Sleepy Lisa.

Happy New Year! Its 2007, a year that I expect to be extra special (I am turning 30 after all). Rather than create New Year’s Resolutions, which generally don’t get a second glance from me after the second week of January, this year I’m creating an “Uberlist”. Nikol introduced me to the “Uberlist” concept - a list of approximately 100 “to-dos” for the year (this year the number is 107 for 2007). The purpose of the Uberlist is to write down all the big and little things I’d like to accomplish in the coming year - with the understanding that I will likely not cross off all of them by year end (50% is considered very good). This exercise was challenging but after completing it, I feel like I have a better grasp of what my priorities are for 2007. I’m looking forward to what the year will bring.

“My 2007 Uberlist”

1. Professional - Find a job that I will really enjoy
2. Professional - Gather my references
3. Professional – Freelance
4. Professional - Attend an industry conference
5. Professional - Join a professional organization and practice networking
6. Professional - Build fischerwolf.com using CSS
7. Professional - Launch fischerwolf.com
8. Professional - Write my e-book on event marcom
9. Professional - Organize, re-build, and post marketing templates
10. Professional – Gather best practices in marketing metrics
11. Professional - Learn Illustrator
12. Professional - Learn Flash
13. Professional - Learn JavaScript
14. Professional - Build on existing PhotoShop & InDesign skills
15. Professional – Re-learn statistics
16. Professional - Dress for the job I want, not the job I have
17. Professional - Study for the GMAT
18. Professional - Take the GMAT
19. Professional - Read five books from the Personal MBA list
20. Professional - Spend less time doing research and more time actually doing
21. Personal - Be better at responding to phone calls and emails
22. Personal - Read GTD and implement it – at work and at home
23. Personal - Volunteer
24. Personal - Look forward to turning 30
25. Personal - Stop being afraid to start new things
26. Personal - Work on not comparing self to others
27. Personal - Confidential
28. Personal - Get a new haircut
29. Personal - Change name on last two remaining credit cards
30. Personal - Use my perfumes instead of just looking at them
31. Personal - Work on having a positive attitude when doing things I’d rather not be doing
32. Personal - Curtail the cursing, especially when driving and when playing Super Mario Brothers
33. Personal - Self-advocate
34. Personal - See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil
35. Health - Get back on a regular sleep schedule
36. Health - Learn relaxation techniques
37. Health – Start a weekly weight lifting routine
38. Health – Get back to running and enter a race
39. Health - Start yoga again
40. Health - Stretch every day
41. Health - Fix my bike or get a new one, then use it weekly
42. Health - Eat more fruits and vegetables
43. Health - Eat healthy treats instead of junk food
44. Health - Eat breakfast
45. Health - Stop eating when I’m full
46. Health - Drink more water
47. Health - Take my vitamins daily
48. Health - Use Listerine at least four times a week
49. Health - Use sunscreen all over, not just face
50. Hobbies - Knit for others more often
51. Hobbies - Knit a sweater for Gord
52. Hobbies - Write out patterns for sweater designs
53. Hobbies - Participate in a knitalong
54. Hobbies - Buy a yarn winder
55. Hobbies - Use up 50% of my yarn stash before buying new yarn
56. Hobbies - Learn to use the serger
57. Hobbies - Sew knitting needle case
58. Hobbies - Sew case for Nintendo DS
59. Hobbies - Blog more than once a week
60. Hobbies - Stop feeling guilty about not reading every blog post in my RSS feeder
61. Hobbies - Fix my photo page on Sleepy Lisa
62. Hobbies - Take more photos
63. Hobbies - Finish uploading old photos to Flickr
64. Hobbies - Scan and upload paper photos – using Dig My Pics?
65. Hobbies - Finally make iPhoto wedding album
66. Hobbies - Develop film in underwater camera
67. Hobbies - Learn screen-printing
68. Hobbies - Learn about real estate as currently have no clue
69. Domestic - Buy new underwear
70. Domestic - Mail Xmas cards on time
71. Domestic - Get car check up
72. Domestic - Get a new pair of glasses
73. Domestic - Wash the vacuum filter
74. Domestic - Keep accrued library fees under $5.00
75. Domestic - Keep desk organized
76. Domestic - Purge old clothes before buying new ones
77. Domestic - Dust twice a month
78. Domestic - Purge and organize toiletries
79. Domestic - Buy a king size bed
80. Domestic - Use, not lose, my store coupons
81. Domestic - Recycle
82. Domestic - Learn to make full Punjabi dinner
83. Domestic - Cook using my new cookbooks
84. Domestic - Sell/donate botched wedding dress
85. Domestic - Organize computer files
86. Domestic - Get a new computer
87. Domestic - Back up computer 2 times a month as 4-year-old computer might possibly die
88. Domestic - Make list of essential applications for future new computer
89. Domestic - Water the plant on a schedule not just when it starts to droop
90. Domestic - Create a master list of magazine subscriptions and record account info
91. Culture - Listen to the music on my iPod instead of just buying more and forgetting about it
92. Culture - Listen to the podcasts on my iPod instead of just downloading more and forgetting about them
93. Culture - Read my magazines instead of stockpiling
94. Culture - Read the books I own before buying new ones
95. Culture - Take a class on something I want to learn about
96. Culture - Indulge my wandering gypsy side
97. Culture - Visit the Kansas State Capital building
98. Culture - Visit the Brown v. Board of Education site
99. Culture - Visit NYC
100. Culture - Visit California
101. Culture - See the Grand Canyon
102. Culture - Tour a winery
103. Culture - Go on a camping trip
104. Culture - Renew my passport
105. Culture - Go roller-skating
106. Culture - Learn to solve a Rubik’s Cube
107. Culture - Beat Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo DS