Nerd Fitness: 6 week challenge

So, as I have posted before, I am a huge fan of what the Steve and friends have going on over at Nerdfitness.

Every six weeks they have a 6-week challenge. I have been meaning to join one for months, but just never got around to it. (You know what they say about good intentions.)

I'm going to crush this challenge!

Here are my goals:
Fitness:
1. Run 4 times a week - I am training for various mud run races this summer and love my long runs. I have just gotten back into it, and have made an arrangments with my wife to have days set aside for running.
2. Do a body weight work out at least 2 times a week - I have a workout planned, I just haven't started.

Diet:
1. No more than 20oz. of soda daily. (I am currently downing 1-2 liters a day!) Cutting down to 20 oz. will be a challenge, but I have done it in the past. Going cold turkey doesn't work for me. I need to cut back for a couple weeks. If I can do this for a couple of weeks, I will cut back even more; eventually weaning myself down to 0 oz.
2. No more junk food detours on the way to and from work.

Level Up my life:
1. Continue blogging on my blogspot account. http://catchityourself.blogspot.com/
(At least 3 times a week). I am currently running a 30 day challenge to blog once a day and am on day 12/30
2. Set up my science education website - I just registered the domain less than a week ago and am waiting for the domain to be transfered to my hosting company.

That's it for now.

Thanks for coming by!

-P Challenge 12/30

2013 Goal Reached - and Sunday Rewards.

Great news on the awesome front! Back in February, I listed some of my goals for 2013. One of my goals was to raise $1000 for a charity. The charity I chose was St. Jude's Children's research hospital. This hospital holds a special place in my family because a cousin credits this organization with saving her life.

She was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor when she was a child. Because of St. Jude, her family was able to afford cutting edge treatments and travel expenses. This charity made a difference. Through their treatments, my cousin beat a 6 months-to-live diagnosis and has been in remission for nearly two decades!

With the help of my family and friends I have been able to raise $1220 for charity! I can scratch this off my 2013 list, but I'm not done yet. The race is not for another two weeks, so I still have time to destroy this goal even more!


Also, I have slipped in keeping score for my motivation game, but I did record enough experience points to be able to draw a card today. My win? A motivational quote. I almost have enough for another card next week. Only drawing once gives me more motivation to record my xp this week.

"You know the rule ... if you are falling - dive" - Joseph Campbell
 

Keep up the good work. See you again tomorrow.

-P
Creativity Challenge 10/30 (33%)

My new motivation game.

I can't take credit for this idea. I got it from listening to the iProcrastinate podcast. Here's what I did. I took 45 note cards. On thirty of them I wrote down motivational quotes. One 15 I wrote prizes. 5 cards had prizes like "Spend two guilt free hours playing video games." or "Spend a night watching Netflix without worry." Five of them had prizes with a value of about $5-15, and the remaining five had prizes of items I really want with values over $15.

Now every Sunday I will give myself experience points based on the things I do. For example; if I don't spend money on junk in the morning I give myself 50 xp. If I don't spend it on junk twice a day I give myself 150 xp and if I don't buy junk at all I give myself 300 xp.  I also give myself 200 xp for every time I run in a week and a bonus 200 xp if I run all four times a week.

I make these mini-challenges so that on a perfect week I can earn 5,000 xp. For every 1,000 xp I draw a card at random. If I win a prize then I have to get the prize within the next 24 hours.

So far I've only drawn quotes last week (3 of them). Next week I am hoping for a prize.

-P

As far as the spending on junk challenge. I had a bad day yesterday, so I am back at 01/30.
I know I didn't post yesterday, but I am going to post twice today, plus I had a very productive creative day. Please stay tuned to this blog for a future post about what I have been working on in the past couple of days.

Creativity challenge: 06/30
Fiscal Responsiblity challenge: 01/30

30 Day Challenge: TED talk.

So here I am again. Tired. Pushed around. A little burnt out. But here. My dreams are killing me. I have too much inside that just needs to get out.

I just wanted to link to this TED talk. I think it might help me. Maybe it will help you too.

So here is my first 30 day challenge. I am going to pick two. I know that picking two will make it that much harder to complete. However, I need to do both of these.

30 Days of Creation - For the next 30 days I will do  the following (today counts): I will create content. I will practice producing my thoughts. I will post 30 (29 now) new blog posts or 4 panel webcomics to be posted in the future.

30 Days of Fiscal Responsibility - For the next 30 days I will not spend money friviously. This includes junk food, soda, and impulse buys. I will pay my bills on time. I will donate the remaining funds to my fundraiser by this weekend.

Day 01/30

Sunday Morning Rewards II

Starting Level: 1
Starting XP: 200
XP to next level: 800

Current Weekly Progress:
Challenge 001: 100 XP - Bloged 3x this week. Need to improve my schedule.
Challenge 002: 0 XP - Ran out of food on Friday, and then celebrated at a wedding on Friday, also ate out on Saturday. Need to improve in this challenge for next week.
Challenge 003: 100 XP (50 x 2)- Pet Sematary and The Running Man
Challenge 004: Did it! Boy was it hard. 100 XP
Challenge 005: Except for day of the wedding night. (6 x 10) = 60 XP
Challenge 006: 25 XP
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Weekly Tally: 385 XP
Ending XP: 585 XP
XP To next level 415 XP


Current XP

Sunday Morning Rewards

Starting Level: 1
Starting Exp: 0
Exp to Next Level: 1000

EXP Awaraded:
Challenge 001: 100
Challenge 002: 50 (100/6 *3)
Challenge 003: 50 pts - Different Seasons
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Weekly Total Award: 200 XP



New Level: 1
New Exp: 200
Exp to Next Level: 800