Today I want to talk about doing a 14-day Challenge.  You may be asking yourself, “What the heck’s a 14-day Challenge?” 

A 14-day Challenge is a challenge where you perform a task that you’ve been “wanting” to perform, such as workout, or meditate … for 14 days in a row.

Why do the challenge?

The 14-day challenge allows you the freedom to commit to a task for 14 days (to see how it impacts your life), without the pressure of thinking you must continue the task forever.

After you’ve completed the 14-day challenge you can then evaluate how you should proceed with the task thereafter. 

As an example, if you’ve meditated for 14-days in a row, you can then look back and see what positive impacts it had on your life. 

If you liked the change, then you should continue to perform the task in some capacity; if you didn’t like the impact of the task, you don’t have to continue performing the task.

Another Example

Think you want a dog, try it for 14 days.  Think you’re ready for kids; borrow someone else’s kids for 14 days, you’ll find out if you’re ready.

Not too long ago someone gave us a dog named “Bananas.”  I warned the previous owner that we may give the dog back after 14 days depending on whether we liked the experience of having a dog. 

To make a long-story short, we ended-up giving the dog back … and we were grateful that we did the 14-day Challenge! 

If we had purchased a dog, the process of finding a new dog owner would have been a lot more complicated than returning “Bananas” to her previous owner … who knew that we might return her.

Why 14 days?

It’s two weeks … it’s enough time for you to fully experience the task, but not so much time that you can’t commit to performing the task.

What should I use the 14-day Challenge for…

Working-out, daily meditation … whatever you want to try (as long as it’s not illegal or immoral). 

Don’t think about doing the task “forever,” just commit to 14 days.  You can do anything for 14 days. 

Document Your Results

Write down your results.  You should have a journal where you document your thoughts.  Write down what you experienced during your 14-day Challenge in that journal.  If you don’t have a journal, purchase one.

[Purchase a nice leather-bound journal to document your ideas, never put million dollar ideas in a twenty-five cents notebook.  Dignify your thoughts!]

Anyway, back to the 14 day challenge!

Decide what changes you want to see in your life … then commit to doing it for 14 days; you will be grateful that you did. 

That’s all for now, be sure to start your challenge today!

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