101 / 1001

I am going to be trying the 101 / 1001 Challenge- also known as the Day Zero Project. Here's the list.

Help Others

Leave 25 encouraging notes for strangers

Influence a person to make a Day Zero list

Say something nice to someone every single day

Compliment five strangers

Make someone's day extraordinary

Donate to the OLL
Do ten nice things for people without telling them
Donate 3+ books to the library
Teach someone a new skill
Buy lunch for someone low on cash
Make someone smile... 50 times
Tell someone s/he's a good friend
Talk to someone in a group who looks out of place
Give a just-because present

Help Myself

Do stretches at least twice a week for a month

Learn some yoga or Pilates- at least six poses

Drink no soda for a month

Go a day without technology

Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years

Don't complain about anything for a week

Make a list of 100 things that make me happy

Eat a fruit and vegetable each day for two weeks

Spend a school-and-work free day outside

Say yes to everything for one day

Note one good thing that happens every day

Go to the dentist for a check up

Go a day without my cell phone

Make a promise to myself and keep it

Drink only water, milk, and tea for a week

Lotion every day for a week

Don't look in the mirror for 24 hours

Try a new vegetable

Try a new fruit

Try three new kinds of tea

Go a week without contacts

Go a day without makeup (and leave the house)

Go on a 30+ minute hike

Go a day without saying "disgusting," "ew," etc

Hobbies New and Old

Finish editing my second novel

Submit my novel to at least ten publishers / agents

Read all of the novels I own but haven't yet read

Practice viola four times weekly for a month

Read five new classics

Read Les Miserables

Read a book in French

Play through Handel's Concerto in B Minor

Finish the notebook I'm working on now

Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet

Learn a new Irish folk tale

Own 150 books

Learn a new poem

Enter a writing contest

Complete a new short story

Ice skate again
Win NaNoWriMo again
Meditate on a beach

Try New Things

Bake a cake

Make an entire dinner

Get my driver's license

Complete at least three freelancing jobs

Find a French pen pal

Go to the art museum

Write with my right hand for a day

Write a hand written letter to someone

Stay up all night

Go a day without sarcasm
Move out
Learn to French braid
Go three days without looking at a clock

Bake someone something for a birthday
Spend an entire day in pajamas
For a day, listen to only instrumental music
Do something spontaneous
Have a Tarot reading
Mail each of my grandmothers
Put a bright, improbable colour in my hair
Hang out with someone entirely new

Kick Bad Habits

Contact Dad once weekly for a month

Make and follow a budget

Clean out all of my drawers & stuff piles

Go a month without my card

No texting for three days (or reading texts)

Go a day without using my iPod's skip button

Miscellaneous

Contact an old friend

Replace my burned-out lightbulbs

Make a snow angel

Clean out my iPod

Listen to all of the songs on my iPod in alphabetical order

Do a headstand

Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day

Patch my holey jeans

Donate blood again

Solve a Rubik's Cube

Answer the "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind"

Finish this list

Take a Young Me Now Me picture http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/
Leave an anonymous confession somewhere
In one day, speak no more than 1000 words
Tell JM what a difference she's made in my life
Create a list of my screennames / passwords
Write a message in a public bathroom