Complete (100)

100 days ago, I hesitated to begin a practice of doing something every day for 100 days. I have never been able to hold myself accountable to these types of challenges. Or, truly, anything at all. I have viewed myself as a failure for far too long. I need external motivators and accountability factors. Often, I find myself spouting out an idea to my friends via text message, and then I never copy and paste that into a document to work off of because I’ve already received the validation I needed in their immediate response. I need an audience to stay accountable. 

Looking back through my blog posts, it’s easy to see the days I had something to say and those on which I didn’t, and just pulled stuff out of my butt to type about. Most days, I had an idea brewing because I was active and something random inspired the short entry. I enjoy certain posts more than others, and it’s clear that I spent more time on those. This has been a great exercise all around, for my writing muscles, for the confidence I have in myself for sticking with it, and for the brief time management skills. 

How do you measure 100 days? In these hundred days, I wrote about my love Mike, our dog Jorah Borkmont, Michigan, camping, family, friends, my psyche, the origin of my screen name, media and beer that I have consumed, a Caribbean vacation, home decor projects, cooking, Cedar Point, connecting with my inner child, sports, attempting to sell items online, and so much more. All of this composes what I call my life. Everyone is more than what they present in any given moment. Everyone has more facets than we could ever hope to see. I’m trying to see most of mine while I still can. This is how I will continue to measure my days.

I want to thank author Visakan Veerasamy for suggesting this challenge to us participants in Michelle Akin’s Break Up With Your Bull Shit Live event. It has been a pleasure keeping up with this and sharing my random thoughts in this one space that I created for myself on the internet. It’s also been wonderful keeping up with Dustin Muise while he choreographed dances on TikTok (muisely13) for his 100 day challenge that started a day after mine. Thank you for being an inspiration and accountability buddy, Dustin. I’m currently in Michelle’s Spotlight Program, in which I will learn how to grow an audience so that I get more readers and viewers on YouTube. I will be working on my YouTube channel during this series more, because I think it’s easier to get traction with that than it will be on a blog. They might help each other. My readership has fallen as I got closer to this last post. I wish I knew if there was a particular reason for it and if there’s something I can do about it. I have many things to think about for my social media presence. I’d like to actually sell books when I’m done writing it. 

If you have kept up with my entire challenge, thank you. If you have read just a few entries, thank you. If you have shared my links with anyone, thank you! If you are in my life for any reason at all, thank you. 

Also, thank you to those who reminded me to reward myself for sticking with it! I have my very first ever facial booked tomorrow as my reward. I’m relaxing now just thinking about it.