I love Kelly’s missions [posted daily on http://flylady.net]. Every now and then I think it would be really cool to go through and figure out what all the frequency of various missions is (every month, etc.) and set up my own personalized set of missions and in a few cases reminders (“did you balance your checkbook his week?”, “did you pay the rent?”, “boogie under the sink”, etc.) so I can reorder all the missions to be in an order that more closely matches my own cleaning schedules. So this project is essentially brainstorm up my list of missions along with their relative frequencies and turn that into my own personalized cleaning missions and getting things done misssions.
Jessica's Life List
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1. go on a missions trip
184 people -
2. visit germany
1 cheer635 people -
3. visit israel
273 people -
4. simplify and declutter
2 cheers38 people -
5. read through the bible again
4 people -
6. Learn the books of the Bible (in order)
497 people -
7. get married (someday!)
210 people -
8. pray without ceasing
298 people -
9. read screwtape letters
1 cheer2 people -
10. exercise regularly
10,498 people -
11. Learn to budget
99 people -
12. Buy a House
12,549 people -
13. organize my recipes
104 people -
14. try a new recipe once a week
22 people -
15. clean out my bedroom closets and get rid of old clothes
1 person -
16. Learn to sew my own clothes!
1 cheer390 people -
17. learn to crochet
1,002 people -
18. improve my origami skills
1 cheer4 people -
19. Floss Every Day
1 cheer1,230 people -
20. get better at DDR
182 people -
21. Take more pictures
14,294 people -
22. create something beautiful
1 cheer505 people -
23. get married, stay married, and live happily ever after
1,893 people -
24. complain less
916 people -
25. visit all 50 U.S. states
113 people -
26. log my bible reading every day
1 entry1 person -
27. Read my Bible every day
232 people -
28. create my own housekeeping and life organization missions
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person -
29. develop in me the fruits of the spirit mentioned in the bible
1 cheer1 person
It took a really like time to complete this. I started in junior high and didn’t finish until sometime during high school. I didn’t have a particular wish I was folding them for. I just thought it would be cool to actually fold 1000 of them so I could say I’ve done it. Of course, in the process I’m sure I folded many more (even whole chains of them) that didn’t get counted, since I only counted ones that were in my own possession in my crane box. Yes, the full collection of 1000 of them fills up an entire letter/legal storage box. I’m really into miniature cranes folded from paper that is usually of size 1 to 2” square, so that probably helped keep the size of the collection physically smaller. Plus really tiny cranes just look really cool
I would like to keep a log (calendar?) of what I’ve read from my bible on a day-to-day basis. This would help me keep track of whether I’m actually reading every day, plus give me some material for interesting statistical trends. But mostly, I think it would help keep me accountable to my goal of reading from the bible every day if I could look back and say how close was I to actually meeting that goal with quantitative statistics rather than qualitative responses.

