Children’s Book Challenge

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I am curious if attempting to get it published is worth pursuing and what all possibilities there are. One thing I do know is that right now there are zero possibilities because what I wrote years ago has just been sitting there, dormant and not doing anything. That is where the 60 day challenge kicks in.

Doing these challenges has given me the opportunity and motivation to pursue things I have been curious to try but up to now never have pursued. The odd thing is these 60 day challenges are not really any different from any other time in my life. What I mean by that is I have not been given any more time or opportunity to pursue things. I have not been given any extra opportunity through a clinical study to try the gluten and dairy free challenge. I was not given free Spanish guitar lessons nor am I under a book contract. Each of these challenges are being pursued in the same exact circumstances I would be in if I weren’t publicly pursuing them.

The one difference is I now feel challenged to try things. Not wanting to make a fool of myself or seem as a quitter helps motivate me some but the challenge and motivation is driven mainly by a change in mindset. I could easily just scrap the whole 60 day challenge. I could go as far as to scrap this whole blog and idea of Get to It! I could but I’m not going to because I want to know what may happen if I just keep on pursuing. It’s an internal drive of curiosity and a hard-headed insistence that keeps me blogging, that pushes me to try things and share, even if many aren’t following my exploits. The drive isn’t in how many people see what I am doing but in the actual pursuit.

Even at that none of this is really about me. I blog not to boast of my exploits but to show what can happen if you just pursue things, pursue life. It is about you and what you can do, what you want to do. What passions, what hobbies or interests do you have? I am sure like me, you have had things you have wanted to pursue but for this or that reason sat them aside for another day. Well, that another day is now here so let’s start pursuing them. What passions or interests do you have? What ideas do you have that you have wondered about pursuing? Give yourself a 60 day challenge to do them. Start with one challenge, push yourself to try it for 60 days. Then maybe try another challenge, and then maybe another. One thing is for certain, if you never try you will never know.

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