what happens next?

I've been thinking about what the goal of these challenges should be.

At the end of thirty days, do I want to continue with the goals, or will it have been enough? Are these changes that I want to incorporate in my life indefinitely?

I think the answer is: somewhat. For example, contacting an old friend every day for the rest of my life is just not feasible. I simply don't have enough friends to that. In fact, towards the end of these thirty days, I will probably be struggling to think of a friend to send a message to.

And without facebook, it would probably be near impossible.

But perhaps I will be better about staying in touch with people after this month. That would mean success to me.

Even if I don't, I will still have contacted thirty people that I otherwise probably would not have contacted. It feels good to do that, knowing how good it feels to be contacted myself. And who knows what effects these messages might have over time?

Something like posting in my blog everyday, however, would be possible to continue forever if I wanted to. But is that the ultimate goal here? I don't want to commit to that. But hopefully I will be better with updates.

And it's nice to know that it's not only possible, but actually pretty easy, to do something like this over thirty days as long as I simply define it as a goal.