2010-07-18T15:18:39-07:00 http://davedash.com/ Dave Dash dd+atom1@davedash.com 2007-02-26T00:00:00-08:00 http://davedash.com/2007/02/26/the-30-day-trial <p>Occasionally I'll read <a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/">Steve Pavlina's blog</a>. If you're looking to improve some aspect of your life, it will serve as a good resource.</p> <p>He has a post called <a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/">30 days to success</a> which applies the idea of the 30-day trial to the real world. For example, instead of quitting smoking, try committing to only quitting for a month. If you like the results <em>then</em> you can quit forever. The idea is that you psychologically might be willing to accept a certain state of affairs if it's only temporary versus if it's a permanent life change.</p> <p>I was intrigued when I read it and I had started a few blogs so I committed to writing a post each day on at least one of the blogs. It worked well at first. Great, I might add, but toward the end of the trial I started falling. It eventually didn't work.</p> <p>That's not a bad thing. It was a lot easier to do that then to commit to writing a post daily for the rest of my life. Now I only feel like those 30 days weren't a success... not my entire life ;) I did learn a lot.</p> <ul> <li>Sometimes inspiration doesn't hit at 5am every morning.</li> <li>Writing on a schedule is a chore and therefore not fun.</li> <li>Writing a post a day made quality suffer.</li> </ul> <p>So I learned a lesson. Of course, I did end up not writing that much after the trial either... so it's important to know when to stop. I still like the idea of the 30 day trial, and plan on trying it again.</p> 2004-03-14T00:00:00-08:00 http://davedash.com/2004/03/14/welcome <p>A while back, I discovered LiveJournal. I thought, cool, but I don't need it, I've got my own site. I visited other people's LiveJournal's and then got to thinking... hmm there's something to this. One. I never post any updates on my web site. Two. Someone else is doing the hard stuff of keeping track of my journals. and the selling point... Three. the community kicks ass. It reminds me a bit of BBSing days and a bit of iT days (if anybody remembers that).</p> <p>So anyway, here I am, here I remain. Hopefully I'll get some time to work on my website davedash.com and get the behemoth Photo Gallery up and running as well.</p>