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