Good luck on your new journey. I'm going for my yeard too and with mine I flushed the 24 hour rule down the toilet and turned it into a 7 day rule. Helped me a lot when I got the idea of trimming.

In 1567, Hans Steininger, the burgomaster of Braunau (then Bavaria, now Austria), died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard. The beard, which was 4.5 feet (1.4 m) long at the time, was usually kept rolled up in a leather pouch. --source (Beard Responsibly, my friends)