[MysteryPass]

Welcome to the Day Zero Project Society thread on The Student Room. If you have Day Zero account or something similar, you can post your list here and talk about your progress with others. If you're not sure what Day Zero is, then here's information about it from the official website:

The Challenge:

Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.

The Criteria:

Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).

Why 1001 Days?

Many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple challenges such as New Year's resolutions or a 'Bucket List'. The key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 Days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organising and timing some tasks such as overseas trips, study semesters, or outdoor activities.

For more information on the project, go to Day Zero Project

Useful Links.

Lists of Bests is a website where you can create lists about anything; your favourite places, food or your goals for life.

Mission 101 Live Journal helps people who are doing these types of challenges who can update and see each other's progress.

Don't forget to sign up to the Day Zero Project Society too!

Let's Start Posting!

Feel free to post your list, or make your list right here and just keep updating it if you get any more ideas. And remember to join the official society group too!

[MysteryPass]

My DZP Account
(Bold) means these tasks are completed.

1) Read 50 Books
2) Get another piercing
3) Renew my Passport
4) Take driving lessons
5) Don't eat fast food for a month
6) Don't eat chocolate for a week
7) Get to my ideal weight
8) Visit a country I've never been to before
9) Don't use the internet for a week
10) Spend a day at the beach
11) Get a massage
12) Go vegetarian for two weeks
13) Try sushi
14) Make a birthday cake for someone
15) Walk/Run 5k
16) Kiss in the rain
17) Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor
18) Complete my 366 Photo Challenge
19) Get to my two year goal of no fizzy drinks
20) Try a macaron
21) Watch the Super Bowl
22) Attend a live taping of a TV show
23) Make a comic strip
24) See the sunrise on the beach
25) Lose 35 pounds
26) Do yoga every day for a month
27) Write a short story
28) Exercise six days a week for a month
29) Re-write my CV
30) Learn to play chess
31) Don't eat after 6pm for two weeks
32) Use up 350 LUSH Products
33) Go on a picnic
34) Make a new friend
35) Watch the full box set of Numb3rs
36) Buy a bike
37) Drink only water for a month.
38) Go back to college
39) Use a pedometer for two months
40) Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for 6 months
41) Go to a movie by myself
42) Go for a walk in the rain
43) Grow some vegetables
44) Take part in NaNoWriMo
45) Get a new qualification
46) Write ten songs
47) Understand the rules of Basketball
48) Get some goldfish
49) Fill this list with 101 things
50) Buy flowers for myself for no reason
51) Read a whole book in one day
52) Eat 10 things I've never tried before
53) Give up something for Lent
54) Name a Star
55) Get measured for a bra
56) Attend a wedding
57) Go to the Planetarium
58) Do a perfect smokey eye
59) Send a handwritten letter
60) Finish a jigsaw puzzle
61) Buy a lottery ticket
62) Tweet 20,000 times
63) Read The Hunger Games Trilogy
64) Read the entire Chronicles of Narnia
65) Get a pedicure
66) Complete a cross stitch pattern
67) Throw out any old make-up
68) Learn how to say "I love you" in five different languages
69) Go to a concert
70) Dye my hair
71) Try four different tea flavours
72) Finish an entire cup of Green Tea
73) Find a perfect foundation for my skin tone
74) Write an essay for fun
75) Finish an entire lip balm
76) Get a Kindle
77) Have a dinner by candle light
78) Clean out my closet
79) Bake muffins
80) Curl my hair for an entire week
81) Organize my computer files
82) Take multi-vitamins for an entire month
83) Go a whole day without being sarcastic
84) Complete a Colouring Book
85) Go to the Aquarium
86) Read a self-help book
87) Exercise on the Wii every day for an entire month
88) Deliberately wear odd socks
89) Floss every night for a month
90) Go to a Tumblr Meet Up
91) Make a smoothie
92) Buy 10 Amazon Kindle Books
93) Have a consistent sleep schedule for at least 2 weeks
94) Get retweeted or mentioned by a celebrity
95) Dress my age
96) Send a Christmas Card in the post
97) Sort out student finance for college
98) Get a pair of sunglasses
99) Watch 10 documentary films
100) Subscribe to a magazine for a year
101) Follow a YouTube makeup tutorial and wear it in public
102) Complete the 30 Day Shred

[sammy-lou]

such a good idea! I'm starting this now

[MysteryPass]

92) Buy 10 Amazon Kindle Books

Bought Tina Fey's "Bossy Pants" on 15/04/12.

[MysteryPass]

35) Watch the full box set of Numb3rs
Finished the boxset early this morning. So sad it's ended ):

40) Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for 6 months
Started this today!

[kiss_me_now9]

Oh, I like this! I'm gonna go set myself an account up

[MysteryPass]

(Original post by sammy-lou)
such a good idea! I'm starting this now

(Original post by kiss_me_now9)
Oh, I like this! I'm gonna go set myself an account up

Can't wait to see both your lists!

