Preamble to the 30 Day Blogrimage

My good friend Pradeepan (www.pradeepan.com) and I were talking over Skype when Pradeepan challenged/commanded me to join him on a pilgrimage. He said "Hey, I'm going to jump rope and blog about it for 30 days. You come up with something to do for 30 days and blog about it with me!" Thus the challenge of the blog pilgrimage, or blogrimage, was issued.

Blogging used to be something that I did quite regularly at ORU and really enjoyed. There was a strong blogging culture there, and so it was easy to keep up. When I blogged it would not only sharpen my writing skills, but it also helped me to process something in my life, and also offered a community forum for my friends and I. I even had some of my blogs published by Relevant Magazine (thanks Rachel!) As Pradeepan and I were talking about the 80/20 principle, where 80% of inputs cause 20% of outputs, and 20% of other inputs cause 80% of outputs, I realized that blogging was something that took very little of my time and energy and was very rewarding for me. So here I am, back in the blogging community.

Here are my ideas for the blogrimage (I don't know why spell check keeps indicating "blogrimage" is a spelling error. Must be broken.) I'm going to ask someone that I don't know 1 question everyday. I will be asking all of these people that same question and blogging about their responses, so it has to be good. My criteria for the question are: it has to be a question that each person can give a different answer to, it has to be something that can be understood easily and doesn't need much follow up explanation, and it has to be something interesting and that I can learn from. Here are a few of the top questions I'm considering (many of these come from the book The 4 Hour Workweek):

-What would you do if you couldn't fail?
-What would you do if money wasn't an issue? (also considering a more specific amount, like if you had $1 billion.)
-What is the best idea you've ever had?
-If you could learn anything instantly, what is the first thing you would learn?
-If you could be the best in the world at anything, what would it be?

If you have any other suggestions for questions, or ways I could more efficiently phrase these questions please let me know! The journey begins Monday, March 15th.