Cast Your Vote For November’s Challenge! [Poll]

Thank you for your amazing responses and suggestions to my previous post on November’s Challenge. It seems that many of you are keen on having a challenge for November, so we’ll be going ahead with one!

The next question would be: What challenge should we have? As my schedule for November is quite packed (I’ll be doing a lot of traveling in the month, from Philly to Washington to NY (complete with reader meet-ups in each state), and I’ll be busy looking for an apartment after I reach NY), my plan is to have a simple, cultivate a X habit daily for 21 days challenge.

I’ve read through many of your suggestions and these are the 3 challenges which I’m most keen to conduct in November:

1. Fitness / Exercising / Get-active challenge. Engage in some form of exercise, be it running, walking, jogging, swimming, aerobics, doing house work, climbing the stairs, etc
2. Journaling / Self-reflection challenge. Journal on important, self reflective questions about yourself and your life – hence leading to increased in self-awareness. I’ll assign a new question every day, at the blog. We’ll all journal on the same questions and share our answers here on the site.
3. Cultivate [X] habit. Where [X] refers to any habit of your choice. Since all of us have different habits we want to cultivate, this will allow everyone to participate, while not having to conform to a particular habit. Note that such a challenge comes with a downside – we’ll not get as much synergy compared to if we work together on a same activity, like in #1 or #2.

Besides the list above, there are ideas which I’m keen to explore for challenges next year (but not for the upcoming November challenge, as I don’t have the time/resources to work on them at the moment):

1. Improving relationships - Improve the relationships with people of our choice – be it parents, friends, siblings, colleagues, bosses, etc.
2. Communication skills – Have difficulty communicating with others? Want to improve how you converse with others? This will be the challenge for that.
3. Raw food challenge - Go on a total raw food diet for 21 days
4. Juice fast challenge - Go on a complete juice fast for 21 days
5. Career development – Challenge to improve our career standing, via working out our career objective, understanding our career vision, working out a career map, identifying our key performance indicators, improving our workplace performance, etc.
6. Business development – Identify our business, ideal vision, business model, goals, preliminary steps to start it up, and so on.
7. 80/20 challenge – Apply the amazing 80/20 principle in all areas of our life – from the big rocks, to the day-to-day actions.
8. Socializing/Making new friends – To meet like-minded people and increase the friends in our network
9. Learn a skill - Pick a new skill to develop in 21 days.

And there are the mainstay challenges which will be in 2012 and the years beyond:

1. Healthy living – Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days (Jan ’12 – Tentative)
2. Life development - Live a Better Life in 30 Days (Jun ’12 and Dec ’12 – Tentative)
3. Character development – Be a Better Me in 30 Days (Date to be decided)

So for now, I’d like to get your vote on which challenge to have for November, out of the 3 options I stated above. Please cast your vote in the poll below:

Update: The poll has now ended. Journaling is the top pick with 158 votes, out of 294 voters! Thanks everyone who has voted and proceed to the November Challenge: 21-Day Journaling Challenge

The option with the highest votes will be selected as the theme for November. I’ll close the poll and consolidate the results 48 hours from now (Oct 26, 12pm, GMT +0 London time). So cast your vote now! Stay tuned for the final outcome after that!