DAY ZERO: 101 GOALS IN 1001 DAYS
The Mission:
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 my part).
The List:
1. Meet my best friend for the first time.
2. Sing alone in front of at least 100 people.
3. Make my bedroom look like I’ve just stepped foot into an 80s dance club.
4. Start painting again regularly.
5. Fast for two weeks.
6. Have better grades senior year and actually graduate.
7. Get my left cartilage re-pierced [5/18/09], get an industrial in my right ear, gauge my lobes to 0.
8. Stop drinking soda for good. [6/20/09]
9. Lose 100 lbs.
10. Get a new bike.
11. Visit a foreign country that’s off the continent.
12. Get my driver’s license.
13. Get a job and keep it. [6/25/09]
14. Work Warped Tour for at least five dates.
15. Turn off my laptop and phone for one whole week; Sunday 12:00 AM to Sunday 12:00 AM.
16. Become better at sight-reading music.
17. Audition for a solo in chorus.
18. Become vegetarian.
19. Meet my four favorite bands: Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, All Time Low, Placebo.
20. Meet my hero: David Bowie.
21. Take photography classes.
22. Read all of the 100 books on my 100 Books To Read/Re-Read Before I Die list. [7/100]
23. Cook at least 5 meals for the family. [0/5]
24. Throw a masquerade ball for my 18th birthday.
25. Donate blood.
26. Choose a country, learn the language, their history, and how to make some of their food.
27. Get my Bowie tattoo.
28. Spend one whole day lying in bed, doing nothing but listening to music.
29. Memorize a monologue and perform it somewhere.
30. Learn how to confront people.
31. Learn to ballroom dance.
32. Start connecting with my inner self more.
33. Learn some methods to stay organized.
34. Keep my room super clean for at least one month.
35. Create a sacred space for myself.
36. Actually complete NaNoWriMo one year.
37. Organize my laptop/delete things I don’t need/complete writing pieces that’ve been there for ages. [8/1/09]
38. Buy & complete Wreck This Journal.
39. Work really hard on a piece of art and get it displayed somewhere outside of my own home.
40. Learn Irish Gaelic.
41. Donate 1,000,000 grains of rice on freerice.com [100,000/1,000,000]
42. Get accepted into college.
43. Take piano lessons.
44. Clean out my closet.
45. Get my Avenged Sevenfold tattoo.
46. See Placebo live.
47. See 100 movies I’ve been meaning to watch but have never gotten the chance to see. [0/100]
48. Send a care package to a soldier I don’t know.
49. Write down things that make me angry and burn the page.
50. Rent a random movie I’ve never even heard of and watch it.
51. For however many items on this list I don’t finish, donate $3 to Invisible Children & To Write Love On Her Arms alternately.
52. Send a postcard in to PostSecret.
53. Try to get over my fear of clowns.
54. Spend one day watching just The History Channel.
55. Finish reading Lies My Teacher Told Me.
56. See Cirque du Soleil.
57. Get a big journal and write down my favorite lyrics in it.
58. Get the lyrics “these are the days it never rains but it pours” tattooed on me.
59. Adopt a puppy with different coloured eyes and name him Bowie. [:
60. Make an inspirational video.
61. Reach 1,000 Livejournal entries.
62. Go to a film festival like Tribeca or Sundance. Or both.
63. Own a top hat.
64. Write a Wikipedia article.
65. Plant a plant and keep it alive throughout the summer. [0/1]
66. Visit Oscar Wilde’s grave and leave flowers.
67. Buy a Moleskine and use it solely for quotes.
68. Eat at Happy China at least five more times. [0/5]
69. Start a collection of something random.
70. Read ten books on the banned/challenged book list. [0/10]
71. Buy something for someone random.
72. See fifteen movies on opening night. [2/15]
73. Buy something from Etsy.com [7/11/09]
74. Send at least 2 Postcrossing postcards a month, starting in June of 2009.
75. Get involved with Bookcrossing.
76. Buy a random color book and color it/buy some crayons.
77. Do at least 15 of the Learning To Love You More assignments. [0/15]
78. Document the Learning To Love You More assignments in a scrapbook of sorts.
79. Surprise someone random with sugar cookies.
80. Surprise someone random with flowers.
81. Finally complete the first 100 Snapshots list.
82. Have a game night with mom, nana, Aunt Erin, Aunt Gail and Bonnie. [8/9/09]
83. Start and complete a puzzle of 1000 or more pieces. [0/1]
84. Make a list of 25 things I appreciate about myself.
85. Make a list of 25 things I want in a guy.
86. Invent an alter-ego and write a journal entirely as this persona.
87. Scream from the 86th floor observation terrace of the Empire State Building.
88. Set up an account on Etsy.com and sell at least five random things. [0/5]
89. Go a whole week without swearing once. [0/1]
90. Give one oral report in school where I’m not nervous or shy.
91. Meet Nadia and have our LOTR/LOST marathons/epic hangout.
92. Meet Jessi and do everything we’ve planned so far.
93. Actually go on the epic road trip I’ve planned with Mari.
94. Leave flowers on the graves of five people I don’t know. [0/5]
95. Visit Berlin, Germany.
96. Organize iTunes/my iPod.
97. Write a poem every month for a year, starting in January of 2010.
98. Take better notes in class during senior year so I’m not struggling during midterms/finals time.
99. Find one thing that makes me laugh everyday and write about it for an entire year, starting in January of 2010.
100. Do Project 365 in 2010.
101. Somehow describe how I completed each task on the list once it is completed.
Starting date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009.
Ending date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012.
