The Day Zero Project

Goals Completed:
2/101

What is the Day Zero Project?
Read the "About" page on their website

What is the time frame for my personal Day Zero Project? 
May 1, 2012 to January 27, 2015

What are the 101 goals I'm attempting to complete in the next 1,001 days?
I divided my goals into six different categories:

Books/Writing
1) Write my manifesto
2) Read War and Peace
3) Read the Lord of the Rings trilogy
4) Spend a few hours reading under the "troll bridge" at Letchworth State Park
5) Complete an independent research project
6) Write a blog chronicling my Day Zero Project (IN PROGRESS)
7) Read 200 books (IN PROGRESS) (5/200)
8) Complete NaNoWriMo
9) Keep a journal for a year
10) Buy a Wreck This Journal and finish it
11) Write one haiku a day for a year
12) Read 100 non-fiction books (IN PROGRESS) (3/100)

Financial
13) Create a budget and stick to it
14) Have at least $1,000 in savings
15) Save $10 for every task I complete
16) Pay off my debt
17) Become financially stable
18) Start a change jar

Fun
19) Watch a meteor shower
20) Complete a coloring book
21) Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the alphabet (IN PROGRESS) (1/26)
22) Carve a pumpkin for Halloween
23) Learn how to dance
24) Ride in a hot air balloon
25) Complete a 365 day photo challenge
26) Find a new hobby (COMPLETED: May 2012)
27) Go to a concert
28) Be an extra in a movie or TV show
29) Lay flowers on Edgar Allan Poe's grave
30) Memorize "The Raven"
31) Relearn all 50 states and their capitals
32) Take a cross-country road trip
33) Learn to tie a tie five different ways
34) Make an iTunes playlist of 101 of my favorite songs
35) Travel to another country
36) Go camping
37) Visit 10 states I've never been to before
38) Watch every Stanley Kubrick film (0/13)
39) Build a blanket fort
40) Eat at 10 restaurants I've never been to before (IN PROGRESS) (8/10)
41) Go on a picnic
42) Have a Star Wars marathon
43) Host a dinner party
44) Cook my way through a cookbook
45) Learn how to read tarot cards
46) Go to a planetarium
47) Attend a midnight screening of a movie
48) See an opera
49) See the Northern Lights
50) Go stargazing

Health/Well-Being
51) Run a mile
52) Quit smoking
53) Get health insurance
54) Lose at least 75 lbs (0/75)
55) Start riding a bike again
56) Become a vegetarian
57) Hike at least once a week one summer
58) Do yoga every day for a month
59) Exercise at least twice a week for six months
60) Meditate once a week for a year
61) Do a sponsored run/walk for charity
62) Go to bed before 11 PM every night for a week
63) Get in the best shape of my life
64) Hike the Appalachian Trail
65) Eat at home every day for a month

Language
66) Improve my French
67) Improve my German
68) Improve my ancient Greek
69) Read at least five books in French
70) Learn a new language
71) Watch an entire season of a television show in French
72) Learn sign language

Self-Improvement
73) Wake up with my alarm every day (no snooze button) for a week
74) Play my viola for at least three hours every week for a month
75) Go green
76) Get rid of all the stuff I don't need
77) Become a minimalist
78) Move out of New York State
79) Get an NPR membership
80) Give up procrastination
81) Create an inspiration board
82) Identify 100 things that make me happy (IN PROGRESS) (2/100)
83) Send a secret to PostSecret
84) Do volunteer work at least once
85) Clean out my e-mail inboxes (COMPLETED: 5/15/12)
86) Do one thing a month that I have never done (IN PROGRESS)
87) Create a quote/inspiration book to carry around with me
88) Find a pen pal
89) Keep my room/apartment tidy for a whole year
90) Watch 10 documentaries
91) Stop interrupting people
92) Learn to drive a stick shift
93) Take a bartending class
94) Participate in a protest
95) Do something creative every month for a year
96) Complete the Happiness Project
97) Sop using plastic bags
98) Get my own apartment
99) Do 10 random acts of kindness (IN PROGRESS) (1/10)
100) Conquer a fear
101) Go an entire week without wearing a hat

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