Can you believe it’s December already? The year just flew by!
I’ve been reflecting on the year and had to admit that, to put it kindly, I have not been great with my morning routine. Truthfully, my track record for this year’s morning routing is basically non-existent.
Despite planning to, I have also not managed to keep a visual journal. I haven’t sketched much since I finished the 100-day challenge. I am sure it is directly connected to my morning routing failure.
See DED is my me time where I usually find time to sketch regularly.
My friend Il-haam and I planned to do a 30-day or even a 100-day challenge together in autumn- but life happened.
So we postponed it. Indefinitely.
Autumn is nearly over. The year is nearly over as well.
Yet we both would still like to do a challenge. So we were looking at when to start it and how long we want to commit for now. We both agreed on 30 days and that we rather begin in mid-December than on the 1st of January. We feel like we rather finish the year strong and then connect the new year. I like to start things quite immediately rather than waiting for a specific time. But we both thought it would be wise to give ourselves a week to 10 days to properly define our goals and intentions.
The idea behind daily challenges is to get into a habit of something. This could be anything from a daily walk, studying, reading, writing, arts & crafts, whatever. Anything goes really.
The benefit of doing something consistently for 30 days, 60 or 100 is that we get used to overcoming whatever holds us back from doing it in the first place. And hopefully getting into the habit of it.
I love these challenges because I find it easier to keep going when I count towards a goal. Also, I am an overachiever so crossing off days is a daily achievement.
In my experience doing any challenges with a community is extremely inspiring and has a bigger and longer lasting impact on me. It doesn’t matter what the individual challenges are that each person is doing, the fact that we all support each other when we struggle and simply knowing one isn’t alone in the challenge is a huge help. And then for me most importantly there is the accountability that comes with sharing one’s intentions. For me, it has more gravity. I probably think about it more but most importantly I define my goals and intentions more accurately.
For this 30 Day Challenge, I decided to give the visual journal another go. I am still defining the parameters for my goals and I am pondering what I realistically could get done on a daily basis. As I take probably 3 hours to finish a journal page I won’t be able to do one page a day. Also frankly I don’t think my life is interesting enough to fill a whole page on a daily basis.
I am not sure what Il-haam will do. We have not discussed details yet. We just set a date and said we will check in around the 10 of December to talk about details.
We starting on Monday 16th of December.
Does anyone else want to join?
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