doing-not-thinkingThere seemed to be a fair amount of interest and I know I’m up for the challenge, so let’s have another round of the “Doing Not Thinking Challenge.” 

This is a challenge for all of us who make plans but don’t accomplish much for whatever reason.  It’s for those of us who spend a lot of time thinking and not enough acting and doing.  It’s not a competition to see who can accomplish their goals in the shortest amount of time, or about the size of the goal, but rather a network of dreamers joined together to offer support and encouragement.  We may find that as we put our dreams into action that some are just not reasonable at this point in time and that’s ok – its the going after it that’s important for this challenge. 

Like the last one, let’s give ourselves plenty of time to accomplish our goals.  Let’s set the last update for the week of the Autumn Equinox (September 20th).  This doesn’t mean that you must be finished with your dream / goal by the Equinox, it just gives us a time frame to work with in, some dreams may take years to fully accomplish.  This challenge isn’t specifically about accomplishment, its more about taking action towards realizing your dreams.

Want to “do” along with me?  Here’s what you need to do: Pick a dream or a goal, any one of your many.  Examples might be: exercising 3 days a week, creating a budget to be debt free by 2011, learning to dehydrate, decluttering, etc.  Post your dream/goal on your blog or feel free to just play along here in the comments.  Start small one to two goals, if you finish early you can add another later if you so desire.

Updating: Once a week on your blog or in the comments section of my update (I’ll be updating on Tuesday afternoons) – post your update.  Tell us what you did to accomplish your dream / goal.  What worked, what didn’t.  If you didn’t do anything that’s ok too.  I’ll create a page here at Two Frog Home with a listing of participants, dreams/goals, and links to everyone’s blogs so we can all follow along easily.  Feel free to use the icon for your own blog if you so desire.

I look forward to participating with whomever wants to play along.  I know that last time many good things happened and I believe that will happen again this time.

My Doing Not Thinking Goal is 3 fold:

  • To be making 1/4 of our mortgage payment through my side business adventures by the deadline of this challenge (Autumn Equinox).  This means I need to step up the business efforts slightly – but I do have some plans that will be kicking off in another month or so.
  • To be making 1/2 of our mortgage payment through my side business adventures by a year from now
  • The money I do make from my side business will be applied to our mortgage on top of the monthly minimum, which we currently pay from our monthly salaries.  This will enable us to pay off our mortgage (our only debt) sooner and with less interest over time.