As I write this, I’ve just passed the quarter way mark on my latest Quest: 100 places, 300 pages. So fun. I am excited to do 75 more.

BUT FIRST…

I have a question for you.

✨This is a treasure brought back by one of my Questful participants. What do you think it might be?✨

Take a guess, and I’ll reveal all below.

100 places, 300 pages is my 4^th Quest. It’ll take me just over 2 years to complete. And it is 100 times more fun than the dry-old-stick-beat-y way that I used to set goals and try to improve myself.

Here are just a few of the highlights and learnings so far:

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🖊️1. It takes me a leisurely 30 minutes to write my 3 pages (unless I’m sat on a bench, in an area that is high-density-dogs. Always stop what you’re doing to love a dog!) This has been a wonderful balance of highly doable and rewarding.

🖊️2. Four of my Quests took place in my own home, and were still super fun and interesting to do. It was a whole new way of seeing things right under my nose.

🖊️3. I LOVE the construct of describing what I can sense (see, hear, smell) for 2 pages. Then switching it up for the final page to stretch out with a different point of view.

🖊️4. Experimenting with point-of-view in this way is a rich experiment. For example, I’ve done it through the eyes of: a pigeon, a potential house buyer, a traffic warden, and someone who knows they only have 2 days left to live.

🖊️5. It’s such a good excuse to have a slightly weird adventure—I did one sat in an Ikea showroom.

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🖊️6. If you’re feeling like, huh, not sure I understand this point-of-view thing…here’s an example from said Ikea fake room.

1^st line from the 2-page description:This room is a concoction of greens.

1^st line from the point-of-view switch: She couldn’t marry a man who wanted a living room like this—sitting in the wingback chair while she sat on the sofa, with only pillows for friends.

Description sensed by me➔ place as described by a particular person

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🖊️7. I have never once felt lonely doing a Quest. I feel an intense connection to my surroundings, and it’s really fun.

🖊️8. There’s also nothing to stop you adventuring with someone else. As described here, I invited my husband to come along for my Amazon warehouse visit.

❗🧐❗9. Maybe don’t write your 3 pages in red pen. 3 pages of red scrawl is a vibe, and pretty hard to read!

🖊️10. It continues to shock me how much of a difference this small amount of Quest time makes: to how alive I feel, and how I’m experiencing the world.

Quests are literally the best.

Right, back to that sound!

That sound is a wave crashing, in reverse.

It’s part of a very fun songwriting Quest, for one of my Questful participants. I’ve been suggesting a range of prompts, and some have been linked to places—e.g. the beach, and the mall.

I love that he shared this treasure with us. I also asked him what has surprised him most about doing a Quest.

‘It challenges the way that I normally think about doing goals, and the process of achieving a goal. It keeps pulling me back to finding a way to enjoy it, which is not my normal default.’

Yaaaaaass!

Ditto.

And this is absolutely at the heart of a Questful approach.

My prompt to you this month is this question:

‘What’s one thing you’d love to explore, just because…’

Just because you’re curious, or it might be fun, or you’ve wondered about it. Just because…

What if it made your day a little more interesting? Or helped you feel a little more alive.

What if this really matters?

It does.

And I say this as a hyper-responsible person, with plenty of work and home life considerations. (2 of my place Quests were done on hospital wards, waiting for loved ones. They made that time a little more Questful.)

‘What’s one thing you’d love to explore, just because…’

Any questions about anything Questful, you can find me right here…

Until next time,

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