I've started this new bucket list sort of thing. My brother brought it to my attention and I thought it was really cool. Since I am trying to take more control of my life (actually live it and accomplish the things I want to, not just waste it away), I thought this was another great idea to get that done.
It is called the Day Zero Project. The basic concept is that you make a list of 101 things you want to accomplish in the next 1001 days. As you do them, you check them off. Goals can be little or big, take a long time to complete, or a few minutes. It is anything and everything you want to accomplish over the given amount of time.
One of my goals is actually recording this project in a blog or journal and taking a picture for every one of the goals that I complete. I am making this page to do just that. I will post a list of my goals and as I complete them I will cross them off and post a picture to commemorate it.
Bear with me, I am still in the process of making my list. I only have about 68 things so far. I have given myself a week to complete the list before I start the challenge on February 18, 2012.
So, here it is. Or you can visit www.dayzeroproject.com and search elli-m-f in the directory.
Hobbies and Interests
- Open an Etsy shop
- Learn to Sew
- Make a stuffed animal (specifically, Baby's firsts stuffed animal)
- Sell something I've created myself
- Finish a scrapbook
- Start a vegetable garden
- Create a booklist and finish it
- Keep a blog or journal of this challenge.
- Learn to play the piano again
- Make a handmade gift for everyone on my Christmas list
- Complete 52 Weeks of Pinterest
- Create my Critters Collection and donate a portion of proceeds to conservation efforts both locally and internationally.
- Buy 10 patterns off Etsy and make them
- Create a scrapbook for clippings from magazines of things I find interesting or want to try
- Make a pregnancy scrapbook
- Make a baby's first year scrapbook
- Give a handmade card
- Create something I can wear
- Get a sewing machine and learn how to use it
- Create my own designated craft area
- Plant a flower garden with a stone path
Photography
- Complete a 365 day photo challenge
- Take a photography class
- Take a photo of the same place every month for a year and then turn it in to a calendar for the next year
- Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
- Learn to use my DSLR properly
- Take pictures in a photo booth
- Take a photo to commemorate the completion of each goal
- Take a picture of my baby at the same time every month with the same stuffed animal
- Learn to use photoshop
- Do a professional photo shoot (where I am the photographer)
- Have a baby
- Spend one weekend "unplugged"
- Write a list of 100 things that make me happy
- Say "yes" to something I would normally not do
- Complete the 5000 Question Survey
- Have a natural birth
- Update wardrobe
- Grow out my hair
- Take my next set of Highland exams
- Get my driver's license
- Do a boudoir photo shoot
- Get pregnant again (a goal for the very end of the challenge)
- Put away $5 for each complete task
- Donate to an organisation
- Put aside _____ amount from each pay (We are starting with $50, but this will probably increase once things kind of settle down from buying all this stuff at once for the baby)
- Take a yoga class
- Lose all the baby weight
- Reach my goal weight
- Make a workout routine and stick to it
- Be vegetarian for a week
- Take a Zumba class
- No fast food or eating out for a month
- Make healthy, homemade snacks for Erik to take in to the field with him
- Take Erik and the baby to Winnipeg for the first time
- Get passport
- Go somewhere warm in the winter
- See a part of Canada I've never seen before
- Sleep under the stars
- Go on a picnic
- Go ice skating
- Host a dinner party
- Have dinner by candlelight
- Pick something at Hugli's (berries, pumpkins, etc.)
- Buy a fancy dress and wear it somewhere just because
- Create a booklist and finish it (must be at least 20 books)
- Kiss in the rain
- Wear a bikini
- Build a snowman
- Keep a blog or journal of this challenge
- Read to my baby everyday
- Complete a crossword puzzle book
- Adopt an animal from the OSPCA
- Go zip-lining
- Clean out the storage room completely
- Become a more Earth-friendly household
- Send someone a surprise package by mail
- Have a family game or movie night once a week
- Watch five old movies that I have never seen before ("old" means before I was born)
Also, this is the link to the blog I just made to record and write about all of my goals as I complete them. www.achievingnotjustliving.blogspot.com
