How’s that Day Zero thingamajig going?

When I first started the Day Zero Project, I knew it was going to be a loose challenge. My goal, of course, was to complete the project in the 1,001 days one is alloted.

I think I’m out to a good start.

I have 700 days remaining in the challenge and through the first 301, I have completed 23 items. I haven’t blogged about them all yet as I need to take a few photos to go with some of them. There are 17 blogged about, however, and you can see each one on the Day Zero Project page.

I’ve learned some things from this project.

The first is that I have to be more conscious of the challenge itself. By that I mean I need to start thinking about the challenge more when I am out and about. A few times, I could have worked on one or two of these items, but didn’t think about it until it was too late. I think one thing I can do is to make a small card of all the items on the list, have it laminated and put it in my wallet.

Especially considering some are photo-related and it would be nice to know if I am going toward something.

For example, one of my photo goals is to take a picture for each letter of the alphabet. However, when doing this goal, it’s done to try and specifically take a photo for the challenge. So if I am out and about and have it in my mind and want to take photos of a beer (for the letter B), it’s in my head that I am doing that. What I actually might do is take a day to go take photos of the remaining letters (I’ve only taken A and B).

Part of my doing the challenge, too, is keeping the items secret (for the most part), so that I don’t feel pressure and also because if I screw something up, it’s more of a slap against myself.

Now, besides the 23 completed items, I have several more that have several things I need to do (for example, attend 10 community events) before I can check them off. A bunch of these are being worked on, so that’s helping, too. I have some other blogging and writing things I need to work on, too — some of which that require 20 or 30 blog posts over time, so I need to get to work on them!

There are some hard ones remaining on the list and a couple that I am going to scratch my head wondering if I will be able to finish them.

That’s part of the challenge.

This is one of those ones where if I don’t get all 101 things done, I’m not going to lose sleep. Believe me, my goal is to complete this list, but it’s a more of a personal thing for me to hopefully better myself in many different ways. Only time will tell how it works out.

I have found that it’s good to set some goals and go with them. The multi-part goals on the list have been good as it’s made me concentrate on putting things together. I’ve enjoyed some of the photography ones, too, as those are ones that challenge my artistic side.

Some of the goals are silly. Some are serious. Some are in the middle. But overall it’s an interesting challenge and I’ve had fun with it so far.

And I have 23 down.

Now there’s 78 to go.

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