Day Zero Project

So I stumbled across this website via a friend's blog I was reading the other day, and I won't lie, I've been thinking hard about it ever since. I finally decided I'm going to do it: 101 goals in 1001 days (about 2 3/4 years). After quite a bit of thought, here's the goals I came up with:

1. Read all the standard works
2. Be on the Dean’s List
3. Read the triple combination in Spanish
4. Pay off my student loans
5. Give away three pass-along cards
6. Stop biting my nails
7. Think of 5 people who have made a difference in my life and write them a letter
8. Visit my grandpa once a week for three months
9. Write in my journal at least three times a week for three months
10. Learn how to play 10 songs well on the guitar
11. Throw a dart on a map and go to where it lands
12. Let my hair grow for a full year
13. Run a half marathon
14. Document all 101 goals with a picture and caption in a scrapbook
15. Visit 3 new states
16. Get married
17. Pay for someone’s meal behind me in the drive-thru
18. Kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s Eve
19. Go snowshoeing
20. Make a quilt
21. Have 7 friends suggest a book and read them all
22. Splatter-paint a wall
23. Refinish a piece of furniture
24. Learn to cook something new every month and save the recipes
25. Ride a jetski/waverunner
26. Tie a note to a balloon and let it go
27. Do a random act of kindness every day for a month
28. Make and decorate cookies shaped like zoo animals
29. Go barefoot for a whole day
30. Buy a lottery ticket
31. Learn how to swim correctly
32. Keep a dream journal for a month
33. Kiss in the rain
34. Knit a scarf
35. Take a First Aid class
36. Write to my grandparents at least twice a month for a year
37. Master the art of driving a stick shift
38. Choose the songs to the soundtrack of my life
39. Carve my initials on a tree
40. Visit 15 different temples
41. Go two weeks without spending money
42. Learn how to play soccer
43. Leave five dollars in a library book for someone to find
44. Attend four extracurricular lectures
45. Answer/call back all my phone calls for a week
46. Write a song
47. Open a cookbook randomly and make that recipe
48. Make a list of 101 things that make me happy
49. Go to a professional sporting event
50. Keep a blessings calendar every day for 1001 days
51. Make a time capsule for myself in 10 years
52. Kiss in the snow
53. Sleep and eat outside for a week
54. Go to a “real” concert
55. Learn to identify 3 constellations in each season’s sky (12 total)
56. Ask someone on a date
57. Plan a healthy diet and stick to it for a month
58. Do the temple work for my great-aunt Margaret
59. Write to three family members on my mom’s side
60. Start a new tradition
61. Start my family history
62. Visit an extended family member I haven’t seen in a long time
63. Visit a butterfly garden
64. Attend the midnight premiere of a movie
65. Have a mud fight
66. Save 10% of my income for 6 months
67. Learn how to sew basic clothing
68. Take an interior design class and redecorate a room
69. Read 5 church-related books
70. Floss my teeth every night for a month
71. Fly a kite
72. Take a self-defense class
73. Save $10 for every goal I complete
74. Participate in a service project a week for three months
75. Go to Festival of Colors
76. Go on a multi-day biking trip
77. Read the Ensign every month for a year
78. Learn and master the art of baking bread
79. Learn the basics of amateur photography
80. Take, edit, and frame a picture
81. Watch the evening news or read the newspaper every day for a month
82. Complete and internship
83. Own a little black dress
84. Get a pedicure
85. Learn how to can fruits and vegetables
86. Grow a garden
87. Go camping with friends
88. Make a budget and stick to it for a month
89. Take a finance class
90. Make three different kinds of pie from scratch
91. Learn how to say “I love you” in 16 different languages
92. Document my nativity collection
93. Go skinny dipping
94. Put my wishes in a bottle and throw it into the ocean
95. Hike Mt. Timpanogos
96. Go rock climbing
97. Read 5 classic books
98. Sort, organize, edit, and scrapbook my Spain pictures
99. Get a scholarship
100. Write something and submit it for publication
101. Spend three minutes a day thinking only positive thoughts about myself for a month.