“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
– Bernie S. Siegel

I’ve always been a fan of a challenge and my family and wife will attest to the fact that I can be highly competitive. So needless to say on that day I sat with Kendra (see previous post) when she mentioned any kind of challenge I knew I would try and rise to it!

The idea behind this was that Kendra and I would blog every single week starting from… well, now actually! This is my (official) first blog in the 2020 series and it’s going out *hastily checks the date* on the 29th November 2019. “Why now?” I hear you ask, well it’s a great question. Kendra and I agree that having this challenge as somewhat of a “New Years Resolution” just gives us an opportunity to fail, like many resolutions do. There is no time like the present and we very much intend to live by that! So from now until 29th November 2020 I will (hopefully) be blogging… Every. Single. Week.

Utter madness, I know!!! But exciting nonetheless, and I can’t wait.

The rules are very simple:
1) Blog every week
2) You can blog about whatever you like, and
3) If you miss a week £10 (or $10 for Kendra) goes into a pot that at the end of the year gets donated to a charity of your choice.

I’m going to go ahead and supplement the 3rd rule with the fact that I intend to meet this challenge, and as that really only helps me, I will be donating a MINIMUM of £120 (£10 for each month) so that whatever the outcome I am still able to contribute to a great cause.

The charity that I have chosen is Mind, a fantastic UK based mental health charity which provides advice, support and information to help you through whatever mental health issues you may be facing. It is a charity very close to my own heart, not least because it’s a subject that affects us all but because Mind themselves have helped many people; not just in general but those close to me, and myself directly. They helped me to do the very thing I found impossible at one time, talk about it, and I will be forever grateful for that.

With this all in mind I look forward to steaming ahead into 2020 and (hopefully) filling this page with exciting and informative posts – just a sneak peak at what I have lined up, you can expect posts on:

• Living a plant based lifestyle
• DevOps
• Data Masking
• Azure
• PowerShell
• Travel and Culture
• My feeble attempts at learning Romanian
• and much much more…

So. Let’s go.