October Challenge Update

It's been good so far. I know it's been just 3 days. But I have kept my pledge of daily dose of exercises! What I have noticed is that I usually keep it for about a week effortlessly. Maximum of two and then my motivation wanders off. But with regular updates on my progress, I am testing to see whether the accountability factor has any impact on my motivation levels. Hopefully if I receive some encouraging feedback, it will work well for me.

Since it is a bit of a hassle to update daily on the blog, I have chosen Twitter as my main medium of recording updates. The fact that I can update from the mobile is a big convenience factor for me and the chances of missing updates with such a convenience are lesser. In order to publish my Tweets, I have added a Twitter widget to this blog's side bar. So this blog will also be updated with my Twitter updates.

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October Challenge

I should admit, my August challenge did not materialize even by end September. No, this is not a post to blame it on anything or anyone else. It was just my undisciplined self that needs to be blamed. And the outcome was a pretty bad feeling of FAILURE!

But still I am setting myself another challenge for myself. But this time I am going to go a bit more lean! I will target a more achievable goal. A goal that I am more likely to achieve without requiring a drastic change to my routine and something I am more likely to achieve with my lazy self!

I will lose 2 kilos by the end of this month. I will achieve this my
committing just 5 minutes of exercise on most days.

Trying to give up my food indulgence was a total flop. It brought me to the point where I started to question that I am a plain sucker for good food! So I will not fight my indulgences hard, but I will try to control my portions.

But the end result I expect, no matter how I achieve it is to be 88 kilos by the end of this month!

I would appreciate if you guys can make me accountable for this goal!

My Zen Habits August Challenge

Zen habits is a recent blog that I subscribed to recently. It is a wonderful blog about personal development and it is written with a perspective of of Zen Buddhism. It is all about simplifying your life!

Zen Habits runs a challenge for each month for his readers through the forum on his site. The users can register a challenge that they want to achieve within the month, and they are to practice and report progress online, through the forum daily. It is kind of like your personal accountability team.

This process of practicing a new habit for 30 days to internalize it has been proposed by many a personal development trainers. I first heard about it on Steve Pavlina's blog, and then I read about it on several books and other web sites and blogs. I have tried this approach several times, but at all times, it didn't go through for more than 2 weeks. I think the biggest reason was he lack of a personal accountability team. I never made myself personally accountable for my goals.

This time I decided to add that element to it. So I registered for the August Challenge on Zen Habits forum. I recorded my challenge for this month. But will I be motivated and to be accountable to the other people on the forum? Well, I could be, I could not be! But there is no loss of face if I don't!

So the way I figured it, in order for me to be really accountable for achieving my goal, I should put it here, on this blog. And everyday, I can make a progress update by way of a comment and intermittently, I can write a post reviewing the process. And come the end of the month, I will have to update on the result achieved.

Lose 5 Kilos by the end of the month.

I will attempt this by:

1. Eating moderately and not giving into indulgences
2. Exercising daily on the TimeWorks. The prescription is to do only 4 minutes a day!

Stay tuned for my updates!

Intentions and goal setting

After reviewing a lot of literature about setting intentions and goals, I wrote down a few goals that I wanted to achieve in the short term and a few far reaching goals. In one of the books that I had read called The Success Principles author Jack Canfield stated that each of us should set a life changing goal.

I was searching for this life changing goal and I finally settled down to wanting to create a killer Web Site that would have over a 100,000 unique visitors a day. The reason I chose this as my life changing goal was the thinking that such a web site has the ability to generate a large passive income which can pave the way for the financial independence that I seek in my life. If a web site attracts over a 100,000 unique visitors a day, that web site should have the ability to generate a few hundred, if not a few thousand dollars in passive income.

To cut a long story short, I was thinking about a web site idea, as I had set myself the goal of launching this web site before the end of this year. It is then that a friend of mine came to me with an idea for a web site and asked me if I would like to join in with him and a another friend to start off on it!

I said yes without a blink. I agreed to meet up with them to discuss the idea further, as I had a gut feeling that it is a workable idea. The reason behind me writing this story is to go on record that the universe does respond to your intentions. When I wrote down the goal of creating a killer web site, I had no idea of what it was going to be on. But out of the blues, my friend came to me with an idea that they had been toying around with. The way I see it, the universe saw three people who were having the same intention and brought them together.

I am not sure if the others who are in this with me will believe this, but as far as I am concerned, the universe has answered my call. Well I know that I have a long way to go towards achieving the targets I had set on my goal for the web site, but the universe has answered my call and had paved the first step towards manifesting my intention. I am waiting to see how this will work out and I will record the progress here, what ever way it goes!