Get Everything Done

For those who have participated in this 40 day challenge before, what is it that caused you to fail? What special effort did it take to succeed? What do you think it will take to make this year's effort a success?

The first risk of course is trying to work an untested system for 40 days. If the system is flawed it will fail. If it doesn’t fit you it will fail. Therefore trying in advance isn’t cheating. However, if it is the system you’ve used with success for 3 years straight, this clearly isn’t a challenge for you.

I have a tendency to drop a thing when it stops feeling shiny new and scratches and dents suow up. Although actually that.tendency only applies to systems, not any other things. (Yet this does extend to non-task-oriented systems. ). I have at times stuck with a process for many months albeit with occasional lapses, but a solid success has never coincided with a Lenten challenge. So the challenge for me is very real.

I have been striving hard to stick to my current system for many months, with mixed success (of sticking to it) and with much evolving as I aim for something that works well. I doubt I would have had any possibility of success much before now, but at this point I have a glimmer of hope. To be clear, I consider my present system successful, but my consistency slightly less so.

I think it may help my cause to spend more time each day contemplating. Free of distraction and stimulating input, reset my thinking patterns and re imagine how the coming time ought to be spent.