All 30 Day Challenges (Roadmap)

What are 30 Day Challenges?

Back in 2011, I was inspired by a TED Talk by Matt Cutts about the 30 Day Challenge and decided to embark on my own. (If you haven’t watched it, Matt explains it better than any summary I could muster):

Uhh… Why?

Hopefully after 30 days of doing something worthwhile, you can maintain a good habit and incorporate it into your life. These challenges test your personal motivation and I think are most valuable when they’re not explicitly restrictive in nature (e.g. cutting out soda, sweets, caffeine, etc). I try to design these challenges to produce content or try new things.

30 Day Challenges Completed so Far (Jan 2020)?

1. Epic 30 Day Challenge (Nov 2012) + Reflections
2. 30 Day Health Challenge (May 2013) + Lessons Learned
3. 30 Day Cooking Challenge (Nov 2013) + Impressions
4. 30 Day Fitness Challenge (Dec 2013)
5. 30 Days of Haiku Every Day (July 2014) – Lasted 6 months
6. 30 Lists of 30 Challenge (Nov 2014)
7. 30 Questions of the Day (Sept 2015)
8. 30 Actions of the Day (Mar 2016) + Part 2
9. 30 Day Drawing Journal Challenge (Oct 2016) – Daily for a year, but still on-going at least twice a month
10. 30 Day+ Summer Sabbatical (June 2018) – 30 Selfies with 30 Friends
11. 30 Days of Drawing Evie (Mar 2019)

Ever since completing my 30 Under 30 milestone of accomplishments, I have stretched myself to come up with a pretty crazy 40 Under 40. One of them is completing 40 30-Day Challenges.

New List of 30 Day Challenges?

1. 30 Days Being Sober Curious (2020) – Completed + Reflections
2. 30 Day Coronavirus Cooking Challenge (2020) – Completed!
3. Contacting 30 Idols (2020) – Planning
4. 30 Day Evie Whiteboard Challenge (2020) – In Progress
5. 30 Days of Origami (2020) – Planning
6. 30 Days Cutting Back Phone Usage (2020) – < 2 hours a day – Collecting Data, but also hard to do
7. 30 Days of Making Mindmaps – Planning
8. 30 Days of Printed Photos – Planning
9. Appreciating 30 Friends’ Successes (2020) – Planning
10. 30 Days of Architecture Whiteboarding
11. 30 Tourist Days in NYC
12. 30 Days of Healthy Cooking Recipes
13. 30 Days of Recording a Podcast
14. 30 Days Replacing YouTube with Masterclass and Khan Academy
15. 30 Days of Drawing a Comic Book
16. 30 Days Learning Survival Techniques
17. 30 Days Trying 30 New Skills
18. 30 Day Saitama Workout
19. 30 Days of Palates
20. 30 Days of Exotic Cooking Recipes
21. 30 1-second EveryDay videos
22. 30 Day Coding Challenge
23. 30 Days of Volunteering
24. 30 Days of Singing 30 Songs
25. …

I tried making a List of 30 to create 30 of these 30 day challenges to complete, but it proved much harder when I wanted them to be significant to the next few years. I’m still coming up with more ideas and open to suggestions!

~See Lemons Execute 30 Day Challenges