101 Projects in 1001 Days.

Today I was feeling particularly motivated having just finished the rug I was crocheting. I stumbled upon Day Zero, a website created to inspire you to reach your goals (any goals, anything from the sesible to watching all the movies in a top 100 list or compleating extreme level on Left 4 Dead).

The mission: to complete 101 tasks in 1001 days.
The criteria: tasks must be specific with a result that is either measurable, or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of effort on your part).

So here is my list...

101 Projects in 1001 Days

Note: The ones in purple have been completed (23/101).
The ones in Italics and green are being done (8/101).
All others are yet to be completed.

Start: 16/04/2009 End: 12/01/2012

1. Sew a quilt.
2. Make a complete set of reusable shopping bags (5).
3. Stop accepting plastic shopping bags.
4. Take the wardrobe re-fashion pledge for 2mths (1st May ’09 to 1st July ’09).
5. Take the wardrobe re-fashion pledge for 6mths.
6. Sew a dress and wear it out.
7. Spend a nite or two at Tirritirri Matangi.
8. Volunteer at the Zoo. - I'm helping trap rats.
   
9. Graduate with a Bachelor of Design, Spatial Design.
10. Take a pattern-making course.
11. Regularly post and sell my crafts.
12. Post at least 3 times a week on Weka Live Here.
13. Maintain daily diary entries.
14. Attend a Napier Art Deco weekend.
15. Travel to New York or Tokyo.
16. Visit Melbourne.
17. Visit China.
18. Make 5 Buntings (flags on string) and sell or give away (0/5).
19. Make 5 pairs of baby boots and sell or give away (0/5 ).
20. Release 1 book every 2 months (Book Crossings) (0/18). - can't bear to part with my books!
    
21. Record spending of joint account.
22. Record my spending.
    
23. Limit non-essential clothes spending to less than $1000 a year.
24. Sew a full-length housecoat.
25. Learn to sew a pair of underwear.
26. Go camping. (went camping at Tawhitokino Bay).
    
27. Go swimming once a week during winter.
28. Keep our energy usage below 50kWhs a day at least 90% of the time.- installed a pot belly that helps with heating and has lowered the amount of electricity we use greatly.
    
29. Put up lined curtains in the living room. -Decided our place looks better without curtains.
    
30. Use libraries, borrowing or second hand stores for all my fiction-reading needs for 2009. - I'm pretty much addicted now, all those books free!
    
31. Finish all uni projects with at least a day up my sleeve.
32. Go to Bethlles coffee cart.
33. Read all of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (5/37).
34. Read all of the Obernewtyn Chronicles (3/6)
35. Read 250 books (roughly 1 every 4 weeks) (24/250)
    
36. Take up Yoga.
37. Dye my hair. - A kind of red-purple :)
38. Get an income.
39. Learn some German.
40. Get a firearms licence.
41. Make an outdoor table. - no need any more, m+p gifted one to us.
    
42. Make some bench seats.
43. Install a swing in the Oak.
    
44. Get/Build Penny a coop. - penny took care of this... she moved in with the neighbours chooks.
    
45. Travel further up the Auckland west coast.
46. Obtain a digital toy camera. (perhaps a Digital Harinezumi)
47. Move the bedroom to actual master bedroom.
48. Move Workroom to room off living room.
49. Make ironing room/walk-in wardrobe.
50. Start a darkroom in the basement.
51. Do not buy gifts in 2010.
52. Try a recipe from my Indian cookbook.
53. Go on a trip with friends to Waiheke.
54. Make home-made marshmallows.
55. Bake something. (Bread, cupcakes... anything). - baked cupcakes... a little burnt but still yummy.
56. Register my own business.
57. ...
    

as you can see I haven't quite got to 101 projects but I'll keep updating the post as I go.

So why don't you give it a go? Day Zero