46-Hour Week Challenge
September 11, 2007 Posted by Tyler Cruz6-weeks ago I challenged myself to a 45-hour week challenge to see if I could force myself to work 45-hours within 7 days. I even put money up for grabs as more incentive.
The challenge was based on my earlier 40-hour week challenge to see if I was able to work a standard 40-hours in a week, however these new money-incentivized challenges are now more to just get me to simply work very hard for a week.
It may seem silly (as it probably is) to most readers out there, but when I do these challenges I get so much done that it isn’t funny. I typically do more work in one of these weeks than I do in an entire month. The compactedness (if you will) of the conditions also means that I’m forced to work longer stretches of hours which means I tend to get work done that requires those long hours… work that I usually put off or procrastinate on.
Anyhow, I managed to meet my 45-hours last time, but just barely, so this new challenge will definitely be close.
My new challenge, then, is to work 46-hours within 7 days which is one hour more than last time. And I’m even going to increase the prize money as well. The first 5 people who comment on this post will receive $25 each if I do not make the 46-hours by September 18th at 9:30am.
Please leave your PayPal address or if you don’t want to disclose that publicly you can e-mail it to me from the same e-mail that you have attached to your account here.
For those not familiar with these challenges of mine, you will be quite surprised how much work I get done. I’ll have many posts backlogged for my blog and my sites will flourish as a result of my hard work. You’ll see…. (hopefully)!
Anyhow, wish me luck. The next 7-days will be pure hell.
I’m in on this, will email you if you don’t make it 🙂
First 5 Comments including replies? Please say yes!
Could luck though, I have worked 45+ hours in 6 days :p
I kinda hope you don’t make it…
I wish you the best of luck. Unlike the guy above me, I hope you do make it, but if you don’t, I won’t be too upset. 😛
I think he just wants the $25. If you don’t want him to make it, his Kriptonite is poker.
Let’s see if you can do it.. #4 🙂
this should be moderately interesting. #5
First off your a pain in the ass for making me register to comment on your blog. I swore i would never make an account on a blog just to comment. Now look at me.
I just recently took the step of quitting my job and working online full time. My work schedule is completely random. Some days I will not feel like doing a thing and other days I will work for 10 hours straight. I think it evens out in the end.
I set similar goals for myself. They help alot, although mine are a little different. If i get all my work done i sit back and smoke a blunt. I guess its whatever will work for you.. But setting such goals is definately a good thing.
I wish you good luck Tyler. I should really give myself a challenge like this, but I’d pobably not meet my goals :).
The Swiss_Mouse needs to call in sick for a couple of days and work steadily on the Cheddarblog.
Right now it is a post “real” work pursuit that he can NOT find enough time to properly work on. He needs to dedicate some specific time to it and build a backlog of posts and a plan for promotion.
But if he did say home he probably wouldn’t work, he’d sit back eat cheese and watch reruns of CHiPs.
I was curious as to why your comment was in 3rd person pov. Then i looked at the blog and every post is like that too. Its nice to see someone try something a little different, although i couldnt really see myself reading it on a daily basis.
Ah, thank you. The Swiss_Mouse has made it a point of pride to be “slightly different”. The Swiss_Mouse wonders if the blog itself is unreadable on a daily basis or if the 3rd mouse point of view distressing to read? Hmmm…
No matter, followed your link.
Clogged Johns are the bane of the modern world! The Swiss_Mouse hails you for trying to inform the internet populate about how to fix this evil threat to western civilization! Cheddar to you!
That avatar is the cheesiest (no pun intended) thing I have ever seen.
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