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Making Sitting Less a Habit: Challenge 2
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Making Sitting Less a Habit (Part 1) Second Challenge: Choose Your Sit Less Action With a good foundation now in place, our next 3 challenges will focus on the 3 essential elements for making sitting less a lifestyle change. Today's challenge is centered on the first element: 1. Find…
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Schedule for October Challenges
We now have an email reminder system in place. If you'd like to get an email when a new weekly challenge is posted, just email me at: challengeaday2@gmail.com and I'll add you to the list. Here's what's cooking for our October weekly challenges: Oct 1 - Oct 8: Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Making Sitting Less a…
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Making Sitting Less a Habit: Challenge 3
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Making Sitting Less a Habit (Part 2) Third Challenge: Make Your Day Harder My goal in this Sit Less series is to give you 3 specific strategies that will help you make sitting less and moving more easier and just part of what you do naturally .....a true lifestyle change. Our…
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Making Sitting Less a Habit: Challenge 1
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Making Sitting Less a Habit (Part 1) First Challenge: Laying the Foundation to Sit Less Let's spend the first two weeks of October focused on sitting less and moving more. Paying attention to how much you sit and taking steps to sit less is a critical element of your overall health.…
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Check-in: The Happiness Jar
For those of you participating in this week's challenge, how is your week going? Are you filling up that jar?
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Check-in: Balancing Act
For those of you participating in this week's challenge, how is it going for you? Are the balance exercises becoming a bit easier?
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Sept 25 Weekly Challenge: Balancing Act
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Balancing Act This week, let's focus on improving our balance. Better balance improves coordination, joint stability, agility, reaction time, and prevents falls and fractures. Balance is a core asset to our health and fitness and one that is frequently overlooked. As one balance…
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Sept 18 Weekly Challenge: Mindful Eating
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: Mindful Eating Our challenge this week is to practice mindful eating at least one meal a day. Since mindful eating is a term that has gained popularity recently but can have lots of different connotations, let's start with a definition: This week, let's focus on really paying attention when…
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Check-in: Mindful Eating
For those participating in our mindful eating challenge this week, how is it going for you? Would love to hear your updates!
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Schedule for September Challenges
Here's what's coming up for our September challenges! Sept 4 - Sept 10: Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Good Start and Good End How do you start your day and how do you end it? There are lots of benefits to having a morning and evening routine. This week, let's put into practice routines that can make a real difference…
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Sept 11 Weekly Challenge: The Happiness Jar
Theme: Greater Happiness Challenge: The Happiness Jar Here's an interesting mismatch. According to researchers, the average person has three times as many positive experiences as they do negative experiences throughout the day. But in a carryover from our hunter-gatherer days, our brains tend to overlook these positive…
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Check-in: Good Start and Good End
If you're joining us for our challenge this week, how is it going for you? Are you getting a morning and/or evening routine that works for you?
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Check-in: Unplugged
For those of you participating in our Unplugged challenge this week, how is it going for you? Are you able to stick with the time you've designated as a no phone/computer slot? Is this challenge more difficult than you imagined? Or is it easier? Do you see yourself unplugging on a regular basis after this week?
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Sept. 4 Weekly Challenge: Good Start and Good End
Theme: Healthy Habits Challenge: Good Start and Good End Confession. