After May’s Sugar challenge, we were ready for a non-food challenge. We wondered what it would look like if everyone in our group committed 30 minutes every day for month to learning one thing. Our one thing was coding for our blog. We chose coding because we knew it would be helpful to be able to make simple changes to our blog. I also wanted to make the switch from Blogger to WordPress.
Here are some other things that our challenge friends chose:
- Yoga
- Housekeeping
- Spending time reading the Bible
- Waking up at 5:30AM(I liked this interpretation from our friend Aaron Mead)
Take aways:
- Adding something to our day was much harder than taking something away
- We skipped a couple days and made up for it the next day by doing an hour of coding-that was tough.
- About half way through the month, we just stopped. Why? Lots of lame excuses.
- Being disciplined is a discipline. It means not making excuses. Learning to code was obviously not important enough for me to sacrifice sleep, or free time.
- Having the accountability of our 30 day challenge group really works! I don’t want to let this community down, or give them an excuse to quit. I wouldn’t have been motivated to do it as long as we did without those people.
Things to think about:
- You can’t be good at everything, but you can be great at something.
- Anything worth doing is hard.
- A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.