2013 ‘Til Infinity: The 2013 100

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Last updated on February 10th, 2024 at 12:29 am

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Dear fellow ’83 babies—this is it. The last gasp of your 20s. The last year where you can fool yourself into thinking that you’re not really an adult—that you’re a youth just playing the part.

You’ll start to get labelled. Expectations will increase. Parents will want you to reproduce, peers will ask how well you’re achieving your career goals—the pressure’s gonna be on to prove your worth in this world!

But it’s not all so bleak and dreary—2013 can be happy and prosperous if we’re willing to put the work in!

The 2013 100

For me, after wrapping up a 2012 that was all sorts of insanity, I found myself wondering: “What do I want to get out of 2013?” More money? A better lifestyle?

But then I realized that I’d never be able to choose, so I decided on another route.

Inspired by my longtime friend The Green Girl‘s list of 100 things she’d like to do in 2013, I decided to make one of my own! Unlike earlier years, I’m not about to beat myself up if I don’t get all 100 done—The 2013 100 is more like a compass to keep me pointed toward things I can do to make my life better 😊 If you have any ideas for any of them or just want to tell me that I’m utterly insane, feel free to tell me in the comments below! And here we go!

1. Negotiate a way better phone contract
2. Give Sarah the present I always alluded to but never got around to giving her
3. Start a business or two
4. Learn to drive, learn to drive, for the love of God learn how to drive!
5. Sell all the stuff I’ve meant to sell
6. Start drawing comics on some sort of regular schedule
7. Get my clothes tailored
8. Get up-to-date on my emails
9. Cook at least one meal
10. Make an app
11. Spruce up my about.me page
12. Send personal emails to everyone who I came into contact with in 2012 about future potential opportunities to collaborate
13. Launch the Mansformation website
14. Update my résumé
15. Create my creative résumé and portfolio
16. Attend Bloggers in Sin City
17. Do something awesome for my 30th birthday
18. Create a collective of creatives with similar goals in mind
19. Get new glasses
20. Transform all the blog drafts I have lying around into real posts
21. Merge my past 10 years of blogging into one site
22. Start a tweetchat
23. Start a podcast
24. Dabble in video
25. Get a local doctor
26. Get a local dentist
27. Make some money in the stock market
28. Get ahead of schedule with the Man Lessons
29. Create a schedule for regular website maintenance
30. Start the SHEvolution
31. Go up the CN Tower, one way or another, and go the CN Tower Edgewalk
32. Visit Casa Loma
33. Create a list of cool things to do in Toronto
34. Run a cool 5K race, like Run for Your Lives or Tough Mudder
35. Clean my music collection up, once and for all
36. Establish a far better filing system for my documents
    
37. Use all the different themes, templates, tutorials and eBooks I amassed in 2012
38. Try to sleep like normal people do
39. Get all of the outstanding work off of my plate at the 9-to-5
40. Write my first eBook
41. Start blogging internally at work again
42. Call my grandparents more often
43. Turn my negatives and slides into digital images
44. Sort through the magazines and clippings I have strewn about the house
45. Get at least one design submitted to Threadless
46. Upgrade the lenses on my camera
47. Have my family over more often
48. Play the Wii and PS3 games I haven’t touched
49. Attend a TED/TEDx Talk
50. Read all my old yearbook signings and candygrams to get a better understanding of the journey I’ve travelled
51. Plant a proper garden
52. Clean up my digital files
53. Eat breakfast more often
54. Understand politics
55. Stop buying unnecessary things
56. Stop biting my nails when I’m stressed
57. Write a novel for NaNoWriMo
58. Come up with a better campaign for Movember
59. Get a sewing machine and learn how to alter my clothes
60. Start writing Christmas cards for friends, family and neighbours yearly
61. Look into grants and funding for the projects I want to do
62. Learn how to better use Wolfram|Alpha’s Mathematica
63. Eat healthier
64. Lose the tummy
65. Increase stamina
66. Create more infographics
67. Join more social clubs that’re in line with my interests
68. Get a stylish yet functional 3/4-length winter coat
69. Help my Mom get tickets to CityLine and/or the Marilyn Denis show
70. Buy a bike
71. Go tobogganing
72. Try some new restaurants on the Danforth
73. Go to Pacific Mall
74. Go to #LoserKaraoke
75. Watch a Raptors Game
76. Visit more of Canada—somewhere west of Windsor or east of Montreal
77. Finish the thank you cards from our wedding
78. Clear out my Google Reader
79. Create a personal budget
80. Learn how to develop a site using a UI kit
81. Become a true WordPress expert
82. Don’t succumb to laziness
83. Get new casual shoes to replace the ones that were stolen from my porch 😕
84. Come up with an awesome costume for Halloween 2013
85. Use up the gift cards, coupons, etc. I have lying around to do something useful
86. Revitalize my wardrobe
87. Devise a way to work from home
88. Get my French bilingual certification
89. Make social media a real part of how I earn an income
90. Transfer Sarah’s old IDE hard drive onto one of my SATA hard drives
91. Transfer all my external storage to an SSD Drobo system
92. Get some cool-ass sunglasses
93. Rock a new chapeau style
94. Find a signature drink to mix
95. Survive an entire Nuit Blanche
96. Take photos at Caribana
97. Spend more time outside of Toronto
98. Carry less paper
99. Wean off of the need for a backpack
100. Have caseypalmer.com show up on the first page of Google search results for “Casey”

We can all make this as awesome a year as we want — but that wonderful cliché “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is always applicable. You’re not getting anything from your year if you don’t put in the work. Start making those goals happen!

Any other interesting resolutions out there? Let me know if we can help each other out! It’s always better to use the power of numbers and not stubbornly try to do things on our own!

Happy New Year to one and all 😁

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Check out all the posts in The 2013 100!

• 2013 ‘Til Infinity: The 2013 100
• Driving, Drawing and Dining: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 1-10
• Birthdays, BiSC and Blogging: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 11-20
• Social Media, Stocks and a SHEvolution Gone Wrong: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 21-30
• Audiophilia, Authorship and Altitudinal Consumption: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 31-40
• Nostalgia, Nintendo and the Need to Clean: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 41-50
• Tradition, Tailoring and Tilling My Land: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 51-60
• Education, Exercise and Some Effervescence for Ingenuity: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 61-70
• Karaoke, Cards and a bit of O Canada!: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 71-80
• Lessons, Language, and Leaving Laziness Behind: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 81-90
• The Year That Was… 2013.: The 2013 100 Wrap-Up 91-100