers/swipe feature
- Break even income
- Feature in national publication
- Complete/blog about a One Room Challenge
- Celebrate a blogiversary with a party
- Integrate video
- Start a YouTube Channel
- Publish 50 posts
- Publish 100 posts
- Integrate Pinterest
- Private
- Private
Home Goals:
- Organize the garage
- Powder room refresh or remodel
- Finish Eli’s nursery mural
- Ethan’s room redesign
- Finish garbage can area outside
- Add front step
- Hang chandelier in foyer
- Master closet reorg
- Finish TV cabinet
- Get a new dining room table
- Finish banister painting and staining
- Add rose beds to side of the house
- Add a flower box on side of the house
- Get and install a swing set for the boys
- Add lighting to the back patio
- Master bedroom refresh
- Renovate the laundry room/pantry combo
- Redo the mudroom walls
- Finish painting the interior doors
- Repaint the basement walls
- Add the picture gallery wall down the basement stairs
- Replace the crabapple trees
- Fireplace makeover
- Get new sofas/chairs in living room
- Redo entertainment center int the basement
- Organize Eli’s closet
- Organize and consolidate storage room
- Guest room refresh
- Make bathroom sign
- Fix kitchen ceiling and paint
- Paint upstairs bedroom ceilings
- Master bath refresh
- Find and replace kitchen hardware
- Redo the mudroom/laundry room flooring
- Pressure wash and seal retaining wall