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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Ending this month with a exercise in extremes

Written by Nathan on January 30, 2009 at 10:23 pm from A Month of Resolve.

Today marked my first easy workout. Tomorrow will mark my hardest workout. An exercise in extremes, and hopefully one that leads to a successful end to this first project with the running of my first 5k.

I’m not sure what time I’ll post – owing to an overplanned day, I never managed to pick up my race packet which means that I’ll have to arrive at the race even earlier than I would otherwise. So I’ll be heading from my home around 5:30 which is more frequently a time that I go to sleep than a time I wake up. Couple that with an expected cold morning, and I don’t expect my body to be particularly cooperative.

But whatever drawbacks I’ll have pride, shame and adrenaline pushing me to do well. We’ll find out which circumstances win tomorrow—around the same time you’ll find out what my next month’s project will be. Should be a good day!

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