Hey good idea, ill probably drop out of the bootcamp too and join you too!
At the moment Im finding it hard to do but I thought of a good idea:
Why not just say hi to people without even looking at them for a while, this is easy! It has a lesser effect but it still has a significant one. Im thinking of just doing that then it should be easily enough to rise the bar later in the day and do it properly...so kind of using it as a warm up.
If you wanna do it go ahead
Anyways..yesterday I did 2 hi's (out of 2 possible ones..late in the evening). Now its in the morning again and I just came back from doing BCish stuff for like 45 mins and I greeted 4 people - out of around 40 possible ones! and actually I feel like I did better than on most other days lately....lol...the thing is that, it really depends WHERE I'm going. If I'm at a park where hardly nobody is around and I walk towards somebody and nobody else is in sight, it feels a lot more natural to greet them. The same thing goes for "good mornings/evenings". In german you can only say "morning/evening" which I have less difficulty with getting out than "Hello"'s...on the one hand because u have a bit more of a "reason" to greet somebody (even if its just made up in your head) plus it feels easier to pronounce to me...
But I think I just realized, that one of the most important things is, if you're going out for a BC session, you shouldn't be in a rush and only have one hour or so...You should plan for a couple of hours (to consider it a real BC session), because at least in my case, the more ppl I try to greet, but end up not greeting, the more motivated/used to it I get. I kinda get into that rhythm. But of course it's also a good idea to go outside and just walk around in your neighborhood and try to greet people.
Anyways, I think to me week 1 ..greeting people is as important as week 2..doing convos, I feel like both will be an equal hard step to me. So I'll be serious about the greeting part, too (though I dont wanna keep doing this forever because after a couple of weeks it starts to get boring...) and when I can do 10 out of 10 NEAT Hi's to HBs Ill know it's time to move on.
Actually I think I'll put around 3 hours into this stuff until the end of next week - and not go out on this weekend, because if I do I always end up not doing anything (of value) on the weekend due to hangover moods and everything....So I hope I'll have this greeting stuff down by next sunday and be able to move on! (though, I'm not quite sure if Ill be satisfied by then).
OH AND...try your idea, but one thing that I realized is that I HAVE to look at people. That way it's actually easier for me to pull it off. If they give me EC its fairly easy, but even when I walk at them confidently looking at them (not staring just looking..) without getting any EC it feels a lot less natural to greet them. I thought it might be a good idea to just look into another direction pretending im not really seeing them and then when Im right in front of them saying hi...but it works a lot better if I looked at them before and say the "hi" when I'm still a few steps in front of them and not already next to them...