Day Seven: The Finale

This blog post is a bit late as my internet/laptop is now seriously going awry but I am here, typing away on my Mothers laptop before the 12 O'Clock deadline, not that I actually set a deadline but still.

This blog is the final blog in my Challenge and so it better be pretty climatic or you're all going to be dissapointed, right?

Well!

Today I've been hungover, to an extreme, while having to face the busy day of a Somerfield shift, and by busy I mean I did practically nothing for 6 hours and got paid for it. The reason for my state was because we went out yesterday evening to say Auf Weidersehen to Liz as she moves to Germany for a year as part of her course. As I mentioned in my first ever blog, apart from the ones explaining my blog, about a certain Daniel Winter, I think its a really good and brave decision. If anything I'm a combination of pride and jealousy and definitely don't think it would be anything to regret. So best wishes to Elizabeth!

I could talk again for hours on end about the value of new experiances but I won't bore you with that old spiel.

I've decided its only natural to asscess the Challenge, or Challenge 1 as it is going to be called. The aim was to get me to write more and post more blogs and as I have hit the target of Seven blogs, with this concluding the challenge, I think I have achieved that. It was a struggle and some of the blogs show this, due to time or inspiration constraints. The one thing I found didn't happen, which usually would with me, is my motivation didn't die and I looked forward to blogging, rather then procrastining.

The idea of Challenging oneself appears to me to be a succesful way of getting stuff done and I am going to try to utilise it in the future. The main reason for this, I think, is you make a commitment to yourself rather then something easy to break you actually have goals, which really do help. Another reason is, as i've mentioned before, you, the public. As I am blogging if I fail everybody knows and I have to strive to achieve so I don't look silly so thank you to those of you that have followed and read.

A graph to show the 'hits' recieved each day of this week on my blog.

The highest hits I got were when I advertised on facebook, these were in the 20's, the lowest I got was 4, one of whom I know is myself.

As the graph shows, I had a few readers, even if they might just be one person refreshing, but it kind of shows who bothered, or just who was bored on Facebook. A few people have gotten back to me, often with encouraging words, which makes me think maybe I do have something to say afterall, and now the challenge is over, and I dont have to think of a topic each day and thus exhaust most my thoughts, maybe I could go back to writing at least one a week, and I might actually have something interesting to say.

In the end its been very productive. I am pleased with myself and hopefully this is a new start. I'm also going to challenge myself more, and maybe I might start to be productive without such a structured method. I will blog again tommorow with what this weeks challenge will be, maybe you will follow that too.

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