Early Morning Challenge: Transforming Habits with a Friend

I forgot to update, but we ended the challenge with Shan earning 250 from Edjay and me—so Shan got back what he paid last month. We officially wrapped up the challenge for the year, which ended in chaos because December turned out so differently than I had expected. Honestly, I completely ruined my life, and it’s been getting worse up to today.

That said, the challenge was fun, but it wasn’t sustainable given our current situation. Shan decided to move forward with this year’s challenge under extreme rules, including strict eating limitations, drinking 2 liters of water daily, studying for 2 hours, and other commitments.

As for me, I’m leaning toward a long-term plan: becoming rich and saving a million pesos by 2030. My reason is simple—I want to focus on a bigger picture, not just a challenge that’s relevant for a single year. I hope this new approach will bring better outcomes and help me work toward something truly great!

I payed Shan 120 pesos and Edjay 40 pesos. A massive earnings for Shan!

I officially ruined myself for this fucking pep project. But fuck im happy with my work haha. That the zone of coding from 4pm to 1am.

I ruined my routine by sleeping in the afternoon and then sleep late at 1am!

Shan payed us all 15 pesos each

Shan failed this month!

IT'S A TIE

Shan payed me 40 pesos.

Edjay payed me 50 pesos.

Today marks the end of the first month of our challenge and the Monthly Penalty Counter.

Income is on its way...

back to challenge for everyone for because all of us sent pictures again

Edjay and me exempted because we are one of the representative of the school for the AI hackathon, i told shan that we will pause the challenge at the meanttime but he insisted telling me he will keep doing it.

Edjay got sick for two days and is exempted. Now he is back.

Shan failed to send and take his selfie on time for two straight days. He initially found the task boring, but now his consistency is being challenged.

First day! Everyone woke up early and shared proof in our group chat. Yesterday, before I went to sleep, I created a calendar tracker. You can click the button above to access it.

Today, a new challenger joined the group. Shan, our class president and an obvious early bird among us, was interested and signed the commitment contract. This will be fun and exciting. See you at the end of 2024!

I have made a contract for the stricter implementation of the challenge starting tomorrow, including a daily tracker to record any missed days. I'm ready, with a bit of discipline, to wake up at 5 AM. It's time to test our persistence over the next five months. This challenge will either help us build a good habit or just become another task.

Today I woke up almost at 5 AM, earlier than the alarm clock. I tend to become forgetful of sending the photos once I start sitting in front of the computer, but getting up at 5 is still a little bit weird for me because I have this thought that I have nothing to do early in the morning. But thinking right now, I could do what I might do later tonight tomorrow morning.

It's just that I need to maintain the time at 9, stop using the computer, read books until 10, and sleep. Wake up, take a photo, do push-ups as long as possible, oil my hair, take a shower, and do the work.

Also, I forget sending photos to Messenger as I try to avoid my phone, but I'll figure this thing out along the way.

Edjay failed to send for two days.

I'm back on track.

Today we slept around near 2AM working on our Pitch Deck for Manila Hackathon in Ateneo, it was the opposite of yesterday. Failed, woke up almost 10 PM. Gotta need to do it again today.

On the first day, we successfully executed the challenge. After I woke up, I took a selfie, biked for more than 30 minutes back and forth from home, oiled my hair with my homemade coconut oil, took a shower, and almost forgot to send the selfie! Haha