Amanda Kingsmith

yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.

blogging challenge

Day 2: Tales of Taiwan

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When I left for Asia a little over a year ago, I set a goal to blog once a month, providing a travel update about life as a “digital nomad”. I was successful for 7/8 months. So, before I jump into other life musings, I feel it’s my duty to share about my time in Taiwan way back in May of this year.

Ryan and I flew to Taipei, Taiwan from Tokyo, Japan. We left Japan on a complete and total high. I had expected to like Japan, but not to fall so completely in love with it. Do you know that feeling when you arrive in a new city or country and you feel totally at home right away? That’s how I felt in Japan. It just felt right being there. There are few places in the world that have given me that feeling, so 3 weeks certainly didn’t feel like long enough to spend there.

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Day 1: 30 Day Blogging Challenge

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I’ve been working as an advisor with Praxis for 1.5 years now, and one of the modules that all the participants complete is a writing module. During this module, the major task they complete is 30 days of blogging.

After 1.5 years of advising participants on this writing module, I figured it was time to do it myself. The last time I wrote every single day for 30 days was when I participated in NaNoWriMo back in 2014 (I completed the 50,000 word novel but never actually published it).

Because I’ve written every day for 30 days before, I know 2 things: first is that I can do it, and second is that it will be hard. Not only is writing every day a time commitment, but it’s an exercise that tests you mentally. It’s on the busiest days and the latest nights when you want so desperately to just go to bed and call it quits that you have to make the conscious choice to go against the challenge you set for yourself. And it’s those times when you know that it is only yourself that you will be letting down if you don’t write. There is almost nothing worse than disappointing yourself.

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