Challenges

All Challenges

• Walk for 1 hour a day.

  6 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Walk around anywhere for 1 hour. Find yourself. Take pictures. Talk with friends. Just get out there! :)
• Make a list of everything you own

  8 players including...

  1 month Organization An excellent start to paring down! Grab a pen and pencil, and make your list. You can group certain things together like "socks(6)" or "guitar(+accessories).
• Create a painting a day for 1 month!

  4 players including...

  1 month Arts and Culture Paint something! anything! just paint! Get your mind creating! Force it to make great things! yay!
• 12 Weeks of Clean

  22 players including...

  3 months Home and Garden Clean your place of residence at least once a week for 3 months
• Pray Every Day

  14 players including...

  1 month Faith and Spirituality Spend 15 minutes in prayer each day
• Send Some Snail Mail

  22 players including...

  1 month Relationships Send 3 letters or cards the old-fashioned way this month.
• Watch the Sunrise 3 times

  18 players including...

  1 month Habits Get up to and watch the Sunrise three times! You will be glad you made the effort! Google your zip code and the word "sunrise" to find the time for your area.
• Call 5 Friends or Family Members to Catch Up Properly

  11 players including...

  1 month Relationships Use an actual phone to call up friends and family for a proper catch up! You have 1 month to make 5 real calls!
• Earn $500 Extra

  18 players including...

  3 months Finances It's nice to have a little extra spending money, or to make a dent in your savings goal for that trip you're planning. What can you do to earn an extra $500?
• Complete a 3-day juice cleanse this month

  12 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Juice is tasty! Take on this challenge to kick-start a healthier you!
• 52 Love Notes

  4 players including...

  12 months Relationships Give a hand-written note to your loved one every week.
• 365 Pages of Life

  54 players including...

  12 months Habits A lot can happen in a year. Take the time and write at least one page about your day.
• Wakey Wakey Eggs and Bakey

  59 players including...

  1 month Habits Get up when the alarm clock goes off, five days a week for a month.
• Writing is 1% Inspriation 99% Perspiration

  24 players including...

  12 months Academics Write 500,000 words over the course of the next year. Writing, like anything takes practice. Sometimes you have to force it out of yourself.
• Submit three journal articles for review in the next year

  10 players including...

  12 months Academics For us academics living on the "publish or perish" track in academia, let's commit to submit three full journal articles for review.
• Run or Walk 2,012 times around a 400m athletics track

  11 players including...

  12 months Health and Fitness To celebrate the London 2012 Olympics, run/walk 2012 times around a 400m athletics track. No track? Walk 805km somewhere else!
• Learn how a make a great web page

  24 players including...

  12 months Learning This challenge is to learn all the basic skills of making a web site like HTML, PHP, JS, mySQL and good design.
• Donate blood 3 times a year

  14 players including...

  12 months Health and Fitness It is suggested that if you give blood, you wait at least 16 weeks before your next donation. This equates to 3.25 times a year. Let's just call it an even 3.
• Project Literacy 52

  29 players including...

  12 months Reading Read a book every week. For 52 weeks. All books qualify, except for e-books. E-books that are available in print version also qualify.
• Post a YouTube video every week for a year

  11 players including...

  12 months Entertainment Start a personal YouTube channel and post a video to it every week. You can do sketches, vlog, review books or movies, anything!
• Complete 8 lessons of a language course this month

  37 players including...

  1 month Learning Go through 8 lessons of a self-study textbook, podcast or language-learning app. Study dialogs, grammar, vocabulary & complete the exercises.
• The Zen Transformation!

  11 players including...

  9 months Habits Do yoga or stretch 3x/week. Replace negative thinking w/ positive. Take vitamins/herbs every night at dinner. 5+ glasses of water/day. Book-7day mental diet.
• Read 50 Books in 12 Months

  63 players including...

  12 months Reading Read 50 books in the next 12 months. You may even want to post them in the comments here or at a site like Goodreads or Shelfari.
• Shed 100 Possessions

  94 players including...

  6 months Organization Lighten up. In the next 6 months, relieve yourself of 100 possessions. Sell, donate, give them away.
• Take a photo of yourself every day for a year

  77 players including...

  12 months Photography It's not to be vain, it's just an experiment... You'll be surprised how much you change over a year!
• Eat in 5 Days a week for 3 months

  13 players including...

  3 months Food and Cooking This will require 60 eating ins over 3 months
• Borrow instead of buy

  8 players including...

  6 months Being Green Next time you need something you will only use once in a while, borrow it instead of buy it. It could be a tool, kitchen item, sports equipment..anything.
• 101in365

  32 players including...

  1 month Adventure Did you know that there was a 101 goal minimum before you could lock your list?! Let's give a nod to the old days and each come up with 101 goals for 2012!
• Barefoot Run

  7 players including...

  12 months Health and Fitness Barefoot run at least once a week for an entire year.
• Publish an iOS app to the App Store

  18 players including...

  12 months Crafts and Hobbies Submit your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch app to the Apple App Store and get it approved!
• Work out once a week, every week for 3 months

  36 players including...

  3 months Health and Fitness While I'd love to join the 3 workouts a week group, I KNOW I'll slip. So let's hear it for short, achievable goals - that lead to bigger things!
• Do a mini workout 6 times a week

  26 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Do some consistent (possibly small) workout routine at least 6 times a week for an entire month!
• Register as a Bone Marrow Donor

  13 players including...

  1 month Giving and Volunteering It's simple: just order a swab kit, rub the swab on your cheek, send it in, and maybe save someone's life one day.
• Carpool

  3 players including...

  1 month Being Green Carpool with your friends/colleagues to school/office/party. 4 car poolers 2 times to complete.
• Black and white and read all over

  7 players including...

  1 month Entertainment Finish every single clue on the crossword 10 times this month!
• Lose 10 Pounds in 3 Months

  70 players including...

  3 months Health and Fitness Lose 10 pounds by the end of this 3-month Challenge.
• A Year of Meatless Mondays

  33 players including...

  12 months Food and Cooking Participate in Meatless Monday every week for a year.
• Smoke-Free 365

  15 players including...

  12 months Health and Fitness An entire year without those foul, deadly, stinky, expensive, but oh-so-good cigarettes.
• Update your blog twice a week

  78 players including...

  1 month Writing Post new blog updates twice a week for a month.
• 3 Workouts a Week

  89 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Do three workouts per week this month.
• Photo 365

  43 players including...

  12 months Crafts and Hobbies Take a photo (including post processing and publishing to a blog/website) every day of the year.
• Write a Novel in a month!

  10 players including...

  1 month Writing If you've always wanted to write a novel, now's your chance! It's like NaNoWriMo, but any time!
• The Triple Quintuple

  13 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Run 5 days in a row. Three times. This month. You need less rest days.
• Meditate 15 minutes or more 15 times

  54 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Within 30 days, meditate (any method) 15 times for at least 15 minutes.
• Early Bird (Getting the Worm)

  22 players including...

  1 month Habits Be the first in to the office 5 times this month! Or at least, first on your team...
• Cook a meal at least once per month

  46 players including...

  3 months Food and Cooking It's so easy to eat out or skip a meal altogether. Let's try to cook more!
• Bike 50 miles

  8 players including...

  1 month Health and Fitness Ride your bike for 50 miles in one month.
• Read at least 3 books in 3 months

  127 players including...

  3 months Entertainment That's only a book each month! It seems so simple, yet it's strangely difficult to remember to do!