100 Tasks in 100 Days

Oh what a great big lead-heavy funk I find myself in sometimes! You can relate I'm sure - sitting at your work desk, daydreaming of freedom and trying to come up with a new shade of blue to describe the cloudless sky; fantasizing about doing cartwheels in the company lawn. However, a thin sheet of despair slowly falls over you while you look at your bank statement online and realize that there is no wiggle room in your account to support that mini vacation you so desperately need. I have found myself in this state of mind lately.

So, what's a girl to do when she is hustling like a broke pimp with big dreams after her regular 9 to 5 and she still doesn't seem to be getting far as her ambitions outweigh the hours of the day? I'm not sure exactly, but this is what I've done - I've managed to come up with a "to-do" list so expansive and so ambitious that I won't have time to reminisce about my summer high school days in between talks with clients. I call it my "100 in 100."

In essence, I've listed 100 things I would like to see happen, and things I've been meaning to get around to, and I only have 100 days to get it all done. It's my ultimate checklist, yet, its completely separate from my normal to-do list I create daily. Sounds easy enough right? All I have to do is get one item checked off the list each day. Not quite. This list contains some of those simple little tasks that I've been procrastinating about, like taking down my clock that hasn't shown the right time in over a year; but it also lists things like, write a new volume of poetry and get interviewed in a newspaper. Not so easy now, is it?

Currently, I'm at a 90 day count down, and it's amazing what you can accomplish in 10 days. Even more interesting is that although I still have plenty of time, a slippery panic is starting to creep up on me. Oh, I know it's a self-imposed goal, but I can't help but to take it very seriously. Besides, if I can't take my own goals seriously, how can I expect anyone else to? I have some pretty hefty tasks to fulfill so my strategy to knock it out is to, not just accomplish one task a day, but also work towards three others at the same time. There's no way I can see getting everything done otherwise.

This is what one may consider, burning a candle at both ends, because I don't get to take a break from being a mother, and I still have to drag myself out of bed to make it to my job, but honestly, my hope is that after these 100 days of hyper-ambition will put me in a position to where maybe my shoulders won't have to sag over the state of my bank account, and that my mini vacation can be upgraded to maximum relief.