Win a $25 Gift Certificate
Posted in Contests and Memes on September 5th, 2007 by Erin DietrichJenny and I have been quite impressed with the quality of development blogs from Priscilla Palmer’s list. To grow this community we are inviting you, and anyone else interested, to enter a little contest. Of course every contest must have a prize, so we are offering a $25 Amazon gift certificate to the winner.
And what you are all waiting for, the question is…
How big of a role do habits play in your daily life? Do your habits typically form intentionally or unconsciously? What approaches have you found successful in shaping them?
We know you are all free thinkers, so we have kept the guidelines to a raw minimum. The only thing we ask is that you mention “Jenny and Erin” and “quest for understanding.” Easy enough, right? Please send us your entry at jenny-and-erin@jenny-and-erin.com by September 21, 2007. We will post a list of all of the entries with links and announce the winner, decided by us and maybe our moms if there is a tie, on October 1, 2007.
You do not need a blog to play. Just email me your article and we will find a way to publish it.
Happy blogging!
This contest is now closed. To read the entries to this challenge visit:
Habits Contest Entries - Round 1
Habits Contest Entries - Round 2
Habits Contest Entries - Round 3
Winner of the Habits Contest
September 5th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Erin, Are we to write a blog post and link to you or just send you a piece of information.? I’m looking forward to winning!
This is what What I did with my winnings!from the last on-line contest I entered!
September 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
MichelleVan, either way is fine. If you want to use the content on your blog, go for it, and just link it to us. Otherwise, if it doesn’t match your content, feel free to just send it to us.
September 5th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Thanks for the link. I will be writing a post for your contest in the next week.
September 5th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Erin, Thanks for the invite. Interestingly enough I am in full flow of a process to consciously watch & identify my habits and change those that do not serve me.
Good timing. This is just the time for me to post about this as it fits with my new blog The Neural Recon Report, which I hope will become an interesting read on this very subject.
Rob
September 5th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I’m game to play too Erin,
It’s a great question. I’ll be back soon with my post.
Cheers!
September 5th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Looking forward to your post Priscilla!
Rob,
You new blog sounds very interesting. Sounds like this is a subject you know a bit about…
Great Lorraine! Can’t wait to see what you write.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Thank you for the invitation. Count me in.
September 5th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
David, looking forward to hearing what you have to say!
September 5th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Count me in as well. Great topic.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Hi Erin,
Thanks for the invite, this is very interesting, as I’m on the process of starting a treat to myself for what I’d call it project 30, to start and form a new positive habit within 30 days!
Give me some time to experience and refresh it before I write anything about it.
Thanks,
Joanne
September 6th, 2007 at 1:46 am
If it were just a bit earlier, I would write one today, considering my writing output today (3 articles on my website, and one guest post submitted). I may very well write it tomorrow.
You’re still my favorite blog.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:53 am
Thank You for the delicious invitation.
Count The Cafe in!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Jenny and Erin,
Thank you for tagging my blog for this contest. I love contests!
Just the other day, I was telling a friend of mine that I wished someone would give me an Amazon Gift Certificate. Synchronicity rocks!!!
Anyhow, I am writing a post for my blog about habits in relation to Lucid Dreaming.
Thanks Again!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:56 am
Thanks for your great idea and for the invitation! Definitely, count me in. I’ll email you when my post is up.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:33 am
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September 6th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Yeah! Looking forward to reading all these posts.
Joanne: Project 30 sounds promising, hope for some updates.
Jason: You really are incredible, you know that right?? From your mind to a post in mere minutes and they all are so great. Plus, you are so good with the questions - keeping me on my very tippy-toes. Very, very jealous am I…grrr!
Thanks for the compliments and for submitting such a terrific guest post.
Lodewijkvdb, Jane, Gleb: we’ll be watching for your post.
Bill: I’ll be back to your site to read more about lucid dreaming - interesting. What a quick turnaround!
September 6th, 2007 at 9:10 am
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September 6th, 2007 at 9:56 am
I struggle with inconsistency. Life tends to get in the way. This will be a good topic to discuss and I will be writing about it next week. Thanks for the invite.
Tom (TRCoach)
September 6th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Hi Jenny and Erin, thanks for the invitation to your contest! I will see if I can put something together…
All the best,
John
September 6th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
It seems my software may not be sending trackbacks properly, as I didn’t see it appear. In any case, just to make sure, here is my response to this challenge (and it isn’t about the $25, you just happened to give me enough inspiration for an article).
The Subconscious Mind In Control (AKA Habits)
PS - My article is very strongly related to my previous articles on filters/patterns:
Learn To See Your Own Rose-Colored Glasses
September 6th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
This has been so fun to watch the entries start to come in. I am so happy to see some new visitors and some old friends. I hope you all benefit as well from the traffic from this contest. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Thanks for giving your website readers the impetus for new kinds of self-reflection. Some people may feel it would take a miracle for them to change certain habits. Writing about them is a way to acknowledge they exist and is a great way to promote miracle-minded thinking.
September 7th, 2007 at 9:16 am
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September 7th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Fantastic idea. I am glad to have been asked to participate and will be posting/submitting my article soon. Cheers! , Modern-Worker.com
September 7th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hopefully anyone who feels they need a miracle will visit my site, A Miracle A Day… just click on my name!
Just kidding, in that kind of mood this morning. Though if you want to visit my site, do feel free.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Hi!
Thank you for inviting me to play - I just posted an article titled “Habit management?” at http://www.halinagold.net/blog/?p=119
Many greetings -
September 7th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Thanks for the invite. I’ll publish my weekly post Sunday. In the meantime a former post, A Habit Is Just a Habit, discusses my view of the subject.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Sounds like a very worthy topic! I’ll make a note to myself to write about that. October 1 is dangerously close to my birthday! What a great present that would be.
