My Day Zero Project list

The Day Zero Project is about inspiring you to achieve your goals.

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).

If you would like to participate you can find the Day Zero Project website here.

Here is my Day Zero list - as at 6 June 2011 I have 101 items (finally) and I have completed 9% of it!
Finish this list of 101 things


Go on a picnic

Update my resume

Have a Dinner Party

Write to someone who has inspired me

Exercise at least 3 times a week for 3 months (12 weeks).

Lose 2 kgs

Lose 5 kgs

Lose 8 kgs
Lose 10 kgs

Lose 12 kgs

Keep weight off for at least 6 months.

Start the Couch to 5 km run thing.

Complete the Couch to 5 km run thing.

Participate in a 5k walk/run

Get a passport

Have a Family holiday to New Zealand

Go to the Art Gallery and / or Museum 5 times

Go to the Theatre twice.

Donate Blood regularly (at least 5 times in 1001 days)

Attempt to read the 50 of 71 Greatest Novels of All item that I haven't read as yet

Learn card making and make them instead of buying them

Put in the forms for a school hours job

Blog everyday for 2 months a year (February doesn't count)

Plant a vegetable patch possibly with fruit trees.

Take the children on a bush walk / hike

Organise my workspace and then tidy it once a month
Try Zumba (that dance exercise thing) at least 5 times

Write and post (snail mail) 10 letters to people

Cut back on caffeine. Try to get down to 3 or less a day (any caffeinated beverage)

Drink more water 5 glasses to get up to at least 1.5 litres daily

Take vitamins for 1 month

Participate in National Blog Posting Month twice a year (not counting February)

Participate in National Novel Writing Month (November)

Go Camping for at least 2 nights

Restart our worm farm

Finish my course at Tafe

Try to be houseproud and actually make the house visitor friendly

Have a BBQ at home

Have someone / people over for coffee 5 times

Menu plan at least a week worth of dinners and stick to it

Change readers at school once a week for a term

Call my family interstate at least once a month

Have a games afternoon / night with the family every few months

Go out with my husband on a date 5 times (2/5)

Volunteer somewhere once a month for 6 months (not necessarily consecutive)

Clean out my clothes and get rid of things I will never wear again

Watch a Monty Python film in its entirety.

Have a LOTR fest and watch all three movies in a weekend.

Donate 100,000 grains of rice on freerice.com (0/100,000)

Re-learn to touch-type

Organise my books

Complete the 5000 Question Survey (0/5,000) I can’t remember where I am up to, though.

Write down my answers to the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind"

Read David Allen "Getting Things Done"

Clean out the pantry

Tidy the Linen cupboard

Learn how to use / apply make up

Use the face scrub / exfoliate at least 5 times

Use the body scrub / exfoliate at least 5 times

Use moisturiser for 30 days

Go on the Million Paws Walk with Dogs

Get to school before the first bell for 10 weeks

Organise and have time with each child separately and do something they want to 5 times each

Write and send Christmas cards before 10 December

Go to bed before 10.30 for a week straight 5 times

Answer the 20 questions you should ask yourself every Sunday once a month for a year

Find out what is involved to get tested and go on the bone marrow register

Be able to fit my wedding ring by our 16th anniversary. Sep 2011.

Don't log on to Facebook for 1 week straight

See the sun rise and set on the same day

Take the kids swimming in the river

Successfully grow a plant (but preferably more) from seed

Watch An Inconvenient Truth

Learn how to make (and actually make) Gluten Free pasta

Bake a roast chicken

Bake an apple pie

Learn to cook an Indian meal from scratch (no jars allowed)

Make ice cream from scratch

Write a short story

Write all my bad memories on paper, burn this paper afterwards

Fly in a hot air balloon

Go rock climbing

Learn to locate all 50 US states on a map

Send flowers anonymously to a friend in need

Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years

Expand my vocabulary by 100 words

Make a list of 100 things that make me smile or laugh

Learn how to make a paper crane

Write on 20 creative writing prompts. http://creativewritingprompts.com/

Improve my posture

Do the 200 sit-ups challenge (www.twohundredsitups.com)

Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Compile a List of 101 Inspirational Quotes

Sort photos and make an album

See the Total Lunar Eclipse on June 15 2011.

Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011

Have dinner by candlelight

Write my name in the sand

Make a list of 100 things I like about myself

Participate in Postcrossing http://www.postcrossing.com/ and send 25 cards (thanks to Gnomeangel for the idea!