July Challenge!

[aabukar]

Originally Posted by aabukar

i didnt do well in May or in June ... i dont want to even check my June challenge posts but here i am in July trying to figure out what can i do to make a committment to my goals and stick with it

so i will start small ... I will make this month July, the month of personal development by that i mean my goals are:-

1. Re-discover who i am

2. Accept who i am

3. Enjoy who i am, do things that i enjoy to do, Me comes first

4. Nurture my relationship with the people around me (family and friends), spread joy and just be happy

Hope this will work ... i need to feel that i have accomplished my goals for a month challenge

So these are my results for July ... I know there is still a week left but I dont think that it would make a difference to the current results

1. Re-discover who i am (Still working on it ... but I can see that i made a progress in this ... thanks to my frank friends who tell me what I dont see)
I have discovered things about me I was never aware of ...

2. Accept who i am ( I can say that i have reached 80% in this one ) I have decided to not make a nose-job operation i was planning to do .. I think i am pretty ... inside and outside and I dont need such operations

3. Enjoy who I am ... (pretty much i do )

4. Nurture my relationships (I am doing much better in this one ... thanks again to my great friends)

I know i am still in the begining of my journey ... but i am happy with what i have done so far

to coach myself on this journey i was thinking and i really need to hear your ideas guys about it ... do you think it would be useful or not

1. before understanding the opposite sex i need to understand myself and therefore i was thinking of reading and applying the seven habits ... that means i need to read it very carefully and work on it step by step

2. reading and working on "the men are from Mars nad the women are from venus" ... I just dont want to get lost with many resources so i was thinking that these two can be enough ... get me to know the basics and then after i am aware i can watch my behaviour on a daily basis and work on it.

so what do you think ? is this a good idea ?
thanks for reaching this line.

[jwz]

Here we are.
At the end of the month.
I made 9 goals for July, but had a low success rate of 25% (counting partial successes as a ½ success).

In June, i got 50%+ of my goals nailed (1st goal setting month ever).
With 2 months of experience now, I've set my goals for August already.

After spending 2 months finding out how goalsetting works best for me, I intend to "score" 90%+ in August.

I look forward to reading about how YOU managed your July goals

-Jan

[Raoh]

1/ continue to slowly rise earlier with the objective to rise at about 6:30am by the end of july
cancelled/reported to august : hollidays

2/ do some daily maths to finish at an average of 2/3 hours daily by the last week
partial : on average : 1.5 hours/day

3/ mastering either ruby or python (at least i reduced my choice, rebol is out for now)
partial : saw some ruby

4/ continue to exercise at least 3 times/week and 4 when possible.
ok

[Julia.Ru]

My results.

1. Wake up at 8.30 every morning.
I think it's done. I gave up on the 5th day because, no matter what, I had gone to bed at 3 at night and after 5 days I felt exhausted. Then I decided to start again on July 11th just to complete 21 day of the challenge and I did it. The result - now 8.30 in the morning doesn't scare me and waking up early has made me more optimistic.

2. Talking back to anyone every day.
Done. During this I talked back to the family members, a couple of co-workers and 4 times I swore at one forum board. But I had managed to behave like that when I was in high school. The thing that I couldn't do at that time is talking back to strangers and now, years later, I'm glad I could pluck up the courage and do it - once I talked back to a sales-girl and 2 times to bus conducters (the first time I did it I noticed all people turining their heads and looking at me )The main result is that I don't feel vulnerable now as I used to before! It's a relief.

[Kaspian]

Originally Posted by Kaspian

Like last month, I'll have the added challenge of being out of town for ~10 days.

1 - Spend 4-6 hours per week working in the yard. (I'll make up for days out of town on the weeks that I'm home.)
2 - Write daily: Do the Morning Pages.
3 - Get up between 4am and 5am when I'm not out of town.
4 - Play horn daily.
5 - Meditate daily.
6 - Daily exercise - hiking, yard work, kayaking, walking, running, rock climbing, horse riding, etc.

Results:

1 - Success. I got a lot done before I left, and had a few days in week 2 to work when I got back.

2 - All but one morning when home, but I wrote fewer than half the mornings on vacation.

3 - Consistent 5/6 of the time I was home.

4 - All but two days when home, but I played fewer than half the days on vacation. The lesson here is: Leave the horn home when I travel. For the amount that I play while traveling, it's not worth lugging the extra bag & weight. In the August Challenge, I wrote that I planned to take my horn to Europe this month. I changed my mind. I'll buzz on the mouthpiece to stay in shape and mentally practice/learn the music.

5 - Roughly 2/3 when home, but under half while out of town.

6 - Very good—27 of 31—certainly better than if I hadn't made the goal.