The 30 day book writing challenge tv#

I had, in hindsight, set myself up for nothing but failure.

Flying off to visit new places and friends for 3 weeks of the 30 days.

Working through unexpected technical glitches because it wasn’t the easy ‘pen and paper’ option that I could have gone for.

Fact-checking the blotchy names of places and companies that I had wanted to mention in the articles.

The additional (and unnecessary) pressure of trawling through hard-drives of disorganised travel photos… and then editing them.

When a goal is endless, you’ve already failed. No quantifiable boundaries in terms of time – or words.This also meant – to the storyteller in me – that sometimes these articles would consist of thousands of words, drawing on experiences and articulating my travel musings. This meant – to the perfectionist in me – that I would create 30 articles with selected photographs from various destinations that I have travelled to. Seemingly, what I had meant when I vocalised this challenge was that I wanted to write 30 articles for my website. The problem arose from the fact that I had never intended to just “write something“. I decided to set myself the challenge of writing ‘something’ every day for 30 days. So, where did I go wrong? Well, I failed to do all three of the above. Scheduling specific time slots into your day will help you to build consistency and routine be accountable for ensuring you make your challenge a priority. It’s always good to feel a sense of achievement at the start of a day because you take the positivity and energy forward with you. If you like to get things out of the way, allocate a morning slot to your challenge before your mind gets side-tracked with everything else you ‘need’ to do that day. We can all start a day feeling motivated and ready to achieve goals, but life – and the mind – has this ability to throw us off track.

The 30 day book writing challenge tv#

Be realistic with yourself: how much time are you willing to set aside in order to prioritise your goal? Why not take 30 minutes of the time you spend on social media or in front of the TV and substitute it with 30 minutes of dedication to your challenge? Whether it is 30 minutes or one hour, stick to it. If you want to complete a 30-day challenge then you need to make time for it. Time can often be hard to find, especially in the chaos of our everyday lives when it constantly seems to be in short supply. For example, if you’re setting yourself a fitness challenge, the goal is not “to finally get fit” the goal might be to “go to the park across the road and exercise for 30 minutes every day for 30 days” – increased fitness is the welcomed by-product of the action.

Don’t make it harder than it needs to be.

Here are 3 things you can do to ensure that you successfully complete your 30-day challenge:

My 30-day writing challenge took me 56 days to complete. Copying and pasting a link, rather than trawling back through memories and messages to regurgitate the same info is so much quicker… and a lot easier to digest than my rambling, overly enthusiastic messages (if you’ve been on the receiving end of one of these messages, you know exactly what I mean). To be very honest, I also wanted a quick way to respond to people who were asking for tips for upcoming trips.I knew that sharing it in a public space would help me to evolve and grow because there’s so many things you learn when you challenge yourself. I wanted a space to talk about all things travel and express a bit of creativity through photography and words.I let life get in the way and, like many of us, just never got around to doing anything about it.

I had been telling myself that I would write about my travels – for years I had even built this little website for that purpose.

We all have our own reasons for setting ourselves a 30-day challenge here were mine: Sometimes, you just need to give yourself a kick up the a** to set things in motion or get back on track. Why I set myself a 30-Day Writing Challenge It’s a short-term experiment that is absolutely doable… unless you’re me, and you fail to think it through properly. It’s a plan for overcoming fears and developing inner confidence. It’s an opportunity to stay motivated through self-discipline. What is a 30-Day Challenge?Ī 30-day challenge is a strategy for developing a new habit. I don’t consider it a complete fail because I got to the finish line – eventually – despite the three key mistakes that I made along the way. On the 26th August 2019, I set myself a 30-day travel writing challenge.