Prologue

Over the years, I’ve worked harder and harder to find meaning in life. But the more I've looked, the more I’ve wondered if I was going about my search the wrong way.

I've been looking for meaning through experience, but I think now that I've always had it backwards. Life will never be defined by extravagant experience, but about finding extravagance in common experience. So for 2009, I'm going to focus less on living large, and focus more on living well. Each month I'll start a new month-long project (like trying to run 3 miles faster than George Bush), to find uncommon results from common experience. Each project will involve daily activity, so every day of 2009 you can check my progress on the monthly projects and see what I discover.

None of these projects will cost much—in fact, I think most will be free. So if you're looking for a year uncommonly rich, you can join me. There's no membership required, just participate and comment if you want. Either way, get ready for a year I hope is unlike any other.

Epilogue

I stumbled across the finish line, but I manage to complete 8 of the month-long projects successfully. Blogging is now over at Wonderfam!

It's September, and September was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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10% off sale!

Written by Nathan on January 2, 2009 at 6:06 pm from A Month of Resolve.

My goal was three 9-minute miles, and I came pretty close. 26:35 for today’s run, meaning I bettered yesterday’s time by almost 10%. If I keep that rate of progress up, I’ll have this in the bag next week. Of course, that would make me Steve Austin.

I ran the first mile in 8, the second in just less than 11 and the third in a little under 8. A little nausea and exhaustion did me in halfway through the second mile (I apparently didn’t heed my own advice from yesterday), but I’m happy that I may have actually run two miles faster than Bush ran three.

To celebrate my success, I’m going to Chick Fil A with my family, and then to find some slippers. My feet need them.

(1) Comment

One Response to “10% off sale!”

John-Erik says:

January 3, 2009 at 4:07 pm

I thought i’d run one of these to see how I compared to the leader of the free world.

Turns out Bush would have lapped me at my ridiculous time of 45 minutes and 59 seconds.

I personally think it was my shoes and lack of a good play list.

I may change it up a little bit and try instead of beating Bush’s time to beat Harald V King of Norway.