Deliverable

I’m a big fan of the 30 Day Challenge. It’s been helpful to have this tool to develop consistency around the things that have been holding me back.

One drawback is that some challenges don’t fit so neatly into the 30 day category. The 7 day yoga challenge was one. There’s also my two day “9 to 5 Day” challenge from earlier this month. It doesn’t make sense to do that type of challenge for thirty days, but it’s one that I’d like to eventually make a consistent part of my life.

Enter the 1-7 Day Challenge. It’s a way to crawl before you walk. The beauty of this type of challenge is that it more easily fits into a 5 day work week. Perhaps you’d like to make gettting up at a certain time a priority for the coming week, but want to be free to get up whenever you like on the weekend…

Create a 5 Day challenge for yourself:

• Evaluate your schedule and create a specific set of wake up times for the week.
• Put those wake up times in a “5 Day Challenge” format and post it online.
• Check-in on Friday morning.

This eliminates the feeling that you have to do this habit for the rest of your life. It’s something that you’re trying out. It’s something that wouldn’t even work to do for 30 days straight. It might be something that you’d like to do every once in a while. It’s a way to set goals for yourself that are believable, and thus achievable. It’s a way to gain strength slowly but steadily.

That’s the concept. We’ll see how it works out.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 6:13 pm and is filed under 1-7 Days, Concepts.