Observations

Despite so many of my tasks being easy, I find myself a couple weeks in with only three things crossed out.  I feel better about it since I have so many things "In Progress" but man, I thought I would be like 10-20% done by now.  Strange because I've been working on it every day and none of the tasks are particularly challenging.  Good thing I have 988 days left.
So far I have been pretty motivated by this whole project.  I have been in fairly good spirits and tend to bounce back from my low points pretty well.  Which may or may not be relevant at all.  Definitely I have found myself less bored and less lazy?  Lazy is not really the right word so let me try to explain.

Let's say it's Sunday.  I spent all day Saturday hanging out with people doing fun things until late hours of the night so I've permitted myself to sleep in (until 9ish but usually not past 10).  I roll out of bed and take a shower, my roommate is probably not out of bed yet so I find myself something in the fridge to munch on and watch tv or catch up on the facebooks.  Roommate wakes up, we sit around for a while.  He showers and makes coffee.  We sit around drinking coffee.  I think about what to make for lunch and dinner.  Still watching tv or reading or something dumb.  Pretty soon it's like 2pm and I've managed to shower, dress myself, drink a cup of coffee, and if I'm really on top of things I've done the dishes.  I still have laundry to do because I only have enough work clothes to get through the week (I hate work clothes) and I still have to go buy groceries so I can cook whatever I decided lunch and dinner was.  Lately my roommate has been picking salads to make for weekday lunches.  This is awesome because he makes a big batch on Sunday and we just have to scoop out what we want in the morning and now there's no more scrambling to throw together a lunch and make it out the door in the morning.

Actually maybe having lunches in advance is what is helping me be more on top of things.  It lines up pretty well.

Anyway, pre-project I would usually spend the majority of the afternoon thinking about what to make for dinner and then going to the store and then cooking.  Then I'd do my laundry at the last minute and go to bed having accomplished almost nothing, basically only the essentials.  Now when I'm bored like this I look at my list and pick something.  I have lazy things I can do (reading, playing okami) and more challenging things (making a souffle).  I have things that require planning (tea party, dinner party) and things that I can make progress on in only a few minutes (freerice, push ups, walking).  My list has such a diverse list of activities that I can fit something in to my day every day.  I don't think there has been one day where I have not made any progress at all.  If I have done nothing at the end of the day I can always log into freerice and answer a handful of questions or go for a walk or do some pushups.  Small progress is still progress.

I really encourage anyone who might be following this to make their own list.  It is quite a lot of fun and if you are someone who procrastinates or feels like you have a tendency to waste your time, it can be quite helpful.  You can put anything you want on the list (the "rules" say that you have to be able to quantify your results somehow which helps prevent debate over what is "good enough") This is one of my favorites that I came across while trying to make my list.  Look at all the stuff she has!  It seems so fun!  Also in researching my list I realized that the vast, vast majority of list-makers are female.  Not sure why that is.  My guess is that the type of blogging that is conducive to this type of project tends to be primarily female?  Anyway bonus points if you make a list as a male.  I would love to see what things you come up with since a lot of the lists I have seen have more "girl things" like getting a manicure and not a lot of "guy things" (like.... sports? what even is a comparable guy thing?)  Also most of the lists had few or no tech-y goals (a couple "redesign my blog" type things but no building robots or stuff).