Thursday, June 3, 2010

Day One of Day Zero

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).

So my friend Suzy has inspired me to create my very own Day Zero Project. She created one a week or so ago and you can read all about it here. If you know me, you know I make lists... I consider it my own type of therapy. Making this list was fun and completing it will be challenging! Check out my list and follow along with me as I attempt to complete 101 tasks by February 28th, 2013.
 
  1. Get scuba certified
  2. Go skydiving
  3. Visit Libby in London
  4. Fast from solid food for 1 week
  5. Go to a Dallas Cowboy game
  6. Go to a Dallas Cowboy game at the new Dallas stadium
  7. Spend a weekend alone on a retreat
  8. Turn my cell phone off for a weekend
  9. Go to church with my Mom
  10. Run a 5k
  11. Run a 5k in less than 23 minutes
  12. Have a dinner party for more than 10 people
  13. Get a new tattoo
  14. Get a puppy
  15. Come up with a great name for my puppy
  16. Catch a fish
  17. Do 20 consecutive push ups
  18. Go to a wine tasting
  19. Take an adult education class
  20. Take 5 piano lessons
  21. Write a letter for myself to read in 2020
  22. Buy a plant
  23. Keep a plant alive
  24. Play a round of golf with my Dad
  25. Go rock climbing
  26. Visit AJ in college
  27. Have a sleepover with Kyla
  28. Get together with my step-sisters
  29. Take the Glassford family to dinner
  30. Run a mile in the sand
  31. Detail my car myself
  32. Send personalized Christmas cards
  33. Go to yoga
  34. Make dinner for my second family, the Casey's
  35. Go to the beach with my Mom
  36. Eat in a restaurant alone (without a laptop, book or phone)
  37. Read an entire book in a day
  38. Volunteer at a Soup Kitchen
  39. Learn to change the oil in my car
  40. Take Carter and Jonah to the zoo
  41. Eat lunch with Kyla at her school
  42. Surprise someone with ice cream
  43. Blog about each completed task
  44. Write a letter of forgiveness to someone from my past
  45. Take a CPR class
  46. Sponsor a child in Haiti
  47. Bake cookies from scratch
  48. Bake cookies for my neighbors
  49. Go on a vacation with Maria (just the two of us)
  50. Go kayaking
  51. Re-do my website
  52. Enter a writing contest
  53. Go camping
  54. Give to a friend for a mission trip
  55. Buy new office furniture
  56. Make new business cards
  57. Get a massage, faciail, and mani/pedi in the same day
  58. Visit the Farmer's market
  59. Give up meat for a month
  60. Read the Bible with a reading plan
  61. Go on a hike with Kevin and listen to him tell me everything he knows
  62. Go shopping with Sean
  63. Finish Beth Moore's Living Beyond Yourself Study
  64. Have a sleepover with my Crave small group
  65. Swim in the ocean in the dark
  66. Send someone a card with a hundred dollar bill just because
  67. Try a new recipe
  68. Purge my closet
  69. Have a garage sale
  70. Babysit for Layla & play every game she wants
  71. Make a journal that is filled with people to pray for
  72. Buy new shelves
  73. Collect 10 antique books for new shelves
  74. Do a craft project with Bethany Milby
  75. Buy the Milby's a date & babysit the kiddos
  76. Take Max & Emily out for the Cabrera's to have a stay-date
  77. Take Carter out for ice cream
  78. Memorize the book of James
  79. Make a journal with prayers full of scripture
  80. Visit the Liekweg's
  81. Watch the sunrise and the sunset in the same day
  82. Stargaze
  83. Find my own outdoor sactuary
  84. Install Russian Rosetta Stone
  85. Donate to locks-for-love
  86. Take a personal trainer lesson
  87. Go to the Seminole Indian Casino with Dad & Maria
  88. Host a tea party
  89. Learn to tie a tie
  90. Learn a song on the guitar
  91. Dance in the rain
  92. Identify 100 things that make me happy
  93. Watch 10 "classic" movies picked out by the Henley's
  94. Go Salsa Dancing
  95. Find an intern for my business
  96. Take a spontaneous road trip
  97. Go to a Gator game
  98. Buy myself flowers
  99. Learn to drive a stick-shift
  100. Host a foreign exchange student
  101. Pay off my car

 

1 comment:

Libby said...

just so you know, you might have to complete #3 on this list before March 2012 as that's when my visa expires. love you. good luck.
Libby