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!

 
 

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A Month of Accomplishment (about)

 

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Forcing myself to finish something (about)

 

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A month of accomplishment

Written by Nathan on October 2, 2009 at 3:38 pm from A Month of Accomplishment.

Obviously every month’s project is designed in the hope that I successfully accomplish some goals. In face, part of the idea behind a year of month-long projects is that this would be a framework that help with achievement.

This month I’m going to apply that framework to a project I have going on that’s designed to generally increase people’s accomplishment. A friend and I are developing a small website that lets people share immediate goals, encourage others and get advice on how to achieve those goals.

By Halloween we’ll have the site up (in beta) and running, and I’ll track development process along the way.

While I work through this month of accomplishment, I’m going to run a secondary month-long project. In order to make sure that accomplishment doesn’t come at the expense of my family (which is always a risk give time is the ultimate zero-sum game) my kids and I are spending the whole month on a project for my wife. Jenn’s birthday is October 1, so we celebrated her birthday in typical style with presents and celebration. But this October, we’re going to keep celebrating giving her a birth-month party.

So this month it’s accomplishing a website to help with goal accomplishment, and a present a day for my wife. The best part of this month? If this month goes to plan I’ll have a happy wife and a great website to usher in Whiskerino on November 1.

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