Nice to discover your blog!
September 8th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Jason,
Seriously there is some good stuff there and it is well worth checking out.
I visited! Do I count??
Halina,
What a nice article, it certainly rang true with my experiences.
Jean & Bob,
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Thanks for visiting and commenting!
September 9th, 2007 at 1:18 am
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September 10th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Hi Erin and Jenny,
I just submitted my article on Habits to post on my blog Sept 12 with a link back to your site. Comments are welcome!!!
Cheers,
Lorraine
September 10th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I have posted on my blog my entry.
http://laurawilliamsmusings.blogspot.com/2007/09/old-habits-are-hard-to-break.html
and I posted about the contest in another post as well.
http://laurawilliamsmusings.blogspot.com/2007/09/monday-edition-of-contests-galore_10.html
September 11th, 2007 at 3:17 am
This looks like a fun contest and a good way to build some link-love. I’m on it. BTW I have written a post about one of the myths about changing habits here: http://hdbizblog.com/blog/2007/06/28/can-you-change-your-habits-in-21-days/
September 11th, 2007 at 4:10 am
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September 11th, 2007 at 4:22 am
Lorraine,
You will definitely see me there! Thanks for playing
September 11th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Laura,
Nice post. Thanks for also including the contest info on you site. We appreciate it!
Jason,
Great, looking forward to seeing what you come up with. I’m heading over to check out your post on the myths about changing habits right now. WAIT A MINUTE! I just read your post on myths - that is crazy! Nice job. I also feel a little sheepish right now at believing without questioning! Thanks for that reminder!
September 11th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Thanks, Jenny… I always love to hear that someone else finds what I write about interesting. I hate when I feel like I’m writing into the void
September 11th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I’m all linked up and entered here:
http://blondereviews.blogspot.com/2007/09/contests-around-blogosphere.html
Thanks so much!
September 11th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Wow! I didn’t realize that bloggers are the one sub-sect of the population that doesn’t know the meaning of procrastination! Thanks everyone. I am much looking forward to reading more entries as they roll in.
September 12th, 2007 at 12:05 am
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September 12th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Okay, I’m submitting my entry! Here it is:
http://evolvingblueprint.blogspot.com/2007/09/habits-shape-who-we-are.html
Thanks for such a great topic!
September 12th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
My post is now Officially Live!
http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog/2007/09/12/personal-development-and-habits/
Cheers,
Lorraine
September 12th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
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September 12th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
While I don’t even use the word habit in the post, what I am describing here accurately describes my process to changing my habits.
http://www.johnisfit.com/2007/09/12/i-am-a-boiled-frog/
September 13th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Hi! What a bunch of great posts! Just wanted to let you know that I am visiting each one of you (as I am truly interested in the subject of habits and what you have to say) but am noticing that I have somehow become “spam” a large portion of the time when I comment
If you do not hear from either Erin or I, check your spam as you just might find me sitting there sadly…
September 13th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Hi Jenny,
I”m glad you said something about coming up as spam. I automatically delete my folder so I hope you didn’t get caught in mine!
September 13th, 2007 at 7:55 am
Hey Lorraine,
Thanks for catching me before deleting! I replied to your reply and think I’m back in the spam box.
Mark,
I’m spam again at your site also…
Does anyone know what I’ve done or how I can fix this??
September 13th, 2007 at 8:02 am
Jenny,
I have the Akismet plugin turned on, and I check it once every few days. That’s where I found you. But I marked it as “Not Spam! NEVER again treat Jenny as SPAM!!! EVER!!!!”
So, since Akismet is a learning plugin, it should let you through later on.
September 13th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Awwww, thank you Bill!!
September 13th, 2007 at 8:14 am
de rien, ma femme cherie
September 13th, 2007 at 8:16 am
Jenny, you are getting the red carpet treatment! As for me, I’m starting to get comfortable in the trash….
(oops, Bill, you’ll never guess where I just found your comment…)
September 13th, 2007 at 9:05 am
I was going to say the same thing… Akismet decided that you were spam, probably something to do with this contest, since that’s when it started happening. If you left comments on a lot of people’s blogs in a really short time (challenging them to write for it), that could have been the trigger.
Anyway, as Bill said, as more and more people mark you as “Not spam”, you should get back out of their dog house.
September 13th, 2007 at 11:09 am
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September 13th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
You showed up as spam on my site, too, but the mistake was easy to catch. And Akismet is willing to learn.
September 13th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Thanks you guys for checking. By the way - sorry for the invites in your comments - we’re learning…
Next time, personal invitations delivered directly not in the comments as that was one of the common courtesy comments (you’re right Mark) that rang true in this great post on meme’s. Besides the courtesy issue at this point I just got caught by Akismet on our own site! Yikes.
September 13th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Hehe Akismet the inadvertent courtesy police…
And as with most things related to courtesy, it’s likely many people wouldn’t mind that sort of comment at all, particularly for an invitation such as this. But I doubt I’m alone in preferring the even more personal touch of email.
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September 17th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Aaron, Priscilla, Lodewijk and David,
I’m impressed!! Some great posts. Thank you so very much for entering our contest. Your writing definitely adds much to my thinking.
I will be back to check your sites out more carefully as there’s a lot to like.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
A big thank you to everyone who entered the contest. On top of being great fun, it was very interesting to see everyone’s perspective on habits. I’ve definately taken away a new perspective. To see the winner of the contest visit Winner of the Habits Contest.