Day Zero Project

Have you heard about it, the Day Zero Project? It's modern version of the New Year's resolutions. It seems that one year is not enough to fulfill your goals, so there's a new concept: 101 goals in 1001 days.

Since it seems like fun, I'm giving it a try! And no, this is not the sole purpose of this blog!

Start: 9th September 2009

End:  6th June 2012

• finished!
• in progress!
• failed

The List!


About 101-1001

1. Blog about the progress of the project
2. Put 5€ in a money box for every goal you complete
3. Make a picture of at least 50 goals
4. Keep a scrapbook of the project (fun for later!)

Active life

5. Dare to ski
6. Go rafting
7. Stand on a height of at least 3500 meter
8. Participate in the City Run (10 km) in the summer of 2010!
9. Don't skip box training for a month (even if it storms of snows!)
10. Participate in the Gordel (100km cycling)
11. Swim in an ocean
12. Go to a professional sports event

Me, myself and I

13. Write a letter to your future self, let's say my 35 year old self
14. Write a letter to your future child about who you are now
15. Move to a house with a garden in stead of your apartment
16. Grow sunflowers in that garden
17. Start law school
18. Don't go shopping for a month, so you save up for goal 19
19. Go shopping with a close friend and let her restyle you
20. Buy at least 2 outfits that are of better quality then H&M, Zara, C&A, ...
21. Travel somewhere all by yourself
22. Play the piano everyday for two weeks so you learn a new piece of music
23. Do the same on your violin
24. Buy yourself an iPod (I always put it back in the shelves) (ordered on the apple store)
25. Buy the newspaper of the day you were born (If happens, do the same when you get engaged and/or married)
26. Go to a wellnesscenter
27. Eat vegetarian for one week
28. Go to bed at 22u30 for one week
29. Don't drink soda for a week (I'm an addict)
30. Don't buy sandwiches at work, but bring homemade salads to lunch
31. Don't snooze for a week

Work, work, work!

32. Give to lectures at a foreign congress
33. Publish 3 articles in specialist magazine
34. Read 5 books and 20 articles about your PhD-subject by the end of 2009 (books 0/5, articles 2/20)
35. Buy a sweater with the emblem of your university
36. Study some physics and impress your physicist-boyfriend

Just do it!

37. Sleep under the stars
38. Use Google Earth Sky-mode to recognize stars
39. Dye your hair in a completely different color
40. Spend one weekend without electronics: no cell, no computer, no television, ...
41. Knit a scarf
42. Crochet a baby blanket
43. Participate in Post crossing until you receive 10 cards
44. Visit 5 different Christmas markets
45. Participate in the New Year's dive (cold!)
46. Take your camera with you for a month and take snaps from everything
47. Find out how many meters toothpaste there is in one tube
48. Rent a tandem with my boyfriend and argue who gets to sit in front
49. Ride a dog sledge in the snow
50. Win a competition
51. Go buy a Christmas tree in the town center and carry it home wearing reindeer ears and singing Christmas songs
52. Organize the best Christmas pick nick ever
53. Go the the beach early in the morning and write a message in the wet sand

Love, friends and family

54. Spend a whole day in bed with The Geek
55. Surprise him five times
56. Take a dance class with The Geek
57. Surprise my mother with a bunch of flowers
58. Send Christmas cards to everyone that is important to me (no e-cards!)
59. Leaf through the family albums with my grandmother
60. Create a family tree
61. Take a picture of everyone in my family
62. Create a new family album with the pictures from goal 61
63. Have our picture taken (me+brother) and use it as a gift to our parents
64. Organize an awesome day out for all my friends
65. Organize an awesome day out for my family
66. Surprise 3 people on their birthday with a homemade birthday cake 
67. Give Billy (our cat) a friend (a second cat)
68. Meet up with my 3 ex-boyfriends 
69. Try not to be irritated by your mother/sister-in-law-to-be on 3 occasions

Fellow men

70. Clear out your stuff: everything you don't use/need anymore has to go. Sell it or give it away
71. Volunteer for a day
72. Don't use the car for two weeks: use public transport, cycle or walk
73. Don't accept plastic bags anymore for a month
74. Plant a tree
75. Guerillagarden!
76. Let 5 people go first at the checkout
77. Be nice for 5 days, including in traffic!
78. Give blood 3 times
79. Give plasma 4 times

Discover the world

80. Go on a city trip with your girlfriends
81. Book a last minute and just leave
82. Take 4 day trips in your own country (Belgium it is)
83. Make a road trip
84. Visit at least 3 other countries
85. See the Big Five in Africa (not in the Zoo)

Be cultural 

86. Create 5 photo-reports with at least 20 pictures
87. Read 25 classic books, no Kathy Reichs or Sophie Kinsella!
88. Watch a movie for every letter of the alphabet
89. Watch at least 4 movies on a filmfestival
90. Visit 3 exhibitions
91. Visit 3 museums
92. Go to 3 concerts
93. Go see a play
94. Watch a movie from the year you're born (1986)
95. Read a book from the year you're born (still 1986)
96. Have a Lord of the Rings marathon

Taste and food

97. Try 5 new restaurants
98. Learn a new dish every month
99. Organize a tapas evening for your girlfriends
100. Specialize yourself in a fabulous cake
101. Try our 10 different Ben & Jerry's flavors!