Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenges
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone: A Week Without Television.
Recently it was National Turn Off Your Television Week and I decided to subject my family to this challenge. No television and no movies. Oh boy, what have I done? Save us from ourselves! Day One: I have to literally unplug …
Technology Free Weekend? We DARE You!
There have been many, many times over the past year when I’ve gathered up my resolve and decided to cut down on my non-work Internet time. It’s not like there aren’t a million other, more productive things I could be …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge: Stop Procrastinating!
I’m great at procrastinating. If one could make a living out of this, I would be a very wealthy woman. I didn’t used to be this way, not at all. But then life happened. Kids, work, house, school. Remember when …
Wake Up And Smell The Decaf: GOYCZ Challenge “A Week Without Caffeine”
This week’s Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge (GOYCZ): No Caffeine! I was always one of those people who said, “Caffeine doesn’t affect me.” When friends would decline a caffeinated beverage after 4pm, I would boast, “I could drink …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge: No Baggies, Water Bottles or Paper Towels, Oh My!
I’m not a professional environmentalist, nor do I play one on TV. But I do like to think of myself as (semi) eco-conscious. So when I simultaneously ran out of paper towels and bottled water this week, I knew which …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge: Budgeting With Cash. A Week Without Cards.
I’d been thinking about making one of my upcoming challenges about money and weekly budgeting by using cash only (no debit or credit cards allowed), but I was concerned that I wasn’t quite *ready* for that particular feat. Almost immediately …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone (GOYCZ) Challenge: No Meat, Please. I’m A Vegetarian.
I come from a long lineage of non-vegetarians. No one in my family is a vegetarian, nor are any of my friends. I don’t think I’d even met a vegetarian until college. But with all the recent in-your-face documentaries about …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge: Exercise For 7 Straight Days!
I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who say, “I feel horrible when I don’t go to the gym,” but I’m just not. Physical activity was not a big part of my upbringing. Bonding for my family was …
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge: Just Say No
I don’t say “no” a lot. I’m just not good at it. I want to make people happy. I want people to know that they can count on me. More importantly, I want to avoid confrontation at all costs, which …
New Article Series: Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge
I’m challenging myself. No, not an exercise challenge (not this month anyways). It’s a “Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone Challenge” (GOYCZ). Each week, I’m going to come up with something that makes me uncomfortable and raises some “challenges”, and …
