I got the idea from Matt Cutt’s to start a 30 days challenge. It is a strategy to consciously change parts of your life to build good habits and/or getting rid of bad ones. A few challenges Matt has already done are:
- Walk 10,000 steps a day.
- No television.
- Bike to work.
- Read 15 books in 30 days.
- No Microsoft software.
- No twitter.
- Leaving the iPhone
No Facebook for 30 days
I have a bad habit in wasting a lot of time in social media. I like to think I am staying in touch with my 400 Facebook friends but in reality it is an excuse not to call people or hang out with them. Reading someones Facebook updates is not keeping in touch. For the month of May I will deactivate my Facebook page. This is my challenge to get rid of a bad habit. Deactivating a Facebook account does not delete it. You can reactivate it anytime just by logging in and all of your data will still be there. What I want to find out is, will anyone notice i’m off Facebook? I doubt it.
If you think you have Facebook addiction, take a look at this short video.
Eating Paleo for 30 days
Periodically I will refer to the word Paleo (short for Paleolithic) and it is important to understand what that means. By definition this is the era of time that started approximately 2.5 million years ago and ended 10,000 years ago. In terms of human innovation and widespread technology, this was the period of time between the first uses of stone tools by early hominids to the start of when Homo sapiens developed agriculture and diverged away from Hunting and Gathering for their food and moved towards a heavy use of grains for sustenance.
Now, how is this pertinent to the 30 day challenge? Since it takes more than 10,000 years for organisms (Yes, Humans are organisms) to evolve one can deduce that our gene pool evolved in an environment that was scarce in grains an abundant in meats, vegetables, nut, seeds, and fruit. It should then come to no surprise that the logical food choices for health and wellbeing is food that only existed prior to 10,000 years ago. This is the fundamental reasoning behind why many believe Paleo food choices are the best.
So, for the next 30 days I will only be eating food that existed 10,000 years ago. This included meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. I have been quasi-paleo for about a year now staying at about 90% strict so it is time to go that last 10%. I’ll be taking a before and after picture and posting it in 30 days.
Upcoming challenges
Here area few ideas that I am thinking about for next month.
- Get all my stuff down to100 items or less.
- Get up at 5:00 A.M. every single morning.
- No Email
If you have any other suggestions please leave it in the comments.
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Hi Chris,
Just found your blog. I am local in Fremont. Been doing CrossFit for about 11 months mostly on my own in my home. Stopped in at CrossFit of Fremont once and twice on Sunday at One World. Going for the Level 1 cert. this weekend in San Diego. Have heard good things about you and have enjoyed reading some of your postings here.
At any rate, in line with the reading part, when I was training in Aikido when I lived in Japan, the Shihan (master) used to tell me he would wake up before the sunrise (around 5 a.m. everyday), exercise, and then spend an hour studying. The studying part was very important. It didn’t matter what he studied (he seemed to span many different subjects–languages, philosophy, economics, whatever), just as long as he spent time in books (or I supposed you could do it online) and taking notes.
Just a suggestion…
Cheers,
Jor
I think Facebook is the devil!
Manny was choked out many times when he had a facebook account…..