February’s 29 Day Challenge was a huge success. For March I’m expanding on some previous goals and adding others:
- Get up by 7:30 5 days a week and 9 on weekends - I was already doing this by the end of my previous challenge.
- Do at least 1 significant task to create passive income 6x a week and blog about it - This is one area where I want to make huge strides this month. The sooner I can generate income passively (i.e. earning money by owning capital instead of punching a clock) the sooner I’ll be wealthy in the “take this job and shove it” sense. Adding blogging to this goal makes me more accountable for it.
- Exercise daily - Again, any exercise counts, but I also have to do a full strength training workout 2X a week.
- Strength train 2x a week - I anticipate that I’ll hate this for about a week then I’ll love it again. Getting over the soreness hump always sucks.
- Do a Memory Exercise 6 days a week - I’ll be reading and doing exercises from The Memory Book (the bible of human memory upgrades) so I can remember peoples’ names for more than 2 seconds.
- Eat less than 2500 calories 6 days a week - Most weight loss gurus say you should have one day a week “off” of your diet. The thinking goes that your body adjusts to your new lower calorie intake and slows its metabolism to compensate. Taking a day a week to tell your body “don’t worry, no famine here” prevents this. I think going 7 days a week for a month is a good way to kick things off, but I did notice last month that days where I ate at or even above the alloted calories my weight loss accelerated.
- Meditate Daily for 15 minutes
- Daily drawing or artwork
- Blog daily
- No beef
March has 31 days, but taking the 1st off was a nice break before starting on another month long dash.
Another change this month is that I plan to blog my progress weekly instead of daily-ish. I’d rather blog about individual experiences of meditation or starting a business and let Making the Chain track the daily progress.
As before I’ve set up a page in the sidebar so you can follow along.
Last month was a great experience and I encourage everyone to try a 30 day challenge. It could be as simple as sitting for a daily 5 minute meditation or writing a page a day of that novel you’ve been putting off.
Whatever you plan to do, make it public, and make it yours. Good luck!
