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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The words may have been delayed, but the action was constant

Written by Nathan on June 2, 2009 at 9:37 pm from A Year of Months.

The challenge to chronicling a daily project is that the sometimes the daily documenting interferes with the doing. But just because there are no words, doesn’t mean there isn’t something working behind the scenes. In fact, for the previous two months this project has continued.

April was a month of making the exceptional routine. Every day a something unique—a wedding, a theme park, a date, etc.

May was a month of making the routine exceptional ~or~ 31 days of moustache.

So the writing slowed, but the project’s pace has continued and should continue unabated.

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