Do you dare?
Are you one of those gung-ho individuals ready to take on the world? The kind of individual that says, “Damn the economy. Nothing’s going to stop me, I’m surging ahead with my plans!”

The sort that would be eager to take on a challenge of being disciplined enough to consistently doing one particular task each and ever day. In this case the challenge thrown out by one writer on the net was for others to write a story, a day, ever single day for an entire year.

The story goes that the person who initially sparked this off had challenged himself to write a poem a day, for an entire year. He succeeded though some of the poems turned out to be relatively short. But the important point was that at the end of the year he had enough to publish a book! Wow!

Impressed and inspired, in 2008 I was determined to follow suit with my own set of short stories for children.

I started out in January, slacked off somewhere in April, recommenced in June, slacked off …. See a pattern there? Obviously, I wasn’t as tenacious as that guy.

BUT, the point is that when I flipped through the stories last night (March 2009), I liked some of the stuff I had produced. Maybe there is something in that idea after all. It did produce results, encouraging me to take it up again.

Hmm …. This definitely goes into the “something to ponder on” list. Why not throw yourself a similar challenge? Fill the blanks below and, ……. I won’t say “Good Luck”. Cos with or without it, I know you’ll succeed!

For the coming 12 months, I will spend at least 15 minutes a day ___________ . This will help in my efforts to ___________.