Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Live a Better Life in 30 Days Challenge

Hello everyone! What a surprise to see me here, isn't it? =D I was contemplating to stop blogging altogether because this blog no longer serves its purpose as a life documentary with other alternatives, such as photo albums on Facebook. So, why am I here today? I'm embarking on a 30-day challenge to live my best life and to discover my inner potential (wah cheemology siol)! I'll document my daily tasks on this blog. More details below.

I've been thinking a lot lately, with all the free time up my sleeves. Truth to be told, I haven't been doing much since graduation. A normal week to me would be spending 3 days on work, the rest of the week spent doing practically nothing. On those days, I would go back to Johor, either sleep through the day or scroll down Facebook news feed, hoping miracles will happen. That is not the life I would want for myself. I have almost half a year after the end of my last semester in SP and this is the time I should be fulfilling whatever dreams or goals I have for myself. Instead, I'm rotting away. I have had enough with work, earned enough money to reward myself with a few roadtrips and to give part of it to my parents. =) Now it's about time to do something before I decompose into a puddle of water! D=

The challenge I've taken on is called "Live a Better Life in 30 Days Challenge". It's something I found from The Personal Excellence Blog. I've been reading the blog for a week now. Reading these self-help articles reminds me how unenergized, tired and aimless I am. That's when I found the challenge.

Quoted from Celestine, the blogger and coach:

For the entire month(30 days), I’ll be conducting a 30 days Challenge To Live A Better Life (30D LBL). What’s going to happen is I’ll share a task every day on the blog, a task which will move you towards living a better life. These are not gimmicky tasks – they are important tasks that will improve our lives for the better. Each of them embody the principles I share here at the blog to live your best life. Each task has been specifically created to drive you on the path of self-discovery, conscious living and personal growth. I have personally designed/set each of task and have also done them myself, so I know they have their intended effect.

As with anything that creates real, long-term change in life, each task will take time to think through and digest – from 1-2 hours every day. While this may look like a lot of time, this is a valuable investment of time that will move your life to a better place at the end of the 30 days. What random activities do you spend every day that you can cut out for this? Facebooking? Twitter? Watching TV? Doing things for others? Are they more important than you living a better, more conscious life? Many 30DLBL participants have told me how just doing the tasks from the first few days have already made them feel lighter, clearer, awakened, more focused and more proactive about life. They already feel motivated about what’s ahead of them, vs. previously. It’s amazing just witnessing and hearing about their changes.

This is not a race. This is not a competition, even though it’s framed as a challenge. This is a movement to change your life for the better, to enable you to be better than who you are, to move you to greater heights in life.

This motivates me. Good to have someone guiding me along the way. I've gotten Chai Yen to do this with me and we're committed to this. I'm a little worried as I have to commit myself for the next 30 days, but if it's really life changing, 1-2 hours a day is nothing. =)

I'm currently on Day 1. For Day 0 (which was yesterday), I set a few goals and drafted a 30-day action plan as part of the pre-work. The more goals I set, the further I'm stretching myself and the richer the experience will be at the end of the month.

My goals:
Personal growth

1. To complete character development for Recycle Factory;
2. To spend 5 hours a week on Photoshop (used to be a daily routine but I've lost it due to school commitments. I wanna get back on track.), and;
3. To set up an online portfolio.

Health

1. To exercise 3 days a week and to increase my mileage (haven't been exercising since running a marathon in Dec '10), and;
2. To get started on detox plan (HEHEHE. I've been constipating so often lately I have to do this!).

Family

1. To stay in Johor at least 4 days a week and to spend more quality family time (so please don't blame me if I'm not spending enough time with you as a friend >_< ), and;
2. To bring my niece out to the park every evening when I'm home (something I promised her).

Yep, 8 goals in total! I'm so excited already! I do hope I'll be able to achieve all of these! YEA! Let's get started!

Labels: 30DLBL