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A 1,000 miles

Posted on by philipdodson

Ok, so those who know me will know that occasionally I do things without much thought. My mate Bernie always laughs about my 30-day challenge, I did 8 challenges all at once, instead of just 1, every day for 30 days. Yes, unsustainable.

Anyway, I chap called Simon Jordan, who I only know through Facebook, I am not even sure how we got connected, a friend of a friend. Anyway, he’s a super active bloke, I like his posts a lot, last year he climbed to Everest Base Camp, started an amazing campaign called ‘5 Things Clear’ about clearing up rubbish from beaches and is a super positive and inspirational person.

This week he posted a challenge on Facebook to join him in running (or walking, phew!!!) a 1,000 miles in 2018. Well, that doesn’t seem much I thought and I like walking so I said ‘I’m in’ and joined the club on Strava and set off yesterday for my first walk to the nearby lake through the woods and fields, up and down hills, very muddy, Cookie our dog loved it as always, got home 3.1 miles done. Great.

Set off today for the same walk, upped it a bit by taking a slightly longer route back, 3.7 miles. Great.

That means I have 993.2 miles to go in 359 days!! SHIT – that is 2.8 miles a day, every single day for the next 359 days.

I am going to need to up the game a lot more, as there will be days when I will not be able to do it. Or is that the old mentality of ‘not enough time’ bullshit, Philip?

Well, yes it is and as I know from my daily blogging (2 years and 4 months now) and my daily writing journal (928 days completed out of the last 929 and current 757-day streak) that there is always time for the things that you really want to do.

So, I have decided to add to the 1,000 miles challenge in 2018 by doing a 1,000 pieces of writing and that will include my personal blog (365) and my daily writing journal (365) and that leaves another 270 blogs to write on things like coworking, productivity, deep work and other articles related to my Deep Work Project. I won’t publish my 750 Words writing journal, I’ll spare you the ramblings of my mind, but the other 635 posts I will on here as always and on the Deep Work Project site.

Finally, as I do a piece of daily art/photography already as one of my daily rituals, I am going to create/take a 1,000 photos/pieces of art in 2018 and then publish them too. I will post these on my Instagram.

So that’s 1,000 miles walking, 1,000 pieces of writing and create 1,000 pieces of art/photos by the end of 2018.

Shit, it’s going to be a busy year!

Night pictures

Posted on by philipdodson

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So on Saturday, here in Fuerteventura, as part of the Copass Camp that I’m on, there is a photography class, run by Stefano.

I knew that the class was running but I decided not to join, much as I have always wanted to learn more about photography. However, I did decide to pack my Canon 400D camera, which since I bought it about 6 years or so ago, has only ever taken pictures on the automatic setting.

I looked at all the dials, menus and other settings, and opted for the safety of the automatic picture.

The camera took decent pictures and like many of us, once smart phone cameras became good, I switched to taking selfies on my iPhone and the Canon stayed mainly in the draw.

So I was determined during this camp to take a few pictures. So on Saturday, I got the camera out and Eric started to show me what the various dials and settings did. Wow, we opened up a whole new world of photography, I found out there was an aperture and shutter speed, even what ‘ISO’ settings meant.

After dinner, Stefano, Ann, Eric and I went out to the seafront and took some night photos, something I would have never done had I not asked a few questions.

This blog though is not about photography, it is about realising that there are things that we want to do in life, we put them off because we feel we do not have the skills needed. The thing is, a lot of what we do not know in life, can be found out by just asking some questions.

Yet another great day, which would not have been possible without coworking.