[moomin_love]

It's taking me a lot longer to make my list than I thought it would! I worked out that my end date should be approximately 15th January 2015 so fingers crossed as many as these things get done as possible!

[MysteryPass]

(Original post by moomin_love)
It's taking me a lot longer to make my list than I thought it would! I worked out that my end date should be approximately 15th January 2015 so fingers crossed as many as these things get done as possible!

It took me a few weeks to completely fill the list, it's very tough. I didn't think it would be so difficult thinking of things.

[kiss_me_now9]

Done a small, 15 thing list for over summer - I don't have time to write a full 101 thing list right now, hence why it's on the mini list!

The mini list:
1 Run a 5K race
2 Complete a coloring book
3 Start a scrapbook
4 Write a message in a public bathroom
5 See a movie alone
6 Visit a butterfly sanctuary
7 Learn how to do a backflip
8 Make cookies shaped like teapots
9 Create an inspiration board
10 Write a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days!
11 Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
12 Organize my recipes
13 Do the 200 sit-ups challenge (www.twohundredsitups.com)
14 Donate blood
15 Make homemade bread

Runs from 19th of May (day after I leave my uni town for the summer) until 1st of October (day I get back for year 3).

Edit - I've added a final one, 'Attend the summer olympics'; bit of a cheat as I have tickets for the 3DE final but thought I'd bung it on there!

[Loveuraliens]

Amazing project! I have thought about writing some kind of bucket list now that I am going to do a gap year, and in my dreams I will do all the amazing stuff I have always wanted to do during my year in Germany :P

My list is not yet complete, but I am so exited about this already. Just making the list made me more motivated to start doing things

Here is the list now: (I am adding more stuff later)
1Visit Berlin GERMANY
2Visit the Black Forest GERMANY
3Put a love padlock on the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne and throw away the key in the river GERMANY
4Attend the Fasching, Carnival in Cologne GERMANY
5Attend the Love Parade in Berlin GERMANY
6Attend the Cannstatter Volkfest in Stuttgart GERMANY
7Attend Berlin Film Festival in February GERMANY
8Get drunk at the Munich Oktoberfest GERMANY
9Attend the Frankfurt Book Fair GERMANY
10Watch a play at a local theater
11Make a chalk mural in the driveway
12Develop a workout routine that doesn't require equipment
13Discover some new podcasts to listen to
14Do some guerrilla gardening
15Research my family tree
16Swim in a fountain
17Watch the sunrise and sunset in the same day
18Learn how to juggle
19Entertain the elderly at a nursing home
20Build a pinhole camera
21Build a robot
22Make a list of 101 quotes that inspire me
23Make a list of the top 5 people who have positively influenced me and write them letters
24Tie a secret to a balloon and let it go
25Learn to identify 10 constellations
26Listen to a new artist every day for a month
27Listen to 26 songs I've never listened to starting with each letter of the alphabet
28Write a message in a public bathroom
29Write to a Death Row inmate
30Peek at the blackened mummies in the Dom St. Petri's lead cellar GERMANY
31Visit the nuclear power plant turned theme park in Kalkar GERMANY
32Book a night inside the wacky Magdeburg building GERMANY
33Take a picture for each letter of the alphabet
34Take pictures in a photo booth
35Buy a good camera
36Carve my name on a tree
37Leave an inspirational note inside a book for someone to find
38Don't complain about anything for a week
39Send a message in a bottle
40get into university

[MysteryPass]

(Original post by kiss_me_now9)
(:

(Original post by Loveuraliens)
Amazing project! I have thought about writing some kind of bucket list now that I am going to do a gap year, and in my dreams I will do all the amazing stuff I have always wanted to do during my year in Germany :P.

Very nice lists both of you! And it doesn't matter if it's not 101, it can be as short or as long as you want. This project is actually keeping me motivated, which I need

[MysteryPass]

44) Take part in NaNoWriMo
I signed up to the website today, I know it's not until November, but it'll give me ideas and give me the chance to talk to others about it.

[Loveuraliens]

(Original post by MysteryPass)
44) Take part in NaNoWriMo
I signed up to the website today, I know it's not until November, but it'll give me ideas and give me the chance to talk to others about it.

Nice list you are having as well!
I tried nanowrimo this autumn, but I did not last for the month :/ It was fun though! Maybe I should try again...

[MysteryPass]

(Original post by Loveuraliens)
Nice list you are having as well!
I tried nanowrimo this autumn, but I did not last for the month :/ It was fun though! Maybe I should try again...

Thank you! It sounds really fun, but I've no idea where to start. Thankfully I love writing lists and drawing spider diagrams, so fingers crossed I'll have a good idea on what I want to write about in the next few months.

[Loveuraliens]

(Original post by MysteryPass)
Thank you! It sounds really fun, but I've no idea where to start. Thankfully I love writing lists and drawing spider diagrams, so fingers crossed I'll have a good idea on what I want to write about in the next few months.

