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How I Picked a 30-Day Challenge in Spite of My Multipotentialite ADHD Brain
There’s a method to the madness
The attraction of a 30-day challenge is seductive to me. It’s a small enough container that I can see the finish line no matter how miserable it gets, and it’s a long enough commitment that it feels like a force multiplier in whatever discipline I choose.
I know that at the end of the 30-day challenge I will be a different person than when I started it.
The 30-day challenge came into my mind because I’ve been listening to the audiobook “1000 Words” by Jami Attenberg. While it became a huge phenomenon and movement, it started quite simply in 2018, when she was
“…faced with a looming deadline, needed writing inspiration. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words daily for two weeks straight. They opened this practice to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds then thousands of people started using the #1000WordsofSummer hashtag to track their work and support one another” (from Simon & Schuster website).
By focusing on this one project that she knew she had to do, she managed to both shut out the many other things that could distract from the project and also…
