A Quest

I recently decided on a thirty day quest. One that will explore my priorities in my daily life and challenge me to make sure that things I value most are the things I put the most effort into each day. I thought thirty days was a fair amount of time. Long enough to feel like a commitment, and easily sustainable after the thirty days was up should I so desire, but not so grandiose as to be daunting. Officially the thirty day quest begins tomorrow, December 1st. This way while everyone else is making New Year's Resolutions I'll already have resolved a number of things. However, I've been taking baby steps in preparing for the quest since I first decided upon it. Preparatory steps, if you will. I think I will learn a lot about myself and suspect it maybe easier than I first thought.

But, then I stumble upon things that make me think I can do more and this first thirty days is really the preparatory steps. Things like Fair Game's interview with A.J. Jacobs. (link) He wrote a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. The interview cracked me up and I knew I'd buy the book and read it within the next thirty days. Then I read the reviews of the book and realized it may offer more than a few laughs. It may alter my own quest by suggesting greater self challenges or stretching of perceptions. Hmm...what started out as a Christmas gift to myself is becoming so much more... but most quests have more depth than meets the eye.