From DayZero Project
The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
Why 1001 Days?
Many people have created lists in the past – frequently simple challenges such as New Year’s resolutions or a ‘Bucket List’. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips, study semesters, or outdoor activities.
Round 1 finished up in May of 2014 with 49 awesome and fun completed goals....selling a home, riding in a hot air balloon, visiting Zion National Park and photographing the Milky Way to name a few. Some incomplete goals remain on this new list, while others have lost their appeal. Is it bad that I found it difficult to come up with 101 goals for this second round?
Round 2
Start Date: May 10, 2014
Completion Date: Feb 4, 2017
Complete: 10
- Photograph a hot air balloon festival
- Reread all of Shakespeare's Sonnets in a month
- Bake the perfect batch of chocolate croissants
- Have tea and scones in the Cotswolds
- Go a month without buying anything that isn't a necessity
- Unplug for an entire weekend
- Volunteer 40 hours: 4/40
- Take photos in Grand Teton National Park
- Take vitamins daily for 2 months
- Prepare a "Farm-to-table" dish or meal
- Go skydiving
- Take a photo a day for a month
- Participate in a charity run
- Perfect 5 yoga poses
- Read Wives and Daughters all the way through
- Take an impromptu weekend trip
- Wear red lipstick
- Touch my nose to my knees
- Take up a new outdoor activity
- Dress up for Halloween one year
- Take up tennis again
- Visit a financial planner and reconcile my numerous 401ks floating around at my previous employers
- Read a book in french/italian
- See the Northern Lights
- Photograph a sunrise and sunset from the same point on the same day
- Visit 5 museums
- Downsize to a mirrorless camera system May 2014
- Get my butt back to NY for a visit
- Read 33 books (at least one per month) 4/33
- Get a sibling Boston for Brooklyn
- Ride a Vespa
- Go Christmas caroling
- Give money to a street performer
- Learn how to make pasta from a pro
- Visit 5 places I've never heard of
- Learn to speak basic Italian
- Attend the opera
- Complete the 200 Sit Up Challenge
- Mail someone a surprise package
- Host a dinner party
- Purge 40% of my belongings
- Quit my job and live in Europe
- Have professional photos taken
- Sign Brooklyn up for a manners refresher class
- Own a pair of Tieks June 2014
- Photograph a rainbow
- Go wine tasting in a fabulous wine region
- Pack a picnic and a book in a bike and pedal somewhere new
- Be on a first name basis at a family run cafe or restaurant
- Go an entire month without correcting anyone's grammar
- Buy the most fabulous "Yeah I escape for the weekend all the time" chic leather weekender
- Take time to intentionally acknowledge and listen to 5 strangers tell their stories 1/5
- Learn how to take video on any of my cameras
- Make a vacation video
- Take an advanced Photoshop class
- Beat my FitBit for 1 month straight
- Visit Denali
- Fill a pitcher full of Peonies that I grew myself
- Get at least 4 uses out of my Rocky Mtn National Park pass
- Buy and donate 10 books to a Children's Literacy 501(c)3
- Bake and ice cookies with a rainbow of Royal Icing
- Proactively reduce junk mail catalogs and pre-approve offers July 2014
- Find and photograph 10 unique doors/doorways
- Take another belly dancing class
- Go sailing
- Have a moonlight beach picnic
- Finish my granny stripe afghan
- Finish my Heather Bailey Pop Garden quilt
- Drive on the left side of the road
- Learn to bake perfect macarons
- Go bungee jumping
- Climb the Manitou Springs Incline
- Photograph Crystal Mill
- Get lost in Venice again. And again. And again
- Join a CSA/support a farm
- Find the perfect chocolate cake recipe
- Try chicken and waffles
- Put together one full copycat outfit from my Pinterest Board
- Photograph the perfect old barn
- Find a mentor
- Be a mentor
- Have my freckles removed May-July 2014
- Attend a rodeo
- Learn to swing a golf club
- Send a care package to a soldier/unit
- Watch a movie outside
- Celebrate Christmas in a foreign country
- Visit 3 new Unesco World Heritage sites August-Sept 2014--who knew Italy had so many?
