Althena
Rosalind

The 100/50 Journey is my flagship practice and the home of this movement.

I’m spending fifty years creating, testing and choosing the one hundred projects I will be proud to leave behind.

However, I’ll attempt and complete MORE than one hundred projects. Some will fail and some will succeed without making the final hundred.

The official hundred will be the 100 chosen successful projects that deserve to represent my life’s body of work.

This means that some projects will be amazing but still be dropped from my final 100 list. I’ll need to make tough decisions about what will be my top 100 projects that will conclude my final list.

In fact, this is a lifetime top 100 list. This means you will add projects, drop projects, shuffle projects around, until you have your decisive 100 list completed over 50 years.

The 100/50 Journey does not represent a production quota. It is a symbolic method for a lifelong practice of creating, learning, testing, choosing and contributing.

The 100/50 Journey embraces a simple method:

High Imagination opens the possibilities.
Low Hustle makes room for them.
The List holds them.
Trust Yourself chooses what comes next.
The Journey gives the work time.
The Bookshelf remembers what was finished.

There is a deeper reason why all this matters to me. I want to look back and see that I made things which helped people while I was alive.

The hundred gives that hope a visible form, and the help I give along the way matters to me too.

Completing this collection would give me evidence of a helpful and meaningful life.

A project is counted as successful by your own measurement.

If you decide the project worked, that it helped you and others, then it is successful. It has nothing to do with being bestselling, profitable, popular, or flawless, unless you want that to be your own definition of success for that project.

My definition of success is that the project serves me well. It fixed my problem and helped me. I know if it did that for me, then it can also help others.

The commitment is to the Journey, not to carrying every attempt to the end. A project can be finished, changed, paused or deliberately stopped.

Recording why you stopped gives the next project the benefit of that work. You do not leave the Journey by stopping one project. You leave it by quitting the Journey.

Your only goal here is to not quit the journey. Starting your master list was a good decision, so stick to it, but be flexible enough to let your list be shaped by your journey.

Change can be done quite normally with lists. A list is not a scary, crazy thing to take up.

Follow my own 100/50 list as it grows and see how ordinary completing a list can be.

My list shows that a slow, multi-project creative life is legitimate and possible.

The 100/50 Journey is for people who share a belief, a frustration or a desire.

• imaginative people with more ideas than time
• people who have started many meaningful things and fear finishing very few
• people who want to contribute something during their lifetime
• people who dislike rigid productivity culture and relentless optimisation
• people who want to become capable through real practice
• people who need a structure broad enough to hold several interests
• people who want a long creative life, rather than one frantic success
• people who want to look back and recognise a body of work they are proud of

This topic of completing a long list is something you can have as a career choice.

There will always be a demand for this. There will always be people who have many meaningful creative projects who find ordinary productivity systems too rigid, hustle culture too damaging, niche-down advice too restrictive, and bucket lists too passive.

They want to build several things over a lifetime without treating every day as an emergency.

There are plenty of planners, productivity methods and business systems. There are far fewer people saying:

Your many interests can belong together. Give them a long horizon, choose carefully, make at a humane pace, and build a body of work that helps somebody.

Through the 100/50 Journey, you can use the idea of lists for your own focused interests. It can be one enduring topic (like mine) or a mixture of topics.

This is not only a career, but also a lifetime sentence to a list. This list represents you, and also what you want to spend a chunk of your life’s time working on.

If you decide to take up the 100/50 Journey, your journey can be 100 projects over 50 years, or something else.

You can take on the 100/50 Journey, choose a different number or timespan, or build a list around what matters to you.

When you use a list, you can start saying, I’m someone who takes my ideas seriously. I can learn, make, recover, finish and contribute.

I want to help you hold those possibilities, choose what comes next and keep moving from wanting to making.

You’re so welcome to walk alongside me. If you’d like some company on the path, #-Join the 100/50 Journey Group Waitlist.

When you join the community you can say, I belong among imaginative people who build meaningful things without turning their lives into a hustle contest.

Together we can work out what flexible means for you. Let high imagination, low hustle, and the power of lists, help you learn to trust yourself enough to walk a path of your own choosing.

The help I want to give you is movement through the fog, towards work you can finish and stand behind.