I love lists and spider diagrams too! Probably the reason I am so into this project :P Good thing nanowrimo forums are full of ideas if you don`t get your own

[MysteryPass]

59) Send a handwritten letter
Letter is written, envelope is ready; just need to go to the Post Office to post it.

82) Take multi-vitamins for an entire month
Bought loads of multi vitamins a few months ago and just forgot to keep taking them some days. Started again this morning.

[MysteryPass]

75) Finish an entire lip balm
It was LUSH's Honey Trap. I've had it for about two years, and I think this is the first time I've ever finished an entire lip balm.

[moomin_love]

I've finally written my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days here it is!

1. Graduate from university with a 2:1 or a First
2. Read Anna Karenina
3. Read War and Peace
4. Get to 7 St 4 (Lost 3 St so far, just 1 and a half to go!)
5. Learn to pole dance
6. Get a job or internship in the industry I want to go into (got a reply today to an email so fingers crossed!)
7. Get an article published in something that has to be paid for
8. Get lots of followers on my blog
9. Make a Christmas cake
10. Do a triathlon
11. Go to America
12. Watch Breakfast at Tiffany's
13. Go to the Louvre
14. Complete NHS Couch to 5K (Start week 4 tomorrow so nearly half way through)
15. Do 200 sit ups: http://www.twohundredsitups.com/finaltest.html
16. Take a leading role in a club/society
17. Watch a show at Moulin Rouge
18. Go to Ascot ladies day
19. Go to Cannes Film Festival
20. Go to a carnival
21. Celebrate New Years Eve in London
22. Carve a pumpkin at Halloween
23. Go to Oktoberfest
24. Attend a masquerade ball
25. Cook a meal for my family
26. Get my fortune told
27. Take part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
28. Have afternoon tea
29. Be a member of a TV audience
30. Learn to identify at least 1 star constellation
31. Learn all the words to a rap song
32. Put vanilla pudding in a mayo container and eat in public
33. Visit Stonehenge
34. Go on the London Eye
35. Eat at a Vietnamese restaurant
36. Ride a segway
37. Get and look after a Bonsai Tree
38. Ride a banana boat
39. Read Bridget Jones's Diary
40. Wheel Throw Pottery
41. Spend a night at a Casino
42. Attend London Fashion Week
43. Go to Giraffe for breakfast and have Huevos Rancheros
44. Make a gingerbread house from scratch
45. Make sushi from scratch
46. Go to a film premiere at Leicester Square
47. Celebrate St Patrick's Day in Ireland
48. Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop
49. Drive my Dad's TVR
50. Spend Valentine's Day at Valentine's Chocolate Passion Fair on the Petit Sablon in Brussels
51. Speak French in France
52. Go skiing or snowboarding
53. Build a sandcastle
54. Learn to surf
55. Bake my own bread
56. Join a cheer leading squad
57. A Day at a Spa
58. Go to York
59. Make a sex tape
60. Dress up for my boyfriend
61. Get a brazillian wax
62. Attempt the jaffa cake world record (6 in one minute)
63. Dye my hair
64. Go to a water park
65. Ride in a limo
66. Go to Portobello Market
67. Go to a football match
68. Have breakfast at Yo Sushi
69. Look around the inside of Buckingham Palace
70. Try crocodile
71. Create a scrapbook of all my articles
72. Do a naked/underwear photoshoot
73. Smash up a pinata and eat all the sweets inside it
74. Donate to a charity
75. Learn to walk in heels without a problem
76. Buy something vintage
77. Make home-made ice cream
78. See Phantom of the Opera
79. Eat a supersize meal at Mcdonalds
80. Pull off an April's Fools Day prank
81. Get a polaroid camera and carry it with me everywhere for a year
82.Take a photograph of a rainbow
83. Create a personal travel map
84. Climb a mountain
85. Eat at a Michelin Star restaurant
86. Complete the AKC
87. Spend the whole day at the cinema
88. Watch the sun set at the top of Primrose Hill
89. Go to Bath Spa
90. Conquer my fear and drive across the bridge to Wales
91. Send a postcard to Post Secret
92. Spend no more than £10 a week on food for 1 month
93. Have a romantic candle lit dinner with my boyfriend
94. Keep a money journal for a month and learn how to stop spending so much money
95. Save up enough money so that I can buy my boyfriend a fitted suit when he gets his first proper job after uni
96. Go berry picking
97. Motivate myself to do uni work 9-5 for at least 1 week
98. Get back into painting and art
99. Read my book on the history of MI5
100. Throw a massive house party
101. Go on a trip with no predetermined destination

[MysteryPass]

72) Finish an entire cup of Green Tea
Finished an entire cup of Green Tea and Mint. I'm still not used to the taste, and it has a bad after taste.

94) Get retweeted or mentioned by a celebrity
Alimi Ballard retweeted me!