May 10, 2007
10:31 PM
I have decided to embark upon my own 30 day program. What 30 day program you ask? A program where you attempt to make a change or changes in some aspect of your behavior or your attitude by changing it for 30 days just to see how you feel at the end of the 30 day period.
What I’m leaning toward is writing for at least 30 minutes everyday or reading for at least 30 minutes to an hour every day or some combination of both. Others to consider would be only drink, water, tea, herb teas and juices for 30 days or no bread for 30 days.
The thing that gives me hope that I can do this is that I have succeeded in making exercise a regular part of my life and there was a time that I would have considered that happening almost a complete impossibility. Yet here I am a little exercising fool. So I have proof positive that I can make changes in my life and follow through with them no matter how hard I get down on myself with how I’m not really any good and how I can’t really change anything about my life. The evidence has shown that for many people if they can maintain a new, hopefully positive habit for 30 days the odds increase dramatically that it can become a permanent change.
For this to work one must believe in the ability to make changes in their lives. I now believe that anyone can make great changes in their lives. It takes hard work and strong beliefs but it is definitely possible. I shall now prove this to be true.
Must fight the demons that would stop me in this quest. I wonder if this is how most people feel about their lives?
I will decide no later than this time tomorrow which task I will choose for my next 30 days.
Since I’m a little late to the party let me review what happened with my first 30 days of following through on new habits. My first 30 days the challenge that I set for myself was to write for at least 45 minutes and read for at least 30 minutes each and everyday. In terms of the writing part I could choose whatever I wanted to write. Fiction, non fiction, journal entries poetry, movie scripts what ever wanted to do. I would not concern myself, so much with quality. The goal was about doing it, setting the goal and to damn with editing. This was quantity, nothing but quantity. The point being if I wrote something every day for 30 days, quality on it’s on would tend to get better.
Nope the key factor was to force myself to write every 30 days. If I could do that I would be well on the way of getting closer to one of my major goals, to sell some of my writing.
More to come.....
