Today, I pledged that I would do 1,000 pushups. A few people have asked why? Of course, I responded with, "why not?"
I'll have to admit, I became inspired to do this by a little girl in Isaac's kindergarten class. Yesterday, I was volunteering in his class and I noticed this girl would quietly get out of her chair and do 10 pushups. She did this about every 2 minutes at every single station. She didn't do it for attention nor did she disrupt anyone at the same time.
I asked her why she was doing them, of course shy as all get out, she just shrugged her shoulders. I thought to myself after that, "what an opportunity to challenge my self discipline." Besides, if a kindergartener can do it, I can too!
So here my little self discipline project...
1,000 pushups in 12 hours. I remembered an old statement, "How do you eat an elephant?" Answer- "One bite at a time." So, my plan is to do 50 pushups every 30 minutes. Now that I'm halfway through the day, I can see that I set my sights a little too low. It's funny how daunting tasks suddenly become small once you decide to take them on!
Stay tuned for when I do 2,000 in a day!
Respectfully,
Duncan Richardson
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Thanks for the great idea. Rob and took on your challenge, well he did 1000 I did 500, but frankly I'm suprised that no one else took on your pledge. We were very happy at how easy it was to do and we fill great.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the idea, lets do it again.