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November is over and it’s time to fess up. How did your 30 x 30 challenge go? I’d love to know whether you were able to put in 30 minutes a day and what you accomplished. And if you weren’t able to do 30 minutes, did you do more than you might otherwise have done? Any insights from the month?

The focus of my month was blogging. In the mid-month check in, I wrote, “I hope to be able to tell you at the end of the month that I’ve posted at least twice on each of my three blogs. (This post counts!)” I did post three times on Organize Your Family History (if you count today’s post), and I posted twice on Peace of Mind Organizing (if you count today’s post) and I posted twice on Peace of Mind Spending (if you count today’s post). I’m going to cut myself some slack and say I met that stated goal. But I also wrote in that post, “My hope is to spend at least a half hour a day each weekday in the next two weeks on blogging. I’ll most likely take Thanksgiving and the day after off.” I did not devote that kind of time to blogging. So that’s a fail.

I hope at least some of you who had committed to the challenge did better than me! I’d love to hear about it. Please post a comment and let us know how it went for youQ

We’re halfway through this month’s 30 x 30 challenge and I’d love to know how it’s going. For those of you who are participating: have you been able to put in 30 minutes a day? Or have you averaged 30 minutes a day? Even if you haven’t, have you found the challenge helpful?

I had said that I was going to use my 30 x 30 challenge this month to focus on blogging. And then I completely forgot about that commitment. It doesn’t help that I was on a trip to New York with my college pals most of last week. But the fact is I have not posted on any of my blogs this month! The good news is that I’ve now reminded myself of this commitment and I can start again.

I hope to be able to tell you at the end of the month that I’ve posted at least twice on each of my three blogs. (This post counts!) My hope is to spend at least a half hour a day each weekday in the next two weeks on blogging. I’ll most likely take Thanksgiving and the day after off.

So what about you? There’s no report you can make that would be less embarrassing than the one I just made. Please let me know how it’s going!

I thought it might be fun to do a 30 x 30 challenge next month. If you participate, you commit to doing 30 minutes of genealogy research/organizing/whatever for 30 days in a row (i.e. the month of November). The “rules” of this challenge are very fluid. For example, you could decide that, for you, 30 minutes daily translates into 15 hours of activity over the course of the month. And, if you’re in the U.S., you could use Thanksgiving weekend to get in the bulk of the time. Whatever motivates you is great.

I’m personally not doing a lot of genealogy research these days but I think I’ll use the challenge for blogging. I have three blogs: this one, my organizing blog at Peace of Mind Organizing, and my YNAB blog at Peace of Mind Spending. I’d like to spend 30 minutes a day working on at least one of the blogs. I’m going to adapt the rules (see what I mean about fluid?) to mean 30 minutes each weekday and I’ll take the weekend off.

If you’re up for the challenge, please let me know in the comments. I always hearing what you plan to work on during the challenge!

Who’s up for a July 2025 30 x 30 challenge? I haven’t done one since January so it feels overdue. If you’re interested in committing to doing 30 minutes of genealogy research or genealogy organizing (or anything else, really) every day for 30 days, let everyone know in the comments. Sometimes the accountability of the commitment can jump start your research. I’ll have a check in post mid-month and a wrap-up post at the end of July.

As I’ve blogged about before, daily research is a great way to stay in touch with your research, keep your momentum going, and eliminate the “what should I work on today” paralysis that sometimes happens when we have large gaps between our research sessions.

I just looked back on the blog and saw that my first 30 x 30 challenge was in August 2015. That one I did alone and just blogged about the experience. After that, I opened it up to everyone. So we’re looking at ten years of these challenges! In that time, we’ve averaged three or four a year. I’ve always been gratified by the participation and the fact that it’s been so helpful for people.

If you’re up for the challenge, just comment here and, if you feel like it, let us know what you’re going to be working on.