Hundred — landing grid

Art

kit: Studio · layout: zine · 10 pages

For people who want drawing to happen on ordinary days. Entry point: the daily-practice and art-accountability searches around The 100 Day Project.

You drew once. A hundred days to draw again. Coming back to drawing after years away /art/returning-after-years/ The hundred days that fit after work Drawing in the evening, after a full working day /art/after-work/ A hundred days where nobody is ahead of you Measuring your page against everyone else's feed /art/comparing-yourself/ Permission for a hundred mediocre drawings When every page is supposed to be worth keeping /art/good-enough/ Your second run at a hundred days You started a hundred days once and stopped near day thirty /art/tried-before/ No course, no curriculum, a hundred days anyway No course, no teacher, no plan for the week /art/no-plan/ Drawing alone is the part that fails Drawing with nobody waiting for the page /art/drawing-alone/ A hundred days that leave a record Drawing that nobody sees, including you /art/sketchbook-drawer/ A hundred days that are not for a client Drawing all day for clients, nothing left for your own work /art/working-illustrator/ A hundred days in the gaps the children leave Drawing in the gaps a household leaves /art/parent-hours/

Code

kit: Terminal · layout: terminal · 10 pages

For people who keep restarting a coding habit. Entry point: the #100DaysOfCode movement.

A hundred days of code, counted one evening at a time Self-taught, learning after work /code/self-taught/ Switching into code without quitting first Switching careers, studying around a job /code/career-switcher/ The degree grades the theory. The hundred days are for the keyboard. CS student with nothing of their own built /code/cs-student/ A hundred days of building instead of watching Course after course, still stuck at the blank file /code/tutorial-hell/ Day 1 of Python is easy. The rest is why this exists. Learning Python, course bought, stalled early /code/python-100-days/ A hundred days of practice, including the days you don't feel like it Interview practice that keeps stopping and restarting /code/interview-prep/ Day 1 again, with the part that broke it last time handled Tried the challenge once, stopped in the first fortnight /code/second-attempt/ Getting back to code after a long time away Returning to code after months or years away /code/back-after-a-break/ The job pays you. It stopped teaching you around month four. First dev job, learning flat since onboarding /code/junior-dev/ A hundred days of code in whatever the evening leaves Learning to code around small children /code/parent-hours/

Down payment

kit: Blueprint · layout: checklist · 10 pages

For renters aiming at a first home. Entry point: the house savings challenge and down payment tracker searches people already run.

Saving for a house while renting, one logged day at a time Renting now, saving for the first place /downpayment/renting/ A hundred-day savings challenge that both of you actually run Two people, one house fund /downpayment/couple/ One salary, one house fund, a hundred counted days Buying alone, on one salary /downpayment/one-income/ You asked how long it takes. Here is the first hundred days of it. Working to a twelve-month horizon /downpayment/one-year/ You already know the number. This is the challenge around it. A number already in mind /downpayment/target-amount/ A down payment tracker that notices when you stop filling it in The printables and apps stopped working /downpayment/tracker/ The hundred days before anyone looks at your statements Tidying the habits before applying /downpayment/mortgage-ready/ Behind the schedule you set yourself, starting anyway Starting later than you meant to /downpayment/feeling-behind/ You saved it once and then it went. A hundred days, counted this time. Saved it once, spent it, starting again /downpayment/after-a-slip/ A hundred-day challenge for the house deposit Saving for a deposit in the UK or Ireland /downpayment/uk-deposit/

Language

kit: Phrasebook · layout: split · 10 pages

For people who already practise daily and still cannot speak. Entry point: three months of daily work, counted as a hundred days.

Three months of Spanish, built out of ordinary mornings Spanish from scratch, around a full-time job /language/spanish-from-zero/ Every day for three months, on top of the Spanish you already own School Spanish, years later, still passive /language/spanish-after-school/ English every day for three months, because the meetings will not wait English for work, when the meeting is the hard part /language/english-for-work/ Three months of French, counted in days you actually did it French, for the person who restarts every January /language/french-again/ Three months of German, including the six days between classes German in the six days between classes /language/german-between-classes/ Japanese every day for three months, then you decide about the next three Japanese, where the horizon is measured in years /language/japanese-daily/ You already practise every day. Three months of it counting for something. For the long streak that never turned into speech /language/past-the-streak/ Three months of speaking every day, after years of only listening Years of listening, nothing said out loud /language/years-of-input/ Three months back at it, after however long you were away Back to a language after years away /language/starting-again/ Every day of your first three months in the new country Learning the local language after the move /language/moving-abroad/

Meditation

kit: Quiet · layout: calendar · 10 pages

For people whose practice keeps lapsing. Entry point: daily sitting, journaling and morning-routine searches.

You did not lapse because the app was bad The app is installed, the practice is not /meditation/app-that-stopped-working/ The day after the missed day is the only one that matters One missed day ends the whole thing /meditation/all-or-nothing/ Ten minutes is not the problem. Every morning is Ten minutes before the day starts /meditation/ten-minutes-morning/ The sit ends when you write the line about it Journaling alongside the sit /meditation/journal-and-sit/ You already know how. That was never the missing part Returning after a long lapse /meditation/back-after-years/ A practice that fits between two meetings, or it does not happen Desk work, full calendar /meditation/between-meetings/ The quiet hour is not coming back this year Parents with small children /meditation/parent-of-small-children/ A subscription you never open is just a reminder that you meant to Paying for an app you barely open /meditation/guilt-subscription/ Both previous attempts ended the same way, and it was not dramatic Two honest attempts, two quiet exits /meditation/tried-twice-quit-twice/ January is not the hard part. March is The January restart, held past February /meditation/new-year-restart/

No-spend

kit: Ledger · layout: dashboard · 10 pages

For people who keep restarting a no-spend month. Entry point: no-spend challenge, tracker and printable searches.

