These past few weeks have been sort of difficult for me. I have been out of work for a while now and it was really starting to get to me. On Sunday night I had an epiphany of sorts. No one was going to get me out of this rut but me.
I had a job interview yesterday and I told myself, I was going to get it - and I did. That was just part one of my plan. You see, whilst I was out of work and in my rut, I was spending all day couped up in my room and not really doing much of anything. The only people I spoke to were my housemates, Tom and Pete and my close friends, who called or I was still managing to socialise with.
It was on Sunday that I thought to myself, why am I not speaking to more people, I am usually a social butterfly. It was then that I thought of the 5 a day challenge. The idea is to speak to 5 different people a day, people who were not my close friends, family or roommates, people I was interested in getting to know more but whom I never really got the chance to speak to regularly or at all. I also extended this challenge to people I have never even met.
I am already on day 2 and so far its been a very interesting experience but also a very enjoyable one. Calling up people and asking how there day went and also talking about my day has been an immensely positive experience.
I plan to write a more detailed post once the challenge has been completed but I have a feeling that I will continue to call more people everyday and just ask 'so how has your day been'.
