第56期 Try Something New for 30 Days（1）

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days.

几年前， 我对老一套感到枯燥乏味，因此我决定追随伟大的美国哲学家摩根·斯普尔洛克的脚步，尝试去做30天的新事情。

The idea is actually pretty simple. Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days. It turns out, 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit -- like watching the news -- from your life.

这个想法的确非常简单。想想那些你常想在生活中做的事情，在接下来的30天去尝试一下。事实证明，30天刚好是生活中一段合适的时间去养成一个新的习惯或者改掉一个习惯——例如看新闻。

There's a few things I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was, instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable.

当我在做这些30天的挑战时，我学到一些东西。 第一就是，这段时间没有飞逝而去，被快速地遗忘，它反而更加令人难忘。

This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day. I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew.

其中的一个挑战是一个月内每天我都要去拍摄一张照片。我清楚地记得那一天里我去了哪里，我干了些什么。同时我也注意到，随着我开始做更多、更难的30天的挑战时，我自信心也增强了。

I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work— for fun. Even last year, I ended up hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.

我从一个每天坐在电脑前的宅男变成了一个爱骑自行车去工作的人——仅仅是为了娱乐。甚至在去年，我登上了非洲最高山峰——乞力马扎罗山。 在我开始做30天挑战之前，我从没有这么爱冒险。