- Learn to Kayak
- Take a print worthy photo of a red phone booth
- Visit an olive farm
- Start a new tradition with my nieces and nephew
- Find a home church
- Hike between the 5 towns of Cinque Terre
- Create a list of 101 accomplishments I've already achieved in this life
- Buy a home
- Decorate a fabulous guest room
- Participate in a worthy Kickstarter campaign
- Buy and give 5 "just because" happy gifts
- Hike a 14er
- Go salmon fishing
fun reading through your list - I was getting worried there for a bit until I saw #77 - was hoping that would make it on the list! :)
ReplyDeleteI love the ecclectic mix of tougher challenges with the fun tasks like wearing red lipstick!
ReplyDeleteI love the piggy banks idea and am adding it to my 101. Thanks for the ideas. It was fun to read!
ReplyDeleteAha! another soon to be Mac convert. I wholeheartedly agree with that goal!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list! I've tried reading wives and daughters 3-4 times but the sheer volume of it is a bit offputting. :) Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI think we have a lot of similarities as I would add a lot of the same goals to my list.
ReplyDeleteLet me know how getting a Boston to walk on a leash without pulling works. My Riley is like one little sleigh puller, I can even see the individual leg muscles when he "digs" in to pull harder.
Just reading through others 101 lists inspire me to try one myself. Love the Any Soldier goal. I'd never heard of it before this.....thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm a huge Dave Ramsey fan for sure! We did the debt snowball and were out of all non-mortgage debt in just a year and a half. I love the goal of sharing the book with others!
ReplyDeleteI like that it combines all kinds of areas and difficulties to complete some of them. Hope you share the croissant recipe when you make the perfect batch!
ReplyDeleteI've wanted to try this for ages. I should just bite the bullet and do it.
ReplyDeleteWe drink a lot of kefir in our house. I didn't even realize you can make it at home!
I started a 101 list and got through 75 of them. It was so empowering!
ReplyDeletei think it is realy good to have goals because they make you work harder. i think you have some fun ones and some hard ones! good luck!
ReplyDeleteWith skydiving and parasailing, I'm sensing you like to fly through the air? Looks like fun, maybe I'll start a list!
ReplyDeleteI made it through 52 when I did it a couple of years ago. That's better than 50% so I was pleased.
ReplyDeleteHow cool! I'm inspired too. Maybe I will make my own list! Go You!
ReplyDeleteI've wanted to do this since I first saw it years ago. You think "listing 101 things" should be on my list of goals? :) I fugure if I can't get motivated enough to make a list, odds are not good for making progress in the list.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of this but I give anything that encourages trave a thumbs up! HOpe you make it to the UK. I love the yorkshire dales especially!
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun idea! I've never heard of this but I'm tempted to try for sure because that might be the only way my husband will let me jump out of plane! But honey, I must complete my goals....
ReplyDeleteSo fun! I'm starting my list now!
ReplyDeleteFUN! Hope you make all the goals especially the super fun travel ones!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great thing! I have a bucket list but with those, heck, I could take the rest of my life. Maybe I'll put a time goal on my bucket list. Love it!
ReplyDeleteVery inspiring. I may create my own list!
ReplyDeleteFun list!
ReplyDeleteThis is a fun list and I like that there's a deadline. I have a bucket list but who knows what the deadline is for that. :)
ReplyDeleteI love this list! I am going to make my own 101 here soon. It's much better than a bucket list and I bet there's a great feeling of accomplishment
ReplyDeleteI love your goals and list items, such a fun mix of biggies and small fun ones!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, you updated the list! I love these as much as the last ones. I've completed 45 with a few months to go.
ReplyDeleteOoooh I love this new list! Maybe I should finally start one!
ReplyDeleteI love this list and I love how you are making progress on it! I think I'm going to steal a few for my goals list. :)
ReplyDeleteI too am going to make a similar list. This is wonderful and I love your goals! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea because it has an end date and is more specific than a bucket list. Thanks for the ideas to fill up my list!
ReplyDeleteThis is really, really fun. I saw this on someone else's blog to and have been searching for great ideas to make a list of my own. I love your list!
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