<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484167896445895068</id><updated>2011-04-21T10:46:13.495-07:00</updated><category term='beginning'/><title type='text'>101 Things - 1001 Days</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://101things-1001days.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7484167896445895068/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://101things-1001days.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Just Me</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09539870849141893881</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7484167896445895068.post-383813158790387461</id><published>2008-04-01T20:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-01T20:34:49.828-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beginning'/><title type='text'>The First Step is to Begin...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;101 Things in 1001 Days&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Mission&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; (which I’ve decided to accept): Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" &gt; The Criteria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;: Each task must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and represent some amount of effort on my part.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;[ This is from: &lt;a href="http://triplux.com/dayzero/default.asp?view=masterlist"&gt;http://triplux.com/dayzero/default.asp?view=masterlist &lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;The first step is to begin&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I'm setting this up on April Fool's Day, partially because I defy it to be viewed as a joke, and mostly to challenge myself to Stick With It - for 1001 DAYS!&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Primarily, the timing just works well for me now (generally); it will take me through the end of 2010 (12/28).&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;And then I’ll have a few days grace to decide if this process has worked well enough for me that I should recommit on 1-1-11.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;(I love the look of that date!)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" &gt;So here's to a new beginning!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12;"  &gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7484167896445895068-383813158790387461?l=101things-1001days.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://101things-1001days.blogspot.com/feeds/383813158790387461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7484167896445895068&amp;postID=383813158790387461' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7484167896445895068/posts/default/383813158790387461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7484167896445895068/posts/default/383813158790387461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://101things-1001days.blogspot.com/2008/04/first-step-is-to-begin.html' title='The First Step is to Begin...'/><author><name>Just Me</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09539870849141893881</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
