What can really be done in 30 days?

     Thirty days doesn’t seem like much, but a lot can change during them. Zombie outbreaks, aliens, your favorite wrestler going solo, the transition to summer mode and then the inevitable re-transition back to school, all could happen within 30 days. Heck every time I click on Facebook I’m thrown an ad for “change your shape/fate/life in as little as 30 days.”

    

     What is it about the number 30? It is a primoral number. So I guess that makes it important to some. It’s one of the last big stages of young adulthood. It is a nice round number.  Total number of major and minor keys in our tonal music--30. Heck it’s even the number of tracks on the Beatle’s White Album.  Honestly though, I think it’s a Goldilocks thing: not too big—like 50—and not too small—like 10—so people can feel it might accomplish something but if you don’t stick with it, understandable, it was 30 days.

    

     I know a ton of people doing 30-Day challenges. Work outs, diets, movie, you name it, but none of them are really ones I can get into. My “I’m bored with this now” kicks in and I lose interest. Or worse I hurt myself. The discs in my neck and back pop out a bit and WHAM I’m on the couch again.

     But what about my other interests? November’s a long ways off and I need to get myself into a writing routine. Was that more important then getting into shape? (Pearish doesn’t count.) So I decided to combine them both. I issued myself my own 30-Day challenge.

     Writing part, that’s easy. Forcing myself to sit for 30 minutes is easy. I have two assignments I need to complete and there are plenty of contests I can enter. Plus I found a place to get editing practice till mu heart’s content and fingers are bleeding.

     Now the working-out part, that’s tricky.  All my life it’s been about losing weight. And that’s worked out so well. It’s time to change that. It’s not about weight, it’s about strength. That’s what was missing. Exercise tapes a-plenty plus walking should do the trick and keep my hey-look-there's-a-castle-ness at bay.

So bandwagon it is!!!

    

     30 minutes of writing, 30 minutes of exercise, 30 days to get it right. Think the routine should be set by then. Nope, I'm not selling anything, think of it as action research or an experiment. Are 30 little days really a magical cure-all that will transform a person, or is it about setting a goal to achieve something. I side with the latter, but that makes for an even more boring blog, so 30/30/30 it is. Let's see how this goes.

 

     If it doesn't work there's always Photoshop.

 

Once more into the breech...