It has been almost 6 months exactly since I posted my 101 Goals in 1001 days list. I thought it would be a fun time to reflect back and see what has transpired and it was absolutely amazing to see actually how far I’ve come. Over the past 180 days I have actually crossed off 10 goals off of my list. Some of them easy but some of them were actually pretty difficult. One of the major themes I noticed was God’s overwhelming faithfulness. There were goals on here that I wrote down and SERIOUSLY never thought would come to pass and just a few months later they either have, or are very close to coming to fruition.
Just in case you wanted to follow me along in this journey I have highlighted the completed goals in teal and added notes in gray to the ones that I’ve made progress on. Thanks for all of your support… enjoy the read!
1. Ice skate in Rockfeller Center
2. See the Grand Canyon
3. Ride in a helicopter
4. Take a ride on a zip line
5. Start a non-profit organization
6. Tour Napa
7. Take my kids to Disneyland
8. Shoot a wedding in Santorini Greece
9. Teach my kids how to ride a bike without training wheels YESSSS!!!! Ava just learned how to ride her bike last month… no more training wheels for our big girl!
10. Go to a Mike Colon workshop
11. Buy my husband a seriously sweet gift (that one’s gotta stay a secret)
12. Move to the country
13. Get solar power
I know, I know, but I hate electric bills!
14. Make a trip to the East Coast to visit my amazing sister-in-law ( If you live on the East Coast and need a photographer for your wedding let me know! )
15. Put on a women’s photography retreat once a year, just for Moms. We are now doing monthly photography retreats for women… cool thing is they are open to all of God’s daughters not just the Mama’s… I’m so blessed by God’s faithfulness.
16. Break past my fear of public speaking….scary thing is, this probably means actually speaking. Uh…well…. you could say that came true… We are now speaking in at least one photography meetup a month through next March… that goal didn’t exactly go as planned! The Lord sometimes has ways of tricking us into our destinies
17. Ride a vespa, an aqua one.
18. Make a snowman larger than me
19. Go to a Lobster Festival in Maine
20. Give someone encouragement every day
21. See a Broadway play…(doesn’t have to be in NY, maybe on tour)
22. Ride in a horse-led sleigh in the snow with warm apple cider and my love ( we did go on a horse drawn carriage ride in Nashville with our friends Eugene & Heather but it was not snowing )
23. Go back to where it all began…. trumania, aka Seaside, Florida where Isaac proposed
24. Shoot a wedding or fashion bridal shoot at the Boston Public Library…uh, twitterpated.
25. Do 2 blog posts a week for 2 months straight! AHHH
26. Help make someone’s dream come true (if you have a dream that I could help with, comment below, I’d LOVE to help)
27. Go to San Diego Zoo lights with the kids
28. Rock out to Beach Boys’ California Girls in a convertible while in California with a bunch of girls.
29. Go skiing with the kids
30. Make a photo/video documentary of a day in the life of my hottie firefighter hubby…. wish that could be every day!
31. Do a photo shoot with vintage planes & one at my secret muse location
32. Photograph a Military homecoming
33. Go on at least 1 dress-up night-out date with my Hubby a month.
34. Start a young married’s ministry at our church, if that’s God’s plan for us
35. Drive across the Golden Gate Bridge
36. Play one, and ONLY one slot in Vegas!
37. Have a Christmas tree in every room of the house. One being pink. And one being Charlie Brown’s.
38. Spend an ENTIRE day by a pool getting food and drinks brought to me constantly by a man named Charles. (His name was Ermando, but I think it counts…)
39. Claim my ground in Cabo. (Ryan & Susan, that one’s for you) done and done…
40. Shoot a Tiffany inspired wedding…oh I swoon!
41. Buy a Vacation house in Sunriver or Scottsdale
42. Make a cameo of my kids for their walls.
43. Travel the road to Hana and walk through the bamboo forest and the seven sacred pools in Maui (inspired by Emily, Lisa & Michelle!)
