Life: Day Zero Project

Earlier this year I saw a blog entry that Joy from How Joyful posted that really caught my attention and I decided to look further into it,  the Day Zero Project.  The project can be described as a realistic bucket list or a set of goals that one wants to achieve in a 3 year span.  I few years ago I decided to write a bucket list in one of my journals and have slowly been crossing things off but now I have decided that I want to join the Day Zero Project. I want to make more of my goals into a reality and I believe that this project will help.  This year has gone by so fast and there are so many things that I want to do and I feel that if I set a realistic timeline for them I will complete them.  So here goes nothing or perhaps everything...


If you want to learn more about the project go here.
For more inspiration go here, here, and here.


Here's my list:

For Others

1. Give blood at least twice a year. (0/6)

2. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.

3. Make Crème brûlée for my best friend.

4. Volunteer at Rescue Mission at least 6 times a year every year. (0/18)

5. Bake a cake to give to someone on a special occasion. (0/8)

6. Volunteer once a month for a year at a non-profit organization. (0/12)

7. Donate to a worthwhile charity twice a year every year. (0/6)

8. Donate my wedding dress. 

9. Donate things we don't use or need around the apartment. 

10. Recycle everything we possibly can in our apartment by installing recycling bins.

For Myself

11. Get an awesome job that I love.

12. Try kobe beef.

13. No social networks except blogging for an entire month. (0/30)

14. Get a facial every year. (I've never had one.) (0/3)

15. Learn French.

16. Get a massage every year. (0/3)

17. Not watch t.v. for an entire month. (0/30)

18. Learn mandarin.

19. Wear a two piece bathing suit at the beach.

20. Learn Italian.

For Health

21. Average at least 3 days a week at the gym for 6 months straight. (0/6)

22. Eat at home for 30 days straight. (0/30)

23. Sleep 8 hours a day for a month. (0/30)

24. Run Disney half marathon. 

25. Run Las Vegas half marathon.

26. Run the Los Angeles marathon.

27. Go walking with the hubby everyday for a month. (0/30)

28. Give up fried food for 6 months. (0/6)

29. Give up sweets (except fruit) for 3 months. (0/3)

30. Lose 50 pounds. (0/30)

31. Give up dairy for an entire month. (0/30)

Family, Friends, and Love

32. Get pregnant? (hm maybe).

33. Enter a sandcastle competition with family and friends.

34. Visit my parents once a month for a year. (0/12)

35. Work on genealogy tree for our family. 

36. Transfer all old family movies into DVD's.

37. Have game night at our apartment once a month for a year. (0/12)

38. Have dinner with my cousins and my best friend once a month for year. (0/12)

39. Have a cookie swap party at our apartment. 

40. Teach my little godson how to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch. 

Learn Creative Blog

41. Learn Photoshop.

42. Learn HTML.

43. Learn XHTML.

44. Learn Java.

45. Learn Excel.

46. Learn all the function in my DSLR.

47. Enter a photo competition.

48. Enter a baking competition.

49. Complete the 365 photo challenge.

50. Make our wedding photo album.

51. Re-decorate all rooms in apartment. (0/5)

52. Learn how to use all the features on my mac.

53. Blog at least once a week for 52 weeks. (0/52)

54. Make/bake colorful macarons.

55. Bake 20 recipes from the cookbook my aunt sent me from Mexico. (0/20)

56. Make a photo book for every year the hubby and I have been dating. (0/10)

57. Learn CPR.

58. Make/grow an indoor herb garden.

59. Carve a cool pumpkin for Halloween. 

60. Learn how to make tamales.

61. Organize all our photos. 

62. Redo the chair I found in the alley. 

63. Re paint our dresser drawer. 

64. Bake a cake and decorate with fondant.

65. Bake a cake and decorate it with royal icing. 

Entertainment and Travel

66. Visit the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 

67. Visit family in Kansas with mom.

68. Visit the Grand Canyon.

69. Visit Jalisco, Mexico.

70. Visit New York, NY.

71. Go camping to Yosemite.

72. Visit Guatemala with the hubby.

73. Go to Sequoia park with the hubby.

74. Go to Vegas with my parents, the hubby, and my in-laws. 

75. Go to the International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

76. Go on vacation with a group of friends. 

77. Go on a cruise with the hubby.

78. Visit Chihuahua, Mexico.

79. Visit another continent besides North America and Europe.

80. Go kayaking with the hubby. 

81. Go snowboard.

82. Go snorkeling.

83. Build a snowman. 

84. Go horseback riding. 

85. Go to a film festival.

86. Buy another lens for my camera.

87. Go to Monterrey Aquarium.

88. Go hiking in Point Lobos. 

89. Visit Big Sur.

90. Go paintball fighting with the hubby and friends. 

91. Visit my cousin at his architecture school. 

92. Visit Yellowstone. 

Business and Money

93. Open an Etsy Shop.

94. Save up for closing cost for a house.

95. Set up my own photography website.

96. Write out our living will.

97. Sell a cake.

98. Sell a photograph. 

99. Get sponsors for my blog. 

100. Get my own domain name. 

101. Write code for my own website. 

BONUS - Donate five dollars for every goal that I have not accomplished at the end of 1,001 days

Thanks Joy Kelley for inspiring me to do my list!