Something in the effort

As much as challenge can seem distant it is interesting to me how often it's easily found. But what value in it? And on Sunday started thinking to myself, could I embed a challenge which was answered for me with the effort?

Here is the result:

Twitter allows a learning experiment. For fun, imagine someone has given you the task of writing a perfect 140 character, grammatical tweet.

— James Harris (@jstevh) February 7, 2016

And I started typing that tweet wondering if I could do it, with the tweet itself and succeeded.

I know it is perfect 140 characters as Twitter tells you as you're typing it, but guess helps to show for others so went to a program to get a count:

Which is the kind of quick mental exercise that can be a challenge for those who are on Twitter who find it of interest. But why bother? I wonder that often with things.

And I think there is something in the effort as it has to tell you something about yourself. And maybe others as I like to think it says something about me. How hard is it to do?

Not sure. But does that matter really?

But what if I had failed? Well then, you wouldn't see this blog post now would you? Because if I had failed, I wouldn't have done it.

So as Monday progresses and the remaining days of the week, like it or not, challenges will appear. And what effort will I bring? I'd like to think I'll do my best.


James Harris