Day Zero Project

Plan. Create. Motivate. Achieve.

The Challenge:
Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:
Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).

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.

My Day Zero Project List

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001 – 010:
Go to the sex museum in Amsterdam
[   ] Drink tea in a Coffeeshop
Go skinny dipping
[   ] Take a pedicab
[   ] Travel to Berlin
[   ] Travel to Paris
[   ] Kiss in the rain sharing an iPod that is turned on
Buy a newspaper from a homeless guy
Give money to a street artist
[   ] Hug a stranger

011 – 020:
[   ] Watch ten movies after 2 am (0/10)
Eat no cookies for a whole month
[   ] Watch the sunrise and sunset of the same day
[   ] Watch 20 disney movies (3/20)
[   ] Finish my Wreck this Journal
[   ] Don’t sleep for 48 hours straight with someone
Clean out my hotmail account, including my mailbox
Spend a day without your laptop, tv and cellphone
[   ] Tell 10 people they’re great and that you love them (0/10)
[   ] Go to a professional ballet show

021 – 030:
Try out three sorts of Starbucks coffees you never drank before  3/3)
[   ] Drink no soda for a whole month
[   ] Play monopoly with people you haven’t played that game before
Quit nail biting
[   ] Dance in the pouring rain
[   ]Bake a space cake and eat half of it on your own
[   ] Find out your blood type
[   ] Donate blood
[   ] Get a tattoo
[   ] Celebrate Easter really big

031 – 040:
[   ] Get a leg wax
[   ] Go on a trip without a destination
Get a job
[   ] Read a full newspaper, every page and every arcticle
Eat no chocolate for a whole week
[   ] Play patience a 1000 times on my laptop (939/1000)
[   ] Get a new pen pal
[   ] Write a letter to my old pen pal
[   ] Go completely crazy while dancing all alone
[   ] Drink more than two bottles of wine by yourself in one hour

041 – 050:
[   ] Be nice to everyone for a whole week
[   ] Call someone out of a public telephone box
[   ] Bake someone a pie randomly
[   ] Buy red lipstick and wear it for a whole week straight (at day)
[   ] Pass at least ten courses in university (9/10)
[   ] Compose a cookbook of mom’s recipes
[   ] Play guitar hero
[   ] Play sing star
[   ] Lose twenty pounds
[   ] Send a christmas card to more than fifty people in one year

051 – 060:
[   ] Watch 26 movies I’ve never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet
[   ] Make a playlist with 101 of your favorite songs
[   ] Compose a Wall of Dreams
[   ] Visit Auschwitz
[   ] Read all Harry Potter books again in a row
[   ] Read the book Lord of the Rings
Visit the Efteling
[   ] Get a pedicure done
Go to a spa
Read a book of Jane Austen

061 – 070:
Read a book of Shakespeare
[   ] Only eat potato crsips on weekends
[   ] Visit all streets of monopoly and make a picture of them
Try out five flavors of tea I’ve never had before (5/5)
Watch all episodes of Sex and the City
[   ] Aggregate 101 beautiful, true and inspiring quotes
[   ] Go on a road trip with friends
[   ] Survive on 5 euros for a whole week
[   ] Buy a typewriter
[   ] Eat Flemish fries in Belgium

071 – 080:
[   ] Do a good bookkeeping of at least six months for yourself
[   ] Clean out my room and sell all things I don’t want on the Internet
Get a new CJP card
[   ] Go to the cinema at least five times a year (5/15)
[   ] Buy a puzzle and complete it in the same day
[   ] Take my mom on a trip of her choice
[   ] Read a fairy book
Vote
[   ] Not dye my hair for at least six months
[   ] Count the number of kCal you eat for a whole week and write them down

081 – 090:
Be overly honest for a whole day
[   ] Read at least 20 pages of the Bible
[   ] Read ‘Mein Kampf’
[   ] Throw a Cocktail Party
[   ] Send a ‘Thank you’-card to a friend, just because – without further explanation
[   ] Start a new DZP when this one is done
[   ] Paint a self portait
[   ] Send someone flowers
[   ] Watch ‘The Godfather’ trilogy
[   ] Visit ten places with a funny name and photograph their name signs (0/10)

091 – 100:
[   ] Go to the Frietmuseum in Brugge
[   ] Make a pizza from scratch
[   ] Listen to an audio book (from “cover” to “cover”)
[   ] Fast for a day
[   ] Carve your name in a tree
[   ] Ask five friends what there favorite book is and read it (0/5)
[   ] Buy pretty lingerie
[   ] Go to a secondhand shop and compose an outfit and buy it
[   ] Be a vegetarian for a whole week
[   ] Spin around on a chair until you get dizzy

101:
[   ] Put 2 euros in my piggybank for every achievement