The strict month works. The week after it is the problem The strict month, then the rebound /nospend/month-that-rebounds/ You are not buying the thing. You know that already Shopping does a job other than shopping /nospend/shopping-as-comfort/ The order gets placed at the exact moment you have nothing left Takeaway three times a week /nospend/delivery-habit/ The money conversation only happens when it is already a problem Two people, one set of numbers /nospend/two-people-one-budget/ The plan is fine. The middle of it is what breaks people Repayments, month after month /nospend/paying-down-debt/ Every time you leave the house it costs forty Seeing friends always costs forty /nospend/social-life-costs/ Monthly budgets assume a monthly salary Freelance income, uneven months /nospend/irregular-income/ You have four trackers and all of them stop around day twelve Printables and trackers that stop mid-February /nospend/tracker-that-went-blank/ Most of the spending in this house is not discretionary A household with children in it /nospend/saving-with-kids/ A hundred days from January does not end on the thirty-first No-spend January, for the third year /nospend/january-again/

Reading

kit: Library · layout: editorial · 10 pages

For adults who want to read books again and keep stalling. A hundred days that count days, not books.

A hundred days to get back into books Years out of reading, every tip already tried /reading/slump/ The book loses to the phone about four minutes in The phone wins the evening, every evening /reading/phone-wins/ Getting back the reader you used to be Used to read constantly, then quietly stopped /reading/used-to-read/ The stack grows faster than you read it A shelf of bought books, none of them opened /reading/unread-stack/ The counter was supposed to motivate you and it did the opposite Missed the yearly book-count goal, again /reading/missed-the-number/ Starting from four minutes a night, if four minutes is what there is Reading again after burnout, starting from minutes /reading/after-burnout/ You do not have an evening. You have fifteen minutes and you are tired. A parent whose evening is never actually free /reading/no-free-evening/ Everything gets to page eighty and stops Starts books, abandons them around the middle /reading/half-finished/ The intention holds. The sitting-down does not. Reading with ADHD, when attention will not hold /reading/adhd/ Reading with people, without waiting for the monthly meeting Wants to read alongside people, without a local club /reading/reading-alone/

Relocation

kit: Departure · layout: timeline · 10 pages

For people whose move abroad exists as a list nobody has started. Entry point: checklist, timeline and country-specific searches.

The move is not stalled for lack of a checklist The checklist exists, the move does not /relocation/list-nobody-started/ A year of reading, and the first item is still open Two hundred open tabs, nothing decided /relocation/analysis-paralysis/ In Dubai, nothing can be done out of order Moving to Dubai, in order /relocation/dubai-sequence/ A year is exactly enough time to do nothing Portugal, roughly a year away /relocation/portugal-year-out/ The date is set and the current job has not stopped Moving with a job offer in hand /relocation/netherlands-with-a-job/ One of you is doing all of it, and both of you know Two people, one move /relocation/moving-as-a-couple/ The paperwork is not what you are afraid of The fear of arriving with nobody there /relocation/afraid-of-arriving-alone/ Nothing about your job forces this move to happen Keeping the job, changing the country /relocation/remote-work-move/ The move has to land between two school years A move with school dates in it /relocation/moving-with-children/ It has been next year for three years The move that has been next year for three years /relocation/postponed-three-times/

Running

kit: Track · layout: poster · 10 pages

For people whose running dies between the plan and the doorstep. Entry point: the hundred-day challenge and the run streak.

Day 1 of a hundred, starting from zero Never run before, starting at day 1 /running/from-zero/ A hundred days back into running Ran regularly once, stopped months ago /running/back-after-a-break/ Your streak broke. Start the next hundred. Streak runner whose count went to zero /running/streak-restart/ A hundred days that start before they wake Parent running in the hour before the house wakes /running/before-the-house-wakes/ A hundred days that survive your calendar Full calendar, frequent travel, running last /running/desk-job/ A hundred days and one 5k First 5k entered, date in the diary /running/first-5k/ You used to run. Day 1 is today. Ran at school or university, not since /running/used-to-run/ A hundred days, weather included Winter, dark mornings, rain as the deciding vote /running/bad-weather/ Run alone, count it with other people Runs solo, motivation runs out first /running/running-alone/ You have quit a streak before. This one is counted. Tried a streak or challenge before and dropped it /running/quit-before/

Writing

kit: Letter · layout: letter · 10 pages

For writers who can start a draft and cannot keep one running. Entry points: the stalled manuscript, the daily habit, and a November that lost its organiser.

The draft that stopped at chapter eleven Half a novel, stalled past the middle /writing/unfinished-novel/ November still means writing. It has no address any more. November without NaNoWriMo /writing/nanowrimo-alternative/ You have done this before, and it ended in week two Has quit a writing challenge before /writing/failed-a-challenge/ The document opens. Then an hour goes by. Sits down and produces nothing /writing/blank-page/ Waiting for the mood has a price you can count Writes only when the mood is right /writing/only-when-inspired/ Morning pages are easy to start and easy to stop Morning pages, kept past the first fortnight /writing/morning-pages/ Six in the morning is the only hour nobody else wants Writes in the hour before work /writing/before-work/ The book has an outline, a folder, and no writing days Writing a non-fiction book around a job /writing/nonfiction-book/ You have been in writing groups. They met monthly and read work aloud. Tried writing groups, wants daily accountability /writing/accountability-group/ The spreadsheet is immaculate. The manuscript is not. Tracks word counts, still misses the days /writing/word-count-tracker/