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A
Good Ole Challenge
How often do you feel you
challenge yourself on a daily basis? Most will say they do often, others will
say not at all, which is totally fine don’t hurt yourself over it. So, for
those of you who are reading or participating in my blog today, I hope that you
are ready, because I am calling you out on this today (no hard feelings I love
you all)!
I live in a generation where
our era is so sucked into our phones or any other devices. When we are on these
devices, what is the main thing that people around the 18-23 range like to do? Well,
it’s quite simple everybody loves to be on their social media, because they are
so sucked and drawn into what others have going on, instead of what they have
going for themselves. I cannot personally say or agree that I am one of those
people, because my phone percentage usage is lower than most people in my age
range for a whole week compared to them for a whole day.
My point is, we talked about
challenging ourselves throughout this entire unit, and we also gave a speech
that everybody did phenomenal on! I was very impressed by the challenges that people
had to take on, and I remember somebody giving up their phone for the whole Spring
Break (God Bless you because I couldn’t and would never trust somebody that
much). For me personally, I did the “Get Bored” challenge that was presented by
Manoush Zomorodi, and mines was quite simple and complex.
For my challenge, all I had
to do was find something to think about, which was very easy for me to do, and
set aside 30 minutes free from distraction. This challenge was supposed to be
the most challenging one, but then again it really depends on the person and
how mentally weak that person is when it comes to needing their phone for reassurance.
I will not describe what I thought about for those 30 minutes, because honestly
it was quite personal, so I rather not share, but I felt better later the day
after this challenge.
Why did I choose to do
this challenge you ask? Well considering that I was going through some stuff involving
school, I felt this was a perfect opportunity to get a long 30 minutes of no
distractions and long yoga to better my inner thoughts and the inner body. I did
have to restart this challenge due to calls coming from my family, which I needed
to answer due to critical times, but I was ok with that.
My reasoning for talking
about this is because I want to challenge you, the reader, to this same exact
challenge. I am not a huge fan of the other challenges, and that is me saying
that only because I didn’t do any of them 😊.
But seriously, I think if you are up for it that you should try it out and give
it a shot.
To conclude, I talked about
the 30-minute challenge that I had to face and broke it down and analyzed the best
way to be able to do this challenge. My overall long-term goal was to try to make
you, as the reader, expand out of your comfort zone and really try something
that you may not be familiar with, which is okay because nobody is judging you,
but instead helping you experiment.
Citations:
Oliver, Erik. “Bored and Brilliant a Few Weeks Later.” Medium, 28 Sept. 2017, medium.com/@elo_sf/bored-and-brilliant-a-few-weeks-later-dd2333ad418a.
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