{101 things}

just after the new year, i began compiling a list of 101 things i would like to accomplish in the next 3-5 years. it was a really interesting exercise, and a lot harder than i thought it would be. but the end result was a little insight into what is important to me. what are the things i want to achieve in the next few years? from the giant toybox, that is our universe, what do i want to play with? what do i instinctively reach for. to touch. feel. see. do?

and it gives me focus. a reminder of my dreams. so if i ever falter, and lose my way, i can come here and find a signpost to lead me on track again...

1. start and complete an art journal
2. make calendars with my photographs for christmas presents
3. go away on a girls weekend
4. set up a mobile photography studio
5. learn to sew
6. have a feather down farm holiday
7. have a space date with cam
8. make all cards and gifts for one year
9. bake a birthday cake
10. make and fill a recipe book of my favourites (with pictures)
11. go to a photo exhibition in london
12. bake cookies
13. sew a pair of curtains
14. complete a 12 week yoga course
15. complete our australia scrapbook
16. take a photo every day for 365 days
17. take part in the 29 day giving challenge
18. take pictures at a british seaside
19. do a sponsored run
20. have a family photo session
21. revisit paris
22. go on a spa retreat
23. go to prague
24. drive to switzerland
25. be published
26. have a midnight picnic in a boat in the middle of a lake
27. read the tarot
28. go to athens
29. visit ronnie in belgium
30. renew our wedding vows on the beach
31. start and complete a gratitude journal
32. write love letters to 10 friends
33. read women who run with the wolves
34. make a set of postcards from my pictures
35. paint our portrait and hang it up
36. dress up in 50s style and have a photo shoot
37. do a burlesque class
38. learn to belly dance
39. get my nose pierced
40. go on a womens creative retreat
41. sleep under the stars
42. see the northern lights
43. have a belfast sink
44. own a claw foot bath
45. be able to do the sun salutation without thinking
46. journal everyday for a month
47. play with a vintage camera
48. complete street dogs project
49. see the grand canyon
50. find a mentor/coach
51. drive across america
52. learn to salsa
53. salsa dance in cuba
54. join a book group and go
55. have dinner at gees
56. read ten new authors
57. go on a dog days out
58. stand up for what i believe in and go on a protest
59. learn french
60. buy a type 2 camper automatic
61. write a book
62. run a creative workshop
63. exhibit my pictures
64. explore western australia
65. photograph 101 dogs
66. rebrand dogtales and dreams
67. launch mcKinley-rodgers photography
68. become a certified life coach
69. open an etsy shop
70. run an online workshop
71. organise my wardrobe
72. learn spanish
73. photograph 50 weddings
74. moonwalk
75. complete a photography workshop
76. enter a photography competition
77. find a wingback chair
78. visit the lake district
79. camper van around Scotland
80. revist Mary Coulter Hotel and our tree
81. pick wildflowers for the table
82. grow my own herbs
83. whale watching
84. buy/build a eco-home
85. organise my photographs (and back up!)
86. read the paper every day for a week
87. go one week without the internet
88. stay in a water cottage at the misool eco resort
89. scrapbook our wedding
90. learn sign language
91. swim with a beluga whale
92. walk the inca trail
93. dance in the rain
94. watch the sun rise with cam
95. meditate for 10 minutes every day for a week
96. revisit soul coaching
97. qualify as a counsellor
98. write a page a day for one month
99. wear plaits in my hair
100. go on a canal boat holiday
101. visit mrs lee's daffodil garden