The 30-Day Challenge

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Tired of a bad habit but you just don't know how to stop it? The 30-Day Challenge is just right for you. 

I am a follower of Bo Sanchez's free weekly soulfood email and the January 23's soulfood entitled "Take The 30-Day Challenge" caught my interest. Here's what you should know first.

"According to psychologists, it takes 21 days to create a new pattern in your life. It takes 21 days to create a mental pathway in your brain, so that it becomes easier for you to do it.

So why not call it the 21-Day Challenge instead of a 30-Day Challenge? I don’t want to take chances. 21-Days is the passing mark. 30-Days is the honor mark!

Here’s the second reason why 30 Days only: It’s more doable.

If someone tells you, “Can you read one hour a day for the rest of your life?”, that can be overwhelming. But if someone tells you, “Can you read one hour a day for the next 30 days?”

All of a sudden, it seems more doable." - Take The 30-Day Challenge by Bo Sanchez

Mr. Socks Saves Me

Nine thousand (9,000) Korean won! Convert it to Philippine peso and you get about 340. That is all the money left in my wallet. Will I survive? Yes! But only until today.

Now why did I get in this situation? I went back for vacation in the Philippines and I used up all my money. I also bought a new Canon luxury lens (big thanks to my mom who lent me cash, else I couldn't have afforded it). Then I came back to Korea with money just enough for a week (again, from my mom). It was the 28th of January and I was expecting the salary from my part-time job would come on the 30th. But things didn't go as I expected as my salary was delayed to the 20th of February. I have been working as a part-time programmer at SystemixG and a teaching assistant at GEO while pursuing an MBA degree under scholarship at the Catholic University of Korea. After a week, I had to eat my pride and borrow money from my Filipino friends.

However, that money will run out today.  Today is my last stand! How will I survive then? I thought of loaning money from my friends again but  I feel shy. So I sat for a moment, thinking there might be another way.  Thinking... thinking... thinking... And ting! Yellow bulb lighting! I remembered Mr. Socks! I hurriedly rushed to my boxes, took a few minutes of scavenging and... found him!

Meet Mr. Socks. ^^

He's gotten quite heavy. At the back of my mind I was hoping he's gotten more 500 KRW (about 20 pesos) coins. To find that out, I got a basin and made Mr. Socks vomit. I separated every 500 from the rest (100, 50 and 10) and felt very uplifted every time I get one. The feeling of a kid hunting treasures in a birthday party - the more I find one, the happier I get. Big smile! Guess how much I got?