每天尝试新事物，坚持30天你会发现……

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher Morgan Spurlock and try something new for 30 days.

几年前，我觉得自己陷入了困境，于是我决定跟随美国哲学家摩根·斯普洛克的足迹，尝试30天的新尝试。

The idea is actually pretty simple.

这个想法实际上很简单。

Think about something you've always wanted to add to your life and try it for the next 30 days, it turns out 30 days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract, a habit like watching the news from your life.

想一想您一直想增加生活的事物，并在接下来的30天内尝试一下，事实证明30天正好是添加或减少新习惯的适当时长，例如观看新闻。

There's a few things that I learned while doing these 30-day challenges. The first was instead of the months flying by forgotten, the time was much more memorable.

在进行这些为期30天的挑战时，我学到了一些东西。第一个，时间不是被遗忘的几个月，而是更难忘的时光。

This was part of a challenge I did to take a picture every day for a month, and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing that day.

这是我每天拍摄一个月的照片所面临的挑战的一部分，而且我还确切地记得那天我在哪里，在做什么。

I also noticed that as I started to do more and harder 30-day challenges, my self-confidence grew.

我还注意到，随着我开始做更多，更艰苦的30天挑战赛，我的自信心开始增强。

I went from desk dwelling computer nerd to the kind of guy who bikes to work for fun, even last year I ended up hiking up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

我从台式电脑呆子变成了喜欢骑自行车上班的人，甚至去年我还是徒步去非洲最高的山乞力马扎罗山远足。

I would never have been that adventurous before I started my 30-day challenges.

在开始30天的挑战之前，我永远不会冒险。

I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days.

我还发现，如果您真的很想要某件事情，可以在30天内做任何事情。

Have you ever wanted to write a novel? Every November tens of thousands of people try to write their own 50,000 word novel from scratch. In 30 days it turns out all you have to do is write sixteen hundred and sixty seven words a day for a month.

你曾经想写小说吗？每年11月，成千上万的人试图从头开始写自己的50,000字小说。在30天内，您要做的就是每个月每天写一千六百七十七个单词。

So I did. By the way the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words for the day. You might be sleep-deprived but you'll finish your novel.

所以我做了。顺便说一句，秘密是直到您写下当天的文字后才能入睡。您可能被剥夺了睡眠，但您会完成一部小说。

Now is my book the next great American novel? No I wrote it in a month, it's awful. But for the rest of my life if I meet John Hodgman at a TED party, I don't have to say I'm a computer scientist. No, if I want to I can say I'm a novelist.

我的书现在是下一部伟大的美国小说吗？不，我在一个月内写了它，太糟糕了。但是在我的余生中，如果我在TED派对上遇到约翰·霍奇曼，我不必说我是计算机科学家。不，如果我愿意，我可以说我是小说家。

So here's one last thing I'd like to mention I learned that when I made small sustainable changes things I could, keep doing, they were more likely to stick.

因此，我要提到的最后一件事是，我了解到，当我进行可持续的小改变时，我会继续做的事情更有可能坚持下去。

There's nothing wrong with big crazy challenges, in fact they're a ton of fun. But they're less likely to stick when I gave up sugar for 30 days. Day 31 looked like this.

疯狂的挑战无可厚非，事实上，它们充满了乐趣。但是当我放弃糖30天时，它们坚持下去的可能性较小。第31天看起来像这样。

So here's my question to you: what are you waiting for?

所以这是我的问题：您还在等什么？

I guarantee you the next 30 days are going to pass whether you like it or not. So why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for the next 30 days.

无论您是否喜欢，我都保证未来30天会过去。那么，为什么不考虑您一直想尝试的事物，然后在接下来的30天尝试一下。

Thank you.

谢谢。