Deliverable

Version 0.7

I broke out the more advanced content into a second book.

I will complete at least 180 minutes of work on the book before 11 p.m. today. complete

I will complete at least 60 minutes of practice on the trombone before 5 p.m. today. complete

Plan out tomorrow with a “1 Day Multi-Challenge” post before midnight. complete

Notes to Self:

• This means if I do all my work on the book in the evening, I’ll have to start before 8 p.m.
• This means if I do all my trombone practicing in the afternoon, I’ll have to start before 4 p.m.

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1 Day Multi-Challenge
Start & End date: Today

I will complete at least 180 minutes of work on the book before noon today. complete

I will complete at least 60 minutes of practice on the trombone before 5 p.m. complete

I will complete at least another 100 minutes of work on the book before 5 p.m. complete (The last stretch was actually completed at 5:53 p.m. For some reason I thought 4:20 p.m. was 100 minutes before 5:00 p.m. Clearly my math skills need some looking into.)

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1 Day Challenge: Multi-Challenge #4
Start & End date: Today

I will complete at least 150 minutes of work on the book before noon today. complete

I will complete at least 60 minutes of practice on the trombone before 5 p.m. complete

I will complete at least another 50 minutes of work on the book before 5 p.m. complete

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1 Day Challenge: Multi-Challenge #3
Start & End date: Today

I will complete at least 100 minutes of work on the book before noon today. complete

I will complete at least 60 minutes of practice on the trombone before 5 p.m. complete

I will complete at least another 50 minutes of work on the book before 5 p.m. complete

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1 Day Challenge: Multi-Challenge #2
Start & End date: Today

Something new… More than one challenge rolled into one day:

I will complete at least 100 minutes of work on the book before noon today. complete

I will complete at least 60 minutes of practice on the trombone before 5 p.m. complete

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1 Day Challenge: Multi-Challenge #1
Start date: Monday, 8/7/06
Check-in date: Monday, 8/7/06

It took some doing, but here’s version 0.6:

There’s a bit over a month until version 1.0 is due. Look for some new challenges next week to kick this thing into high gear.

Yesterday worked well, so I’ll try it again…

I will complete at least 100 minutes of work on the book before noon today.

–update:–
complete

Thoughts
This has been very effective. It makes it much easier to get up in the morning, because I have a specific thing to do, and a specific time frame to do it in. The format seems flexible enough to use with a changing schedule. I think I’ll expand this next week to see how far I can take it.

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1 Day Challenge: 100 on the Book Before Noon
Start date: Friday, 8/4/06
Check-in date: Friday, 8/4/06

I wanted to challenge myself, so…

I will complete at least 100 minutes of work on the book before noon today.

–update:–
Complete

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1 Day Challenge: 100 on the Book Before Noon
Start date: Thursday, 8/3/06
Check-in date: Thursday, 8/3/06

For the next 3 days, I will complete at least 50 minutes of work on the book before noon.

Check-in
Wednesday, 8/2/06: Complete
Thursday, 8/3/06: Complete
Friday, 8/4/06: Complete

I expanded this challenge for days two and three.

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3 Day Challenge: Book before Noon
Start date: Wednesday, 8/2/06
Check-in date: Friday, 8/4/06