1. To travel to twenty different countries before I am 30 (6 to go!)
2. To update my blog everyday for a month COMPLETED - 2008
3. Learn Yoga
4. To learn a second language (preferably Mandarin)
5. Buy my own house and then spend time making it into exactly what I want
6. To go to the gym at least four times a week for four weeks
7. Make a photo book of my travel photography
8. To get my Advanced Open Water Scuba Diving Certificate
9. Get a dog
10. Learn to listen better
11. To travel to Japan again
12. To learn how to ride a motorbike
13. Swim with a dolphin
14. Learn how to complain effectively
15. Volunteer for a good cause
16. To put my photography and others up on my walls at home
17. To learn a instrument
18. To photograph someone famous and to be paid for it!
19. Be debt free COMPLETED - JAN 2008
20. Win an award COMPLETED - 7 MAR 2008
21. To fly first class
22. Throw a dart on a map and go to where it lands
23. Send a message in a bottle
24. To do a massage course
25. Legally change my name
26. Drive across America in a convertible
27. To take a photo on my birthday this year COMPLETED - JULY 2008
28. Teach a course part-time
29. To ride on a gondola in Venice
30. To laugh until I cry
31. Listen to the Dalai Lama speak
32. Have my own vegetable garden
33. To own my own studio / office space
34. To drive around Australia
35. To photograph a destination wedding COMPLETED - AUG 2008
36. Learn to ski or snowboard
37. To be a mother
38. To get married
39. To mentor a young photographer
40. Witness a miracle
41. To experience what no gravity feels like
42. To smile more
43. To camp on a beach again
44. To travel to another country by myself COMPLETED - AUGUST 2008
45. Skydive
46. To take my parents out for dinner at a really nice restaurant COMPLETED - MARCH 2008
47. Accept myself for who I am
48. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it
49. Understand the stock market
50. To not complain once for 21 days
51. Give blood
52. Spend three months getting my body into optimum shape
53. To write a to-do list each night and achieve everything on it the next day for a month
54. To own a digital medium format camera
55. To read at least 50 books a year
Books I have read so far:
- The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris (I highly recommend this book to anyone who is self employed or wanting to be in the near future)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnagie
- Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
- The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
- Dr Gillian McKeith’s Ultimate Health Plan by Dr Gillian McKeith
- Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
56. Go skinny-dipping at midnight
57. Go up in a hot-air balloon
58. Go dancing in the pouring rain
59. Run 10km
60. To get a tattoo
61. To live my life caffeine free
62. Get a Master’s degree
63. To travel to the USA for WPPI COMPLETED - Ticket booked Oct 2008
64. Earn, save, and invest enough money to retire comfortably by age 55
65. To not talk for a entire day
66. To teach photography to high school kids
67. Build my own home and have it exactly how I want it
68. Get acupuncture
69. Engage in a large food fight
70. Surprise someone
71. Learn how to draw
72. Be able to do the splits
73. Be a bridesmaid
74. To have a photograph by Max Pam on my wall
75. To have a photograph by Richard Avedon on my wall
76. Read one book per month for six months to benefit my business COMPLETED - Oct 2008
- The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris (I highly recommend this book to anyone who is self employed or wanting to be in the near future)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnagie
- Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders
- The Likeability Factor by Tim Sanders
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
77. To inspire someone to become a photographer COMPLETED - 2008 (somebody emailed saying I could check this off :)
78. Stop caring what others think
79. Save someones life
80. To make a snowman
81. Adopt a child
82. To get to my target weight
83. Watch no TV for a week
84. To meet my photography idols COMPLETED - Aug 2008
85. To have an exhibition of my work every year
86. Befriend an enemy
87. Give something that is important to me to another person
88. To go rock climbing
89. Make dinner for my whole family COMPLETED - September 2008
90. To have one of my photos in the National Portrait Gallery
91. To have an exhibition overseas
92. Do the Trans Siberian train journey
93. Volunteer for a good cause overseas
94. Sleep under the stars
95. To go to musical festival overseas
96. Go to Antarctica
97. To have 3 kids
98. To live overseas with my children for a year
99. To learn more about Buddhism
100 .To become a master of photography
101. Become a vegan (attempted it in 07/08 but didnt work out!)
3 . October . 07 at 1:59 pm
Dear Samantha
Have a few queries regarding this list, namely:
#12, #25, #60, #56 - i don’t think so
and i would hope that #37 and #38 would occur the other way around.
Good luck with #61
And more priority should be given to #46 and #89.
Mum
27 . February . 08 at 4:57 am
lol… i’ve already legally changed my name and I would also like to go to japan again. Cool list. Mine’s pretty similar except that I’ve been planning a backpacking/photography trip through south america which should be pretty cool and i’ll have to substitute fatherhood for motherhood.
26 . March . 08 at 10:02 pm
Hello… Ok so I randomly stumbeled across your website while looking to research landscape photographers for my college project (in college for photography) Dont know how on earth I ended up on this page nor seeing your list of 101s, suppose its fate. Just wanted you to know that your wedding photography is absolutly breath-taking. Im getting married next summer 2009 in Laguna Beach California (my hometown, yet currently living in England) You would be my dream photogrpaher…Would this count as number #35? Also, as for #39, where do I apply? Ha Ha…. Cheers on your work, absolutly inspirational. Also I know Im suppose to be commenting on your 101s so here goes… Sounds a lot like my list, and as the book “The Secret” says, its essential to write down your dreams and visulize them every day and only through that, you can accomplish them all. X