November 2nd - A review

I can tell you now - I'm flagging already. Making something every day is hard going and a year seems like a ridiculously long time. I have already been tempted to change the challenge into something along the lines of '365 Days of Purpose' and I would have the option of changing the challenge each month so for example I might write something each day of November and in December I might take 10 minutes every day to be still and silent. This would - I think - be a cop out and the slippery slope to giving up. One thing I have learnt about myself over the last few years is that I can give up too easily and I don't want to give up on this.

Interestingly I received an e-mail this week, just a group one but from Gretchen Rubin and her Happiness Project but there was a good link to an article called, 'Why I try to do some things every day without exception'. It talks about how it can be harder to sustain something for 3 or 4 days a week as you end up spending more time working out if today is the right day and whether you can have today off. It says that novelty and challenge bring happiness but that the pleasure of doing something everyday shouldn't be overlooked.

"The things you do every day take on a certain beauty, and provide a kind of invisible architecture to everyday life."

Andy Warhol wrote:
"Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more."

Gertrude Stein wrote:
"Anything one does every day is important and imposing and everywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful."

I want to keep going through my urge to give up and only make a decision to widen the challenge because it's what I want to do not because I want to back out of something I have started and can't finish. It's daunting though - a year seems like a very long time.

Good grief - it's 10.20pm and I need to make something today. It;s going to be a quick one I think!

Good night, it's off to make I go!

Leanne x