Deliverable

I recently came across a series of blog posts that deal with building habits. Given the things I’ve been focusing on lately, it’s like the universe stuck them out there just for me. In the post on conditioning, he talks about the 30 Day Trial as a tool to build a habit. That got me thinking about my own past experiences with something similar, my 3 Week Challenges for Cooking, Fiber, and Television. These had been back in August, and I’d almost forgotten that I’d done them. I started to ask myself some questions:

• “What were my experiences been back then?”
• “Had I stuck with these habits, and if not then why not?”
• “How might I use this concept in my life today?”

It turns out that I was successful in all three of my challenges, and that I received alot of benefits from the process.

Of the three challenges the one that I’ve managed to integrate the most into my life has been the fiber part. I eat breakfast pretty much every day now, and recognize that I don’t feel as good if I start my day without it.

On the TV and cooking front I completely let those habits slip through. I think perhaps I wasn’t ready to give up television completely back then and I never did find an effective strategy to cook consistenly. (Though I’m still working on it!)

I plan to revisit the concept of the “30 Day Challenge” in posts over the next few days as I research it more and figure out the ways in which I’d like to challenge myself.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 at 1:44 pm and is filed under 30 Days, Concepts.