For those of you who know me really well, you know that I am a compulsive planner. Whether it’s a grocery list or to-do list, I love making them. I always worry about forgetting things so making a list makes me feel like I have some control over my life. I literally find slips pf paper from old lists everywhere.
As
you may remember, Paul and I have been working on changing a lot of things in
our lives starting this year, so I’ve been thinking about a lot of things that
I hope to accomplish over time. I had heard about the Day Zero Project before
so I started investigating it on the internet. I couldn’t believe how many
people are participating in the project. If you are interested you can read
more about it here. Anyway I became very interested in starting my own list.
The
idea behind the Day Zero Project is to create a list of 101 things you want to
accomplish in 1001 days (approximately 2.7 years). During my research, I’ve
explored so many blogs and tried to get an idea of what people are trying to
accomplish. I definitely had some set goals going into the project, but reading
other people’s goals made me really sit down and want to work towards some
really cool things in my life. The Day Zero Project has some ideas to explore
on it too, so check it out. When you make your own account they provide a countdown
calculator to figure out the beginning and end date for your list. I will
officially be starting mine tomorrow, January 5, 2015, which puts my end date
as October 2, 2017.
I’ve
listed below my final list. It took quite a bit of time to put it together, but
I am so excited about getting to work and accomplishing these goals! I hope I’m
not over my head. Hopefully by sharing my list with you all I will not only, possibly,
inspire some of you to make your own lists, but also keep track of what I
accomplish and get me motivated. Happy New Year everyone!
Family
1.
Spend one night a week with no technology distractions for a year (make this
permanent)
2.
Travel somewhere we have never been
3.
Announce a pregnancy!
4.
Spend nothing for 2 weeks (I’d like to try this a couple times)
5.
Take portraits of Paul and me for our anniversary
6.
Plan 10 surprise date nights
7.
Finish our life simplification project
8.
Create an amazing collection of children’s books for our future babies
9.
Have a Paul and Amanda’s Day of Fun
10.
Make 10 homemade items for a nursery/baby
11.
Make a time capsule and bury it
12.
Go on an impulse weekend trip
Home
& Garden
13.
Make a really great vegetable garden (expand and make it more usable)
14.
Grow all my vegetables organically
15.
Re-do the guest bedroom
16.
Buy/Get a freezer
17.
Make 5 pieces of art for our home
18.
Finally landscape the front flower garden
19. Re-purpose a piece of furniture for the house
20.
Sew a set of place-mats for our table
21.
Plant 3 new vegetables I’ve never grown
22.
Create a space for my art/sewing area
23.
Buy something for the house from Ikea
24.
Build something for the house
Creativity
25.
Do a photography project *more on that later
26.
Participate in a shared art project (looking for volunteers!)
27.
Make a second quilt
28.
Sew a piece of clothing I can wear
29.
Make my own set of birthday and thank you cards
30.
Organize and clean out my creative supplies
31.
Photograph a wedding or a baby session
32.
Dye my own fabric
33.
Take photos of the same thing every month for a year then turn it into a calendar
34.
Buy a quality set of paintbrushes and take really good care of them
35.
Write a poem
36.
Make a mobile
37.
Participate in the Instagram Weekend Hashtag Project for a month
Get
Healthy
38.
Figure out how to eat organically on a budget
39.
Do yoga every day for 30 days
40.
Find the perfect running shoes for my flat feet
41.
Move towards meatless Mondays for at least a year
42.
Cut out soda from my diet for a year
43.
Try a new class at the gym
44.
Run 12 miles a week for a month
45.
Create 4 perfected healthy go-to smoothie recipes
46.
Drink 64 oz of water a day for a month (hopefully continue)
47.
Get to my target weight before I get pregnant
In
the Kitchen
48.
Try 20 new recipes I have never made
49.
Make our own wine
50.
Put together a cookbook of our favorite family recipes and new family recipes
51.
Make a meal that came entirely from our garden
52.
Make my own homemade pasta
53.
Make my own ice cream
54.
Make my own ravioli
55.
Take a cooking class with Paul
56.
Make my own homemade marinara sauce
57.
Learn to make my own baby food
58.
Go berry picking and make my own jam
59.
Try 3 new fruits and 3 new vegetables I’ve never had before
60.
Join a CSA
Free
Time
61.
Watch 10 movies from AFI’s top 100 that I have never seen
62.
Read 5 books off my “Read When I’m Done with Grad School” list
63.
Visit the Albright-Knox with Paul
64.
Spend an entire weekend reading
65.
Read 5 classic novels
66.
Read 3 poetry books
67.
Read a book out of my comfort zone
68.
Host a dinner party
69.
Eat out only once a month
70.
Go to lunch/dinner and see a movie by myself
71.
Visit the Chimney Bluffs
72.
Visit a four star restaurant
Personal
73.
Get my 2nd tattoo
74.
Pick 2 random days and “treat myself”
75.
Take a class in something, anything
76.
Develop a good cleaning routine and stick to it
77.
Put $10 in our savings account for each completed 101 item
78.
Visit a state I have never been to
79.
Simplify my closet/wardrobe
80.
Answer the “50 Questions that will Free Your Mind”
81.
Try 3 new wines with Paul
82.
Master a difficult yoga move
83.
Enter a contest
84.
Be in bed by 10:30pm every night for one week
Career
and Blog
85.
Make up business cards
86.
Blog twice a week for a month
87.
Introduce more art projects into my lesson plans
88.
Hold an art show for my students
89.
Start a new and original blog series
90.
Watch 5 different TED Talks and post about each one for my blog
91.
Organize all the lesson plans
92.
Finally organize and get a good system for Outlook at work
93.
Attend an education workshop
For
Others
94.
Volunteer for a local charitable organization
95.
Complete 10 random acts of kindness with Paul
96.
Give away something I’ve made
97.
Pick a random item(s) off the Rochester Community Wish list to donate
98.
Make a meal/bake for someone once a week for a month
99.
Go to the bookstore and leave random inspirational notes in different books
100.
Surprise 5 friends with random homemade gifts
101.
Plant something on Earth Day
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