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 February, and February was a …

A Month of Accomplishment (about)

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

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Failed attempts at rapid recovery

Written by Nathan on January 2, 2009 at 5:03 pm from A Month of Resolve.

I just woke up from a long nap that I took in the interest of super-charging my body’s recovery, only to feel worn out and groggy instead. The sore throat and congestion I awoke with this morning is still here too. But this project isn’t going anywhere, so I’m going to do some good stretching before I hit the road again.

My pace will be intentionally slower this time – three 9-minute miles would be ideal, so I could get a better feel for what the distance feels like when it’s uninterrupted.

For anyone following along, thinking that you should try running too, let me suggest this: Why not just commit to outrunning me? Perhaps Bush’s time is too fast (or stupid…) a goal. I haven’t exactly thrown the most intimidating gauntlet down. Maybe you can resolve to run three miles faster than the guy trying to run faster than Bush.

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