尝试新事物30天--Try something new for 30days
2015年已经过去了1/6，但是却毫无收获，新年的目标看起来实现也是遥遥无期，或许期望太高，或许目标不现实。或许执行力不够。
还没开始任性，都已经要30了，有人说，一天天过去了，回想起来却毫无印象，不知道自己怎么过去的。
听到后，我也有同感，深感害怕。
想到Matt Cutts 的“Try something new for 30days",开始变得有吸引力，似乎能够阻挡将要老去的时光一般。
下面是Matt 的30天计划完成的一些事情，而我也将会开始实行自己的30天计划。
3月：every day a new word for 30days
word:
meaning:
e.g.
3月：meditation for 15mins each morning
Remark: this will not be too difficult for me, because I have done this every several days now. but I want it to be my habit.
| Date | Event | Feelings |
| 2009年5月 | walk 10,000 steps a day | In the process, I discovered that walking to the grocery store can be a relaxing way to unwind and get some exercise |
| 2009年6月 | not watch any television | I learned that I don’t miss summer TV that much |
| 2009年7月 | biked into work | |
| 2009年8月 | Read 15 books in 30 days | |
| 2009年9月 | ||
| 2009年10月 | not going to use any Microsoft software | |
| 2009年11月 | without Robert Scoble (November) | |
| 2009年12月 | I went off caffeine | |
| 2010年1月 | no Twitter or FriendFeed | |
| 2010年2月 | no iPhone | |
| 2010年3月 | no sugar | |
| 2010年4月 | without replying to external email (April) | |
| 2010年5月 | no Facebook | |
| 2010年6月 | I didn’t respond to email after 10 p.m. and I read the New Testament of the Bible | Both were interesting in different ways. It turns out that 10 p.m. is a pretty good time for me to turn off email (I’ve tried 9 p.m. in the past and that didn’t work–Google can be a very email-heavy place at times). I’d like to get back to this habit, because it made me distinctly more mellow at night. I noticed that I slipped pretty quickly back into the “email anytime I’m awake” habit. |
| 2010年7月 | only cloud-based software | |
| 2010年8月 | I took a picture a day | |
| 2010年9月 | meditate or quietly reflect for 15 minutes a day | Meditating was harder than I thought, in a few ways. First, it was difficult (impossible?) to turn my brain off. I’m accustomed to using my brain all the time, every day. I don’t like to turn my brain off. I definitely struggled with that all month. Someone recommended counting, for example counting leaves on a tree, as a way to help. That worked very well, but it also felt like counting was keeping my mind busy rather than clearing it out. |
| 2010年10月 | get my finances in order | |
| 2010年11月 | write a novel The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days | |
| 2010年12月 | learn a word a day | |
| 2011年1月 | In 2011, I paused my 30 day challenges to do a “six month challenge”: training to run a marathon. I ended up running the San Francisco marathon (while tweeting!) and a couple half-marathons | |
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| 2011年4月 | 30 days of Being Thankful | |
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| 2011年6月 | Goal: Go skydiving;Run a marathon;Get my email under control | |
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| 2011年10月 | eat vegan for the next 30 days | |
| 2011年11月 | growing a mustache to raise awareness and money for men’s health issues | |
| 2011年12月 | do an act of kindness or a good deed a day | https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/TeCdM4kKiKf |
| 2012年1月 | draw something every day | My *goal* was that I would pay more attention to creativity and my right brain in 2012: drawing, learning guitar, singing lessons, etc. In *practice*, this was a disastrous failure. I lasted for about 6-7 days, then slipped while on vacation, and never got back into the habit. I want to be the sort of person who draws, but even with a 30 day challenge pushing me, I didn’t actually do it. I need to do some deep thinking about why I didn’t participate in this activity, which I thought I was enthusiastic about. |
| 2012年2月 | exercise every day | |
| 2012年3月 | avoid reading, watching, or hearing the news | |
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| 2012年6月 | eat mindfully (eat more slowly, don’t eat while distracted by TV or web browsing, chew more, stop eating when I’m full, etc.) | |
| 2012年7月 | Don’t send any emails after 9 p.m | Email is the part of my life that is most out of control, so it’s worth trying a few approaches to tackle it |
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| 2012年9月 | everyday I did something nice for my wife | |
| 2012年10月 | play the ukulele each day | |
| 2012年11月 | get good sleep this month | So I’m setting a goal of eight hours of sleep a night for the next 30 days |
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| 2013年1月 | no news, no Twitter, fewer emails, and no social media in general | I averaged about a book a day for a week; I quickly learned that if something important was happening, I’d hear about it from someone else. |
| 2013年2月 | my wife and I are trying a gluten-free, wheat-free month | |
| 2013年3月 | Chromebook Pixel | |
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| 2013年6月 | record a second of video every day | http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_kuriyama_one_second_every_day |
| 2013年7月 | not to read any news or social media So no Twitter, Google News, Techmeme, Google+, Hacker News, Reddit, Imgur, etc | Why am I doing this? I find it to be a useful challenge. I’m crunching on a bunch of stuff and really wanted to get my head down and focus on some projects Longer-term, I’m trying to find a healthier approach to news and social media. On the spectrum of books to magazines to newspapers to social media with its second-by-second focus, I’d like to shift my media consumption more toward books and research |
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| 2013年9月 | better email handling | |
| 2013年10月 | eat better and exercise more | I tried to eat better and exercise more. I did alright on that, but without a specific daily goal, I had a hard time deciding how well I did. I mostly got back into the habit of exercising daily, so that was helpful. |
| 2013年11月 | no work November | I had enough vacation days built up that I was hitting the upper limit for work, so I took a bunch of vacation in November. My in-laws visited one week, then it was a family member’s birthday, so we took some time off at a resort in Arizona. Then it was back home for a week before spending the week before Thanksgiving in Kentucky with my family. |
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| 2014年1月 | limit my social media | That was a productive month |
| 2014年2月 | eat more slowly | |
| 2014年3月 | not to reply to external emails | |
| 2014年4月 | make quirky eyebrow expressions | |
| 2014年5月 | get eight hours of sleep a night | I only hit that goal about half the nights. But I became much more aware of when I was trading off sleep for a meaningful activity, like getting up at 4 a.m. to drive to Vallejo for a triathlon. Or more often, I realized that I was trading off sleep to answer emails or surf the web. As a bonus 30 day challenge, I biked into work almost every day in May. |
| 2014年6月 | at least an hour a day with a treadmill desk | |
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| 2014年10月 | write a compliment a day for my wife | |
| 2014年11月 | writing | I did miss one day, but here’s a secret about 30 day challenges: if you miss a day or two, you can just keep doing the challenge for another day or so at the end. Or don’t worry about it: you’re trying out something new, and you only have to answer to yourself. |
| 2014年12月 | I’ve been spending more time surfing the web on my laptop than I’d like to. I’ve also noticed more emails that lure me into short tasks, but eventually eat up a large chunk of my day.I’d prefer to be spending more time working on projects, reading, and unplugging |