Okay, so I've kind of failed at keeping up with my 30 day challenges. I would like it known that for November I ended up doing NO CHOCOLATE MILK for the entire month. This was such a good exercise for me... this is the girl who used to come home from school and would get headaches if I didn't have my chocolate milk. And when I say chocolate milk, I mean milk with about 1/2 inch worth of Hershey's syrup. I now am not quite as addicted - though yes, for all of you who just snorted at that, those who have seen my crazy necessity for the substance, I still do have massive cravings that cannot be appeased by anything but the milk de chocolate... just not every day. Anyway, I made it a whole month without it and it actually wasn't too bad. It's true that the less sugar you have, the less you crave it.
December I did the getting in touch with people. I sent out some postcards and saw some old friends. I know December was weaksauce, but it just was busy with holidays and work.
January has proven a bit difficult, and seeing as it's halfway over, I think I have quite failed this month. I might make this a work related challenge, since that is something I have already been doing. I am going to say that I have to recruit 150 patients by the end of January. That seems a little ambitious, but we're already at about 85, so I think it can be done. Let's see!
Just to be clear - when I say recruitment, I mean that I sit in a doctor's office checkout area and basically sell my body. I mean study. I have to walk up to people and ask if they want to do my study. This means a lot of rejection. I tell myself this is character building. It also means that I have to remember that I have a voice that only dogs and small children can hear. The other day I walked up to an elderly man, who happened to be reading a book. Standing about a foot away from him, I said, Hello sir, excuse me. (NO response... I speak up) Excuse me, sorry to bother you (nothing). I look, completely flustered, at the checkout lady, who has witnessed this whole situation, and quietly and quickly run back into my safe little interview room. Yes, I win the award for most awkward person in the world every single day.
I do enjoy recruitment though - I get to talk to so many great, new people every day, and many of them share such wonderfully inspiring stories with me.
My other goal for January is to start writing stories of things that happen to me daily - mostly these will be recruitment and Starbucks misadventures, because some are just too great not to share with the world.
carpe diem, hakuna matata, no day but today... redhead OUT.
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