50 Days of the #100DaysOfCode challenge
Tags: 100daysofcode, javascript, challenge, learning
Published: 2019-02-17 16:06:27

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title: 50 Days of the #100DaysOfCode challenge
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description: My thoughts after #100DaysOfCode challenge
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# 50 Days Of The #100DaysOfCode challenge

![image](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/j96f49mu5bbjik8sfrv8.png)

I'm in the **halfway point** of the challenge today! At this point I'm **definitely happy** of taking part on it.
It's being a funny and productive journey so far. I'm learning a lot of new things, meeting a lot of great people and working on myself.

I have to say that taking part in the challenge it's part of last year **purpose to work on myself**. The challenge is not the only inputs I have to improve.

On January, I've set [My achievable goals for 2019](http://blog.ibanyez.info/blogs/about-me/20190102-my-achievable-goals-for-2019/). Thanks to the challenge, We're in mid February and I'm almost at the **50% of reaching these goals**.

Let's see my achievements so far!

**Personal improvements**

* I've got consistency in applying some time a day to a defined goal. I used to learn, to write, and to work on side projects. I realized that this **consistency is helping me** in other areas of my life, removing some background laziness. It's something like going to gym for a while everyday.
* Thanks to consistency (and working on myself as well), I'm starting to improve the way I appreciate other activities. I'm becoming better **enjoying my family time**, focusing on what I'm doing on every moment. Far from the point where I'd like to be, but **improving!**  
![undraw_fatherhood_7i19.png](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/0ty2ajew326w5fyx012s.png)

* I've started to enjoy dedicating some time to not productive activities **without regretting myself**. Just enjoying it!


**Projects and coding related**

* Discovered and start to being involved in a **great community out there**. It's amazing how many people exists willing to help others and with so many projects and awesome ideas.
* For the first time ever I started to work on **open source projects**. I've opened a few pull requests, accepted and merged. Learnt a lot on how these communities get organized and how `git` tools work on this environments.
* I've been involved in **starting two projects for fun** with some people around the world. It's funny to discover how to organize communities with so many time zones.
![undraw_group_chat_v059.png](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/bx9da4ln4xjwtjyeb7yx.png)

* I'm beating my fear to share my work. I start to feel good sharing my work, writing tutorials. I'm overcoming my impostor syndrome _bit by bit_ ;)
* I've posted 6 of 10 of the articles I've proposed for this year.
* I've published Part #1 and part #2 of the tutorial [Create Your Own Framework In Less Than 350 Lines Of Code](http://blog.ibanyez.info/blogs/coding/20190126-create-your-own-framework/). I'm in the halfway point of it!



My assessment of taking part in the challenge at this point is therefore **excellent**. I **highly recommend** this challenge to almost everyone who needs some willpower and encouragement to start doing those things she/he never started or ended.

I'll get the second part of the challenge totally encouraged and excited to accomplish a lot more things!

This post was published early today [on my blog](http://blog.ibanyez.info/blogs/about-me/20190217-what-i-achieved-after-50-days-taking-part-in-the-100daysofco/)