Some time ago, Steve Pavlina talked about creating habits effectively with the use of something he called “the 30 day trial“. Pretty much based on the idea that if you do something for 30 days consistently, you can turn it into a habit. He recently used it to do a 30 day trial of raw food, where he blogged in detail every day (including photos).
It inspired me to do a few things:
1) I tried exchanging some of my meals for raw food (mostly fruit) and I could notice that within weeks my weight / flab levels dropped. I haven’t tried a trial where I was doing that 24×7, but I plan to.
2) Think of applying the 30 day trial on somethings I want to do.
Currently I’m occupied by a couple of goals, that I’ve not been able to target and finish easily or early enough. It can be argued that these are formidable goals from where I started from, but then I take the blame for being terribly inconsistent sometimes.
I have a separate private journal where I chronicle the journeys towards those goals in detail, but I can give some overview here, without going too personal (It’s still not rocket science to trace my real name from this blog if you know how to hack a little 
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But what habits do I want to inculcate?
These are the ideas for the 30 day trial I would love to do:
1) meditate and do yoga everyday
2) keep my room absolutely cleaned everyday
3) train myself in taekwondo everyday
4) read a non-technical book everyday
5) speak to a stranger everyday
6) sketch a portrait everyday
7) read and blog about a few shlokas from the bhagvat gita everyday
It’s still a small list. But if you have any good ideas, feel free to know in the comments section.
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