Try something new for 30 days - Matt Cutts

Interesting talk by Matt Cutts on trying something new (or subtracting something) for 30 days.
What are you waiting for?



Time passes so quickly and before you know it the next 30 days would have gone.
Seneca wrote in 'On the shortness of life' that we waste our time and we don't appreciate it, so why not do something beneficial for the next 30 days. Matt Cutts mentioned  the following items to either add or subtract from his life.


Adding to his life
Bike to work
10,000 steps/day
Take a picture a day
Write a novel

Subtracting from his life
No TV
No Sugar
No Twitter
No Caffeine

And what happened? Time becomes much more memorable. It doesn't fly past.
He then began to set himself more and harder challenges and he even managed to climbing Mount Kilamanjaro!

He said if you really want to do something badly enough you can do anything for 30 days.

You could even write a novel. Every November,  many people write a 50,000 word novel from scratch in 30 days. That is 1667 words a day /for a month. The next time you are at a party you can  then say you are a novelist!
Check out the website for more details
https://nanowrimo.org/about
https://nanowrimo.org/how-it-works

He also found  that small sustainable changes are more like to stick.
If you were feeling really keen you could try doing it for 66 days as the latest research shows that a habit takes 66 days -see research from scientists at London university below.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0908/09080401

The next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not so why don't you try something you've always wanted to try and in 30 days time, just think how great you will feel.

So what are you  waiting for?