![]() After all, losing all use of your dominant arm is quite a setback if you are planning on writing. The whole right arm was immobile and in a lot of pain.Īt this point I might’ve thought that maybe I can’t go on with the challenge. No movement whatsoever, I couldn’t use my fingers, I couldn’t use my hand. ![]() With my cuts and scrapes cleaned and bandaged up and an icepack applied to my right elbow, I was OK, but I’d totally lost the use of my right arm. After lying on my back for around 15 minutes, making strange noises whilst I dealt with the pain, I picked myself off the tarmac and with a blood stained T-shirt, gingerly got myself home. What happens when you get too cocky? You get a hard lesson.įlying down the road on my way home from Alexanderplatz I attempted something I haven’t landed in years, and clipping the curb, fell hard. I busted out a few new tricks that I haven’t in a while and was getting a little bit cocky. The sun was shining, I had music playing in my headphones and, skating on some newly paved smooth ass roads, I felt on top of the world. One third in to the 30 days of publishing, I was feeling great about my creative output and in an excellent mood. I was out on my skateboard early on the Sunday morning (I have found weekend mornings are the best times to skate as the city sleeps and you have the roads to yourself). The biggest example of this came on day 11 with an unexpected obstacle. Fully committing beforehandįully committing 100% to completing the challenge beforehand helped me to find ways and solutions through tight spots. Here I will share a few of those things and I believe these will be most useful for me to remember going forward into new challenges. There were also some very personal things I wrote about which I’ve never shared in public and was nervous about posting online.Īt those difficult moments, there were many things which helped. It was a challenging process and although letting go of those perfectionist tendencies was one of the main difficulties, there were were other hurdles such as days when I didn’t feel that motivated or inspired, and other days when I was tired and was still faced with the fact that I still had to crank out another piece. ![]() I learned an incredible amount about my writing process and was able to experiment with different ways of approaching writing articles, from structuring, drafting and also using different writing tools. However, I knew that my slow rate was due largely to overthinking and perfectionism and the idea of making a jump that was so ridiculous in this regard was that I knew it would push me to overcome this resistance and through whatever was holding me back. At the start of July I’d averaged around one post per month on the blog so this was effectively multiplying my output by a factor of 30 – no small amount. Going into the challenge I was both excited and nervous. I just arrived back on Wednesday and today wanted to take the time to sit down and review the challenge and allow the lessons and all that passed to sink in a little deeper. I’d originally planned to do a review on the final day of the month but in the end needed the time to prepare for a work trip to the Netherlands. With 5 months left this is very promising and by years end will set a nice new bar for me to reach in 2021. The month also nicely coincided with two other milestones for Maps of the Mind, the most views and visitors the site has ever received in a month, and also during the month, 2020 became the year with the most views and visitors. I can say that it has been one of the most interesting months of my life and so many things occurred, not all clearly because of the challenge, but in ways that I don’t think were entirely coincidental. It was an incredible month packed with synchronicities and very meaningful to me in terms of challenging myself and cultivating a growth and exploratory mindset. Last month I completed my most difficult 30 day challenge yet publishing a new blog post about psychedelics every day for 30 days of July.
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