Challenge within a challenge: Getting back on the radar

For any regular readers, you would have noticed I’ve gone a bit quiet recently. I checked and the last time I blogged about any new challenges was back in April! Now when I go off the radar, usually my family thinks it’s because I’ve got a new boyfriend, which isn’t the case here. At the moment dating wise I seem to be going on dates with lots of frogs, but have yet to find a prince yet. But for some reason life seems to have got in the way of my challenges.

I’m still on the never ending job hunt, and then I got a secondment at work, which has meant for the short term I am doing 2 full time jobs at the same time until they find a new me for my old job. Speaking to other colleagues who have been in a similar boat, this arrangement could last for up to 4 months! As a result I come home shattered without much energy for anything else.

With the new role and me being a social butterfly, it seems that the challenges have taken a back seat, and ultimately I haven’t completed them, meaning I’ve failed them.

I think from memory there are 3 challenges I started but haven’t completed: Health awareness, bible reading and writing a book in a month. Not completing these challenges is a good thing, it shows I’m human for one. Nobody is perfect and not every goal you reach for is met. I remember my cousin Miriam asking where do I find the time for all these things and over the past few months time has escaped me.

I will go back and try and complete these challenges as I feel I will get something out of them, but for now with my current work situation I’m going to downsize the challenges I set for the time being.

The next few weeks I’ll use as a catch up to reflect on some challenges I’ve done in previous months that I haven’t shown the outcome of. With July and August I’ll be setting myself one (yes ONE) challenge for each month, both which will be beneficial for my screenwriting.

Now from the outset, these challenges I set myself aren’t life defining in the grand scheme of things. The failure of these haven’t had an impact on my life; I haven’t lost any money, my health hasn’t been effected and it hasn’t impacted any of my friends or family. But I haven’t achieved what I set out to do.

As you may know I love a good quote and I was trying to find ones about failure, but they all seem a bit grand. I did find one which I don’t seem to high and mighty. ‘No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.’ Chris Hardwick.

So onto the next challenges!