Last week Matt Cutts published a blog post asking his readers for suggestions on a new 30 day challenge, after successfully completing his goal of walking 10,000 steps a day for 30 days.
This got me thinking. I think a 30 day challenge is a great idea, and could potentially be really rewarding once completed. It also helps with discipline. And let’s be honest, 30 days isn’t that long is it? Just the right amount of time to make a difference, but not to long that we’ll quit.
So, I want to know if you have ever taken a 30 day challenge and if not, why? Tomorrow is the 1st of July, a great time to start a new challenge 
My 30 day challenge for July is to lead a healthier lifestyle and to hopefully lose a few kg. My goals are:
- No bread
- No beer
- 1 hour of exercise per day
I enjoy exercise, but sometimes work gets the better of me and I can easily let it slip. This will be the easiest. Beer, wow I love a nice ice cold beer while the sun goes down, but there are other alternatives so this should be do-able. Bread… when the day comes that a waitress puts a bowl of bread on my table while I’m waiting for my dinner to arrive will be torture… but I’m going to give it my all. I will write a follow up in 30 days!
What 30 day challenge are you going to start?
I think the 30 day time period has one more big benefit: it’s short enough to make the challenge appealing but long enough for it to become routine and easy to keep up once the month is over.
I don’t have a thirty day challenge right now, but at some point in my life I want to complete a bicentennial race. The rules are: drink 100 beers and run 100 miles in a week.
The bicentennial race sounds exhausting, but fun!
This 30 day challenge is just the idea that I need!
I have to try and finish a paper, about social media and recruitment for companys, at the end of July. Because in august I have a holiday break for 3 weeks and in the 4th week of august I have to graduate.
I think this ‘challenge’ is a good motivator in times of summer outside and black coffee and computer inside. Thanks for the idea btw. ;D