DayZeroProject

Hello everyone and – although you’re all probably quite tired of hearing it - a late happy new year from the both of us!

I bet all of you have fancy stories to tell, as NYE is always quite exciting. I for example, unlike Griffith, celebrated New Year in France this year! Sounds rather awesome, doesn’t it? Well, it was.. unless you take in account the fact while Griffith was comfortably at home, sleeping late and recovering from the night before, I jumped into the sea the day after! Bloody hell, that was incredibly cold! Brr.. I’ll never be doing that again!

But fortunately, by doing that, I can now proudly say I’ve accomplished yet another of my 101 goals for the DayZeroProject. Woohoo, me!

If you haven’t heard of the DayZeroProject, it’s a project quite popular under bloggers, but other people as well, in which you have to make a list of 101 goals you want to accomplish in 1001 days (for the non-mathematicians among us, or those that prefer me to do all the counting for you, that’s about 2.75 years). Quite a long term project, yes, but it’s very motivating to do those little things which make you enjoy life, but you’ve never quite realised were important. In the beginning, when compiling the list, you’re probably going to come up with lots of heavy and difficult stuff such as ‘graduate’, ‘write a book’ or ‘move to Japan’, but you can’t possibly keep coming up with 101 of those examples. Silly little things such as climb a tree, only use your bicycle to travel for a week or walking along the beach during sunset are equally important.  Another popular goal is becoming a vegetarian for a month, or keeping your room clean for three months. Yes, it requires some persistence from you, but it also leaves you with a good feeling about yourself and it may actually become a habit! Being a vegetarian that is of course, not keeping your room clean. ;D

Yes, some of these are really hard to do, but it’s not a shame if you fail. If you’ve completed only 80% of your goals, that’s still good! Of course some goals, the little things, are really easy to do. Shooting with a bow and arrow, for example. It’s not something you would easily decide to do on a free afternoon, but if it’s on the list, you’re encouraged to. Because there’s a reason why you’re doing it, and you actually feel good after spending an afternoon at doing something you like.

The point is, this project stimulates you to think of things you’ve always wanted to do – may they be life-changing or just little – and, because of the limited time limit, stimulates you to do them as well! Two and a three quarters of a year is quite a long time, long enough not to completely have to change your lifestyle and dedicate it to accomplishing a goal like as ‘write a book’, but short enough to be encouraging to actually start it. You can’t put it off for too long, you’ll have to finish it within 1001 days!

Like me, Griffith has a list of goals as well, but it’s quite different from mine. One of my goals was actually to convince three other people to participate in the DayZeroProject, and she was one of my victims ;)

If you’ve been convinced to participate and make some goals of your own, which we really urge you to do because it’s quite awesome, you  can check out this site. Unfortunately, the site isn’t in the air at the moment, but be sure we’ll leave you a notice when it is. In the meantime, don’t be afraid to comment us what goals you’d want to achieve if you had 1001 days time.


However, it's incredibly hard to come up with interesting, realistic but challenging goals the rest of the world hasn't thought of yet. That's why we want you to comment the goal you look forward to completing most, or - if you've already completed your goals - the goal that you enjoyed doing most. I'm really interesting to find out how creative you all can be!

Signed,

Torino&Griffith.