I like challenges. I also like lists. So I have decided to combine both and create a list of challenges to complete in 2013. One challenge for each week of the year. Sounds like fun, right? Well, you can see my list here (I’ll check things off as I progress) and you can keep an eye on how I’m doing through my blog posts.
If you’d like to join in, all you have to do is create a list and post it on your blog. You can then leave a link to your post below in the comments section of my list page. I’d love to think we can all inspire each other to keep going and achieve something good.
Your challenges can be anything at all – just be specific as you need to be able to very definitely cross those things off your list. Most of all, it’s important that we have FUN doing it!
Let the challenge begin!
COLOUR KEY:
In Progress
Completed
Books:
1. Read 52 books in 52 weeks (52/52)
2. Take part in a book blog tour – HERE
3. Interview an author – HERE
4. Read only books that I already have, have been given as gifts/to review, or have borrowed from the library for 52 weeks (52/52)
5. Read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin (7/7)
6. Read 6 pre-WWII classics (5/6)
Film and Television:
7. Watch 52 films in 52 weeks (52/52)
8. Watch 12 films nominated for Oscars at the 85th Academy Awards (11/12)
9. Watch 12 films that are newly released in 2013 (12/12)
10. Watch 12 foreign language films (1/12)
11. Watch all four seasons of Downton Abbey (4/4)
12. Re-watch all four seasons of Farscape plus Peacekeeper Wars (0/5)
Family:
13. Teach Tadpole to read
14. Take Tadpole sledging – HERE
15. Take Tadpole ice skating
16. Build a snowman with Tadpole – HERE
17. Take Tadpole swimming
18. Teach Tadpole to ride a bike
19. Take Tadpole on a big wheel
20. Take Tadpole to a pantomime
21. Spend Christmas 2013 at home with just Hubby, Tadpole and Button
Travel away from home:
22. Visit my family in Northumberland twice (2/2)
23. Visit my family in Braemar twice (2/2)
24. Go to Edinburgh for a mini break – cancelled due to moving!
25. Visit the National Museum of Scotland (in Edinburgh) – cancelled due to moving!
26. Visit Edinburgh Zoo – cancelled due to moving!
Health and happiness:
27. Lose 14 lbs (11.5/14) – cancelled due to pregnancy!
28. Run 5km – cancelled due to pregnancy!
29. Make and keep an appointment at a chiropodist
30. Get a professional manicure
31. Get a professional pedicure
32. Go to the dentist
33. Get new glasses
34. Go to bed before midnight every night for a week (7/7)
Food and drink:
35. Cook one new recipe every month (6/12)
36. Do not eat chocolate at all for 4 weeks straight (4/4)
37. Try one food I’ve never tasted before every month (6/12)
- January – Avocado
- February – Sea bass
- March – Asparagus
- April – Passion fruit
- May – Green smoothies
- June – Pak choi
38. Eat only vegetarian meals one day every week (52/52)
39. Drink no alcohol at all for 4 weeks straight (4/4)
Crafts:
40. Learn to use my sewing machine
41. Learn to do hardanger
42. Learn three new crochet stitches/styles/techniques (1/3)
43. Make / contribute to three items for charity (3/3)
44. Learn to do calligraphy
Finances:
45. Save all £2 coins for 52 weeks (52/52)
46. Save all 1p/2p/5p coins for 52 weeks (52/52)
47. Put aside £10 for every challenge completed (£250/£520)
Other:
48. Buy a swimming costume
49. Get over my fear of needles enough to donate a pint of blood – cancelled due to pregnancy!
50. Self portrait picture every week (35/52)
51. Post a weekly update of my progress on my blog (35/52)
52. Make a new list of 52 things in 52 weeks for 2014
Kincavel Korner 
I’ve been looking around the web for different challenges, and I really like the one you have here. I’m in!! I’ll post my list in the next day or two.
I’ll look forward to seeing what goes on your list! 🙂
Okay, so I posted my list and included a link back to your blog, so hopefully more people decide to join in on this. The link to my post is:
http://www.aroundthehomestead.blogspot.com/2012/12/52-things-in-52-weeks.html
Thanks,
Shannon
Great list – I’ll look forward to seeing all your items checked off at the end of 2013! 🙂
Wow! That is an impressive list. You obviously enjoy a challenge. Best wishes for 2013. I am looking forward to reading your blog as I have just stumbled upon it.
Thanks. I hope you’ll keep popping back to watch my progress, and maybe make a list for yourself too. 🙂
Great post! You have inspired me. Here is my list http://scrapandiron.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/52-things-in-2014/
I cut and pasted yours and then updated it but here it is http://thefeaginsfamilyjourney.blogspot.com/2014/01/hello-2014.html
Thanks for the inspiration
I’m so pleased my little challenge is inspiring people to make their own lists for the year. I’ll add yours to the links in my post so I can check on your progress. Happy new year! 🙂
Wonderful!!! I see this was last year’s list – do you have one for this year posted? I am inspired to write my own list. I don’t have a blog to link it to – one of the items on my list is to start a blog! 🙂 Thanks for the insirpiration!
Thank you so much! You have inspired me to do my own. Here is a link to mine if you are interested.
http://heartbeatsntreats.blogspot.ca/2014/01/52-things-in-52-weeks-2014.html
I am SO excited, and currently sitting on my kitchen floor with my toddler and a mess of scrap booking supplies ready to make a fun version of my list for the fridge for easy tracking and oh-so-necessary reminders.
I would love to see if you have a new one for 2014. 🙂
Brilliantly inspiring post. Thank you so much for sharing this. Got me to pen my goals for 2014.
If anyone’s interested here’s my list – http://stochastic-musings.blogspot.sg/2014/01/gandhis-52-things-in-2014-challenge.html
This is such a great idea!
I’ve made my own attempt on: http://messylittleprojects.blogspot.com/2014/03/42-things-in-42-weeks.html