Update on the 40 Day Challenges and a NEW Contest
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This really ticks me off. I’ve missed one day on each 40 Day Challenge I have going on. Last Friday I failed to post or eat an apple! (sounds funny)
I am at 32 days since starting the blog and was trying to create the discipline and commitment of the blog by posting the first 40 days from its start. I’ll report later as to why I missed it last Friday.
I’ve been enjoying the apples. Fuji and Red Delicious are by far my favorites.
I even thought of not posting today as I have been very busy. There is no doubt that missing just that one day has made me start rationalizing excuses. So something is better than nothing and I will finish right. I had been meaning to update these anyway.
Since hiking Camelback Mountain I have also found myself cutting back with getting out to walk. I figure THAT hike was worth a months of walks. Not really. Less than a week later I went up Shaw Butte and cut over 10 minutes off my previous best time. By the way, I lost over 10 pounds that day hiking Camelback. Talk about dehydration!
A future 40 Day Challenge is going to be to exercise each day for 40. Never done it and it should be a good one.
A New Contest
I challenge you to try something beneficial to you for 40 days! Post your challenge here in the comments. Anything counts. You will have 80 days to start and complete your challenge. Here’s the good part. Everyone that participates and posts the results will be entered into a drawing for some fun prizes. I am thinking those up now.
Are you up to it?


April 1st, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Phil, this is a very thought provoking post!! I had to think about it for a while…I want to try to be a more expressive person so I’m going to look at a different picture everyday for the next 40 days and write about it. I thought about doing drawings/music/poetry, but for all of those I do them without thinking first and make sense of them afterwards and its the thinking part I need to work on! My brain will be more developed after 40 days I hope:)
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Cool, Toni! Keep me informed as to how it is going.