Biting Off More Than You Can Chew

I fell off the wagon.

I allowed work to get in my way.

I abandoned my 30 Day Challenges.

I'm sorry :-(

I guess I got carried away and took on far too much too quickly. I'll revisit the 30 Day Challenges in the future but right now, I've got to focus on the challenges that are of greatest importance to me.

To that end, I'm going to focus on a running goal from The List.

In honour of the blog's title, the goal I've chosen to tackle is: "Log a cumulative mileage of > the circumference of Earth". The world will then indeed be mine!
According to Dailymile, I'm only 1/153th of the way there so I better step it up!

State of February's 30-Day Challenge (Week 1)

This challenge did not start well. First, I forgot to charge the battery for my DSLR camera so all of the pictures were taken with my iPhone. Also, I missed 3 days because life got in the way.

Below is a map showing the locations where a photo was taken this week.

View Photography 30-Day Challenge 2012 (Week 1) in a larger map

I will endeavour to do better and catch up next week.

30 Day Challenges

I've drawn a measure of inspiration from this video:

In addition to any other challenge I set myself, I've decided I'll do eleven 30 day challenges, one each month for the remainder of this year.

February
Take one photo every day. [FAILED]

March
Try the paleo diet for a month. (See Steve Kamb's Nerd Fitness article on the subject). [FAILED]

April
Do 15 minutes of yoga every day throughout April (I'll be using Wii Fit Plus for this one). [FAILED]

May
Walk 10,000 steps every day throughout May. (I'll track this with my FitBit). [FAILED]

June
Drink eight 375ml glasses of water every day in June. [FAILED]

July
Get up no later than 06:00 every day in July (except when on night shifts). [FAILED]

August
Practice piano for half an hour every day. (Using Garageband lessons). [ABANDONED]

September
Avoid buying lunch throughout September. [ABANDONED]

October
Avoid coffee throughout October. (This one will certainly be difficult for me). [ABANDONED]

November
Write a 50,000 word novel as part of nanowrimo. The daily target is 1,667 words. All I need now is an idea and an outline but I've got ten months to figure that out! [ABANDONED]

December
TBD [ABANDONED]

I'll post progress reports for each month's challenge. If I find any of the habits beneficial, I'll keep them up. I'm also open to suggestions for future 30 day challenges.


UPDATE: I've abandoned my 30 Day Challenges. See the July 3rd post.