44. Invent something pretty, fun and useful
45. Say “I love you” every day to the people that mean the most to me ( so far so good
46. Go to a professional sporting event….We have lousy pro sports in Oregon….whine…
47. Float the Deschutes River into the Old Mill District
48. Find 3 People a year to TRULY sow into and mentor as a wife & business owner (LOVE this…and SO excited it has come true. My ladies know who they are
49. Schedule a girls night out, every other month, and stick to it.
50. Host an ugly Christmas sweater party
51. Get published in 3 Magazines
52. Get published in 10 Blogs a year
53. Be asked to do a Guest Blog post (YES!!! Thank you Becky Hart! Did this last week for Bowties & Bliss)
54. Make shopping the night of Thanksgiving with my ladies an annual tradition
55. Talk a company into giving me their super fab window display when they are done
56. Buy a chandelier for my office
57. Get amazing pictures of me and my hubby together. He’s a little camera-phobic and I’d love to have new photos!
58. Have a Karaoke contest with my daughter in our PJ’s and video tape it
59. Finish my long-lost video projects
60. Stand at the Four Corners and be in 4 states at once
61. Go to Ellis Island and see the Statue of Liberty
62. Secretly leave the 12 Days of Christmas gifts on somebody’s doorstep
63. Rent a hotel room by myself, stay in my pj’s, get room service and have a movie/magazine marathon. Just once.
64. Go to the shooting range with my Hubby
65. Buy a hot tub
66. Be at peace with God’s call on our lives. (definitely getting there)
67. Set an entire tablescape up in the middle of a field and have a picnic with my family
68. Have lip gloss in every jacket and in every purse I own
69. Visit my grandparents 3 times a year
70. Take a train ride
71. Take a ferry ride
72. Be close enough at Sea World to get wet
73. Buy a pair of over the knee boots and rock them out in this small town
74. Sing a song shamelessly every day (Well duh… DO THIS ALWAYS!)
75. Never go to bed angry
76. Schedule a day out with just me and my Mom (no kids or hubs) at least once a year
77. Patch things up with family members that we haven’t seen in a while
78. Buy new socks
79. Go through my closet and donate everything I haven’t worn in a year (This may be the toughest one on the list.)(Update… halfway there…still things I can’t part with!)
80. Tell people about Jesus. Boldy.
81. Don’t cut my hair more than the necessary trim… ( I have a serious problem when you combine boredom and scissors)
82. Build an outdoor movie theater in my backyard fully equipped with vintage popcorn machine and real furniture
83. Throw many parties around this concept
84. Sleep under the stars (went camping last weekend… does it count if there was a tent between us?)
85. Take Salsa lessons with my husband
86. Watch the sunset from a kayak in the arms of my love
87. Go to the farm once a week to buy fresh produce in the summer ( well…. we went last week… better make it a point this week!)
88. Attend WPPI at least 2 out of the next 3 years ( 1 year down…only one left!)
89. Help another photographer start their own business
90. Take my daughter on a very girly overnight date every fall. Complete with shopping, manicures and shirley temples
91. Send all of my contracts in the mail
92. Go through and organize the pile of junk that I have tried to hide under my bed ( CHECK!!!! I JUST did this last week June 20th!)
93. Design a really beautiful workspace
94. Clean out my inbox and find an effective way to organize it (YAY!!!! My inbox is now full of several hundred labeled folders and I clean it out to the best of my ability every day!
95. Pray for those who’ve hurt me to be blessed ( this may be the toughest one on the list but I have been challenging myself to do it)
96. Second shoot for Mike Colon…. I know, also crazy, but true.
97. Go on a Ferris Wheel
98. Conquer my fear of heights with a hot air balloon ride
99. Collaborate with Zach and Jody Gray on something Epic ( I know this is far fetched but I love their drive, creativity and passion for the Lord. I want to be surrounded with people like that)
100. Work out 3 times a week for a month straight
101. Love hard every day.
This has been such a fun list to reflect on. I sit here seriously in awe of all that has happened. Consider this my dare…. I triple dog dare you to make your own 101 goals in 1001 days list. And more than that, keep up with it. Take it out every few months and see just how far you really have come. Keep in mind… Dreams are not measurable. Write down things that can be measured and crossed off. You can’t really cross off a dream… it just keeps growing…
If you make a list… please post a link to it here…I’d love to read it!!!
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