Edit: Putting this one off for a month. I'll most likely give it a try for October.
I decided to give myself five goals for the month of September--one easy one, two medium-difficulty ones, and two hard ones. Here they are.
#1 (Easy): Download 100 new albums. This should really be ridiculously easy. I am hoping to start adding more jazz to my world.
#2 (Medium Difficulty): Read 4 books--Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass; The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides; and Feast of Crows, by George R. R. Martin (Book 4 in the Game of Thrones series). This should probably qualify as a hard challenge, since three of these books are quite long, with Feast of Crows leading the bunch at nearly 1,000 pages.
#3 (Medium): Walk for 20 hours. I just got an ipod and filled it with 5,900 songs, so this one should be pretty fun.
#4 (Hard): Drink no more than 10 Cokes, 5 Starbucks coffees, and 48 beers. Give or take a few, each month I average 30 Cokes, 20 Starbucks coffees, and about 100 beers. More than halving each of these will be pretty tough.
#5 (Hard): Write fiction of any kind for 20 hours. I have some story ideas rolling around in my brain, but I don't want to limit myself. My only goal is to sit at my laptop and click away. If I sit down hoping to write some realistic fiction or a short story about pixies or else a fantasy like Game of Thrones but instead pump out three chapters of a romantic novel set in a senior citizen's home, it still counts.
I have two goals with these challenges--to be healthier and to inspire myself creatively. I am not sure whether I will achieve all five goals. It would be nice, but even if I only go 3 for 5, that will probably qualify as a "successful failure."
But I don't want to think like that yet. I think I have a decent shot at all five. Slightly less than even money. No, that's not true. My best guess would be that I have a 37.67% chance of total unflinching success. A wise man, in short, would probably bet against me.
I will update my progress on this blog a few times a week.
I decided to give myself five goals for the month of September--one easy one, two medium-difficulty ones, and two hard ones. Here they are.
#1 (Easy): Download 100 new albums. This should really be ridiculously easy. I am hoping to start adding more jazz to my world.
#2 (Medium Difficulty): Read 4 books--Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass; The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides; and Feast of Crows, by George R. R. Martin (Book 4 in the Game of Thrones series). This should probably qualify as a hard challenge, since three of these books are quite long, with Feast of Crows leading the bunch at nearly 1,000 pages.
#3 (Medium): Walk for 20 hours. I just got an ipod and filled it with 5,900 songs, so this one should be pretty fun.
#4 (Hard): Drink no more than 10 Cokes, 5 Starbucks coffees, and 48 beers. Give or take a few, each month I average 30 Cokes, 20 Starbucks coffees, and about 100 beers. More than halving each of these will be pretty tough.
#5 (Hard): Write fiction of any kind for 20 hours. I have some story ideas rolling around in my brain, but I don't want to limit myself. My only goal is to sit at my laptop and click away. If I sit down hoping to write some realistic fiction or a short story about pixies or else a fantasy like Game of Thrones but instead pump out three chapters of a romantic novel set in a senior citizen's home, it still counts.
I have two goals with these challenges--to be healthier and to inspire myself creatively. I am not sure whether I will achieve all five goals. It would be nice, but even if I only go 3 for 5, that will probably qualify as a "successful failure."
But I don't want to think like that yet. I think I have a decent shot at all five. Slightly less than even money. No, that's not true. My best guess would be that I have a 37.67% chance of total unflinching success. A wise man, in short, would probably bet against me.
I will update my progress on this blog a few times a week.
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