What's your September Challenge? (sorry for the delay!)

My challenge for September is to incorporate 20mins of stretching into my daily excercise routine. I am losing far too much flexibility these days.

*edit*

Actually I should have two challenges. My other challenge is to spend 1 hour a day, 3 days a week practicing my dancing.

My Challenge is to do a morning routine. I actually was already doing one, but it included some haphazard waste of time stuff. :-) I used the good stuff I am already doing and added in things I want to do. Here is the routine. I'll post that I did it or the things I did not do each day:

5:00 up. Fix tea, pack lunch, take medication (was doing)
5:20 MIT - 1-3 things (new)
5:55 Exercise (new)
6:00 Meditate (new)
6:10 Fix breakfast (always!)
6:20 Read email. Empty Inbox. Read News (was doing)
7:00 Shower. Get dressed and go to work (was doing)

My time to get up has been 5:00 for a long time except that I have been from 15-45 minutes late on that for a long time. So this involves getting up on time.
On the weekend I can get up 1 hour later and adjust the order of things a bit, like breakfast so that I don't have to wait until after 7. I won't have to pack lunch. And on Sunday I won't exercise. I'll be doing my other usual exercise, but this 5 minutes is to alternate between 3 abs exercises on one day and 3 arms exercises on the alternate.

So far, I have done this since the 1st. It has been pretty easy so far. The MITs have been very concrete items and the exercise followed by meditation is quite nice.

Thanks for setting us up, Leo!

Anita

This is my first time doing this, so I'm keeping it easy. My challenge for September is to do one MIT by 9AM every weekday.

My first challenge!

I'm going to deal with emptying my inboxes. I waste a lot of time with meaningless e-mail checking; I'm going to reduce it to 4x daily (once I'm ready to leave for the day, at lunch, when I get home, and in the evening), dealing with every e-mail as it's received.

My September challenge will be to continue paring down and organizing my belongings until I reach the
"bedrock" level - so everything I own will be essential, and I'll have no old, excess, un-necessary, or
just unused stuff around to look at, deal with, store, move, etc. This project includes every paper file,
piece of furniture, clothing, kitchen utensils, recreational equipment, books, photos, etc - everything
I own.

My daily goal is to log at least 3 hours focused work time on this work daily, 7 days/week to get it completed
before the end of September. I'd like to do some 'burst days' in order to finish it sooner, once I can figure
out where the motivation will come from:)

Going into Thu Sept. 6 I am only {3:5}, so it's time to "step it up"!

-steve

I'm so glad this is back, Leo...Thanks for setting this up.
My goal is to get to bed absolutely no later than 11 p.m. each night...and hopefully earlier....so that I can readjust my body clock to daytime hours after working nights for a long time. Hopefully if I'm consistent my body will settle into a routine that works for me...and I won't be so tired and sleep-deprived all the time.
Good luck to all!

I'm sticking with my morning and evening routines, however, I plan to get up fifteen minutes earlier (5:45) and go to bed fifteen minutes earlier (11:15). I will also try to incorporate a core or functional exercise in with my stretching in the morning.

I want to keep repeating my previous goals because I fear they are not habits but
I haven't been checking in and i have kept up most of my goals.
My new challenge this month will be to read some literature daily.
Zamourai_02

My Monthly challenge:
Do at least 15 minutes of professional work every day. This can include: writing, brainstorming, revamping c.v., and reading.

I'm using the idea that 15 minutes will usually turn into more...and if it doesn't, well, hey...you've done 15 minutes worth of something!

Rebecca

My monthly challenge is to keep a food diary - this is because I lost a lot of weight but I have noticed it slipping back on. This will help me be more aware of what I am eating. I started the challenge on the 2nd

I've been keeping up my challenge without the forums, but the accountability is going to be useful!

My challenge is to keep a daily log of all financial transactions to help me with my budget, and with saving to go to India when I finish my PhD.

So far, I'm for 6 for 6! (and includes one day when I didn't spend anything, hurrah!) An extra task for Friday is also going to be to record any direct debits etc which have gone out of my account into my spreadsheet from my online banking software.

Glad the Sept. challenge is on.

My challenge is to keep up two previous challenges, with morning routine added:
sleep 8, morning routine, work at 8.

I might not start till Wednesday next week, because of schedule irregularities.

I like a previous poster's challenge of accomplishing an MIT by 9, but I don't want to pile this too high, so I might start that more casually, as I further nail down these other goals. I've had great slippage on these.

Also, I am still doing my goal of losing 20 pounds, but am reassessing my approach. I will continue my daily tallies of food and exercise calories, but I won't be posting that here. If in my reassessment I come up with something for the challenge, I'll add it later. I'm trying to shift around some other habits - less cafe time (with less consuming of food) and more time at a gym (and more exercise and classes) that will provide some of the social interface that I get at the cafe plus a positive health environment.

I'm back from my holidays and will join the September challenge now. August was a success again with 31/31 for my August challenge as well as my earlier challenges I did also report last month.

My goal for September is trying to become accustomed to my contact lenses. So I want to wear them every day - it wasn't possible in my holidays because I was swimming and on the beach very much as well as doing trips the whole day where I wouldn't have had the possibility to take them out when there are problems or I had them in my eyes long enough for the day. So I will start today or tomorrow.

Hi all

Hope its not too late to join the challenge...

Challenge: Get up early @ around 6 every morning.
Ive been staying up late due to internet and studies, i really want to get to bed early and become an early risers.
I will post my times every morning.


--Zenos--

Hi. This is my first post and I think Ill just join in if thats ok.

This is pretty much the same as zenos's but with and added twist.

Challenge:
1. Get up early around 6:00 or so and meditate for atleast 10 minutes
2. Make and use a hipster pda as a capture device (the ones the school gives us are to big for a pocket)

New to the forums too, but I'll just jump in right here.

Challenge: habit 2 of Leo's ZTD.

I'm a little late, but I'm new. Perhaps you can understand :)

I would like to throw in my very first challenge.

September's challenge: I am challenging myself to ten minutes of easy-going workout a day. I'm pregnant, so I can't overdo it.

There you have it. Now I have to figure my routine. And I'll get started tomorrow.