Photo A Day Challenge

I need to be challenged or else I get complacent.  I need a goal to work towards or else I get lazy.  I make up excuses way to easily.  The big one right now is photography.  I'm such a head case when it comes to photography!  I love it but it's hard.  And when things get hard I tend to run away, ignore, or give up.  I don't want to be like this, especially towards photography.  I want to get better and learn more but it's so easy to tell myself it's too hard.  And then I find myself going weeks without even picking up my camera.  WHAT?!?!  I know, I'm such a head case.

In order to combat this predicament I'm in, I have committed myself to a 30-day photo-a-day challenge.  I came across it earlier in the year and have decided I'm finally going to do it!  It will force me to get my camera out everyday and think somewhat creatively.  But here's my stipulations: I'm not going to clean my house before I take the picture.  I'm not going to put my kids in matching clothing and fix their hair super cute before I take the picture.  This challenge is not to stress me out, but to get me motivated.  This will show you small glimpses of our real...everyday life...just as you would see it if you spontaneously dropped in on me.

Here goes:

Day 1: your reflection

Day 2: someone who makes you happy

Day 3: color

Day 4: mail

Day 5: tiny

Day 6: lunch

Day 7: shadow

Day 8: inside your wallet

Day 9: cold

Day 10: how you feel today

Day 11: stairs

Day 12: sunset

Day 13: hair

Day 14: where you ate breakfast

Day 15: something you don't like

Day 16: orange

Day 17: something you drew

Day 18: bottle

Day 19: the last thing you bought

Day 20: 1pm

Day 21: vegetable

Day 22: something you're grateful for

Day 23: something that makes you sad

Day 24: flower

Day 25: circle

Day 26: looking down

Day 27: somewhere you went

UPDATE:
I started this post/project a lot longer than 30 days ago and as you can see I only made it to day 27 but I just lost steam.  I started out gung-ho but life got in the way and I didn't do it everyday and then I just felt like I had this project looming over me and I decided enough was enough and I'm calling it good.  I feel that the challenge served it's purpose though and for that I'm grateful.  It got me out of my funk I was in and I really had fun with it.  So there you have it!  Hope you enjoy.