This is a nice little project called “Day Zero Project” . It’s about achieving 101 personal goals within 1001 days.

They have to be specific and the result has to be measurable. I started my list May 9th, 2009.

1. Drink 10 cups of water every day for at least 3 months straight (update may 21st, 2010: i’m working on it and doing good)

2. Go to the dentist 3 times (3/3)

3. Go to the gym twice a week

4. Get a massage. actually got 6 in a row

5. Identify 50 things that make me happy (50/50)

6. Identify 50 things that I’m thankful for go check here. it’s been 500 already

7. Identify 50 things that I like about myself

8. Establish quality time meetings with friends once a month 

9. Establish a romantic date for only us two once a month

10. Travel to Israel

11. Travel to Spain

12. Travel to Rome

13. Open Etsy shop Done November 22, 2010

14. Sell 10 things from Etsy shop yaay

15. Volunteer for charity Race for the CureSeptember 27th, 2009

16. Donate blood

17. Send flowers to people I love just because

18. Win something! Anything! done! view here…

19. Read 100 books (60/100)

20. Go the movies once a month for 6 months

21. Get a new iMac done November 17th

22. Try something I swore I’d never eat Did it – ate mussels and now I know why I never wanted to eat them….

23. Go to a theme park

24. Make a painting

25. Take a Spanish or Portugese class

26. Organize my digital pictures on my computer 

27. Get a SLR camera

28. Take random pictures of Frankfurt

29. Put aside 50 Euros a month for 6 month and then go shopping

30. Write 10 handwritten letters (10/10)

31. Take a walk on a beach did this in Portugal and Sardinia 2010

32. Take a walk in the rain without umbrella done June 7th, 2009

33. Do not buy anything for myself for a whole month

34. Go to the opera twice (1/2)

35. Take a picture a day for a month and describe it. Put it on shuttercal.com

36. Go rock climbing

37. Write Christmas and birthday cards to family and friends and send them by post did it 2010

38. Get a new tattoo

39. Write a letter to myself in the future

40. Talk to granny about her past

41. Talk to dad about his past

42. Talk to mom about her past

43. Sleep under stars

44. Buy a piece of art

45. Make someone proud of me

46. Play Minigolf done in Kempten August 2009

47. Get a daruma M got me one for Christmas :-)

48. Get personal finances in order

49. Get a facial

50. Go floating what an experience!

51. Make a difference in someone’s life

52. Put all collected quotes into a book and print it 20 times

53. Give the book to friends and family

54. Create a lifetime scrapblog

55. Make a lifetime wishlist

56. Go skinny dipping

57. Have an idea no one had ever before

58. Fast for a week done in July 2010 for 6 weeks

59. Learn Illustrator or Indesign

60. Go to Coloria and paint some china

61. Travel to US Westcoast

62. Sew a dress done for my little niece

63. Sew a quilt

64. Build a sand castle

65. Travel to Italy (not Rome)

66. Read the “Divina Comedia”

67. Watch 5 italian movies

68. Redesign the blog

69. Sell old bike and get a new one bought in may, sold in july

70. Make a photo book

71. Go to a concert went to see THE GOSSIP with my Mom November 2010!

72. Visit 10 cities I’ve never been before (Kempten, Hamburg, Lisbon, Cascais, Andernach, Bremen, Munich)

73. See a movie in 3D

74. Make a bike-tour

75. Change clothing style

76. Meet a blogger friend met Steffi from OhhhMhhh in Hamburg in December 2010

77. Visit 5 different museums I’ve never been before (0/5)

78. Go to a stand-up comedy show

79. Throw a birthday bash for my 30. birthday

80. Do something no one expected from me

81. Join a club

82. See a drive-in movie

83. Have dinner in 50 different Restaurants in Frankfurt (11/50)

84. Find the perfect little black dress

85. Go to a hairdresser and get a great haircut July 2010

86. Go strawberry picking with Natalie

87. Take 10 nice shots that include bokeh (1/10)

88. Bake a birthday cake with fondant and all kinds of decoration

89. Get a ring

90. Interview a local shop owner

91. Break a habit

92. Get a new habit

93. Go to a book signing

94. Make an iTunes playlist with my 100 favorite songs ever

95. Run the “Race for a Cure”

96. Get or make some paintings for the apartment

97. Cook a 3 course meal for 4 people

98. Go for mushrooms

99. Go hiking on a very high mountain

100. Spend 3 € for each fulfilled task

101. Donate 3 € for each unfulfilled task


3 comments

1 Stephanie | 03.17.11 at 13:58

I love this! What a great idea. I think it is great that you have cross off so many things on your list. Keep up the great work!

2 Cristina Becchio | 10.18.11 at 12:16

hallo Lou

oje scheint als hättest du mir meine Liste geschrieben…Zahnarzt (Hilfe panik!!!!) Work out….finds total witzig und werde mich daranmachen eine eigene Liste zu machen! Hast du das alles wirklich brav gemacht? ;)
Lieber Gruss
Cristina

lou sagt: ciao cristina. ich muss sagen, ich habe meine zahnarztangst dieses jahr überwunden, weil meine neue ärztin wirklich toll ist. zum workout bin ich noch immer nicht gekommen :-) also keine panik! im befolgen von listen bin ich auch nicht die beste :-)

3 cara tortuga | 02.01.12 at 09:14

wow! you are doing so many things! I only have 12 goals for 2012, I think I would have to expand the list… it´s not a big challenge :( But I can help you with your spanish leson! maybe it would be one of my new goals: “help someone to achieve her goals” :D
A hug from a spanish girl in Italy ^ ^
I love your new bike ;)

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