‘7 days of pure self-discipline’ is kind of a challenge which Glen posted in his blog. I’m a regular reader of his blog and I thought I should take up the challenge.
What is the challenge?
Simple. You have to list your daily activities that you want to stop doing and those things that you want to do for 7 days in a row. This might sound a bit vague to you. I’ll explain everything in this post and I’ll tell you what I’m going to for this 7 day challenge.
Before you read everything, let me make it clear that you don’t have to pay for anything. This is just a simple and fun challenge.
First you have to sit down and write down your daily activities that are affecting your productivity. This can be something like “Don’t watch TV”. After you come up with those, write down a list of things that you want to do everyday. You can write things like workout for one hour a day.
Don’t set yourself with a big list. Limit the list to 5. As Leo Babauta says in his blog posts, “Start with one at a time”. You can start with 3-5 small things for this challenge. Not more than that.
My List (Starting on 03 June)
1. One blog post everyday in this blog for seven days
2. No twitter
3. Sleep for not more than 6 hours (11PM-5AM)
Why do I want to do these?
1. One blog a day for seven days
I have always felt that I don’t write a lot in this blog. I want to write good posts here and help bloggers learn more about blogging by sharing my experiences. I won’t be stopping it with seven days. I have planned to make it my habit. Let’s see how this one goes.
2. No twitter
I thought this should be the toughest of the three tasks I have set for myself. But seeing that I haven’t tweeted for the past 2 days, I’m sure I can do this. By not tweeting for a week, I will learn how to limit the time I spend on twitter. I normally spend 2-3 hours a day in twitter. But this challenge will help me limit the twitter usage after seven days.
I won’t stop tweeting completely after 7 days. I will tweet for 15-20 minutes a day after the challenge is over.
3. Sleep for not more than 6 hours
I normally get up at 6.00AM just in time to get ready for college. From today, I will sleep at 11PM itself and get up at 5AM so that I will have one hour extra in the morning for creating a ‘to do’ list for everyday.
Why 6 hours?
I always feel that one should sleep for 6 hours everyday to get full energy for the next day. Though many have proved to me that quality of sleep is much more important and even 5 hours of sleep would be enough. But I’m going to stick to 6 hours. I’ll sleep at 11PM and get up at 5AM. I will be doing this even after the challenge is over.
So those are my challenges. If you want to get involved in the challenge, get away from your computer right now and write down what you want to do for the challenge in a notebook. If you wish you can share it with me by writing a comment or writing it in a blog post or let me know by email.
Thanks to Glen for this idea. I recommend you to read his blog. You would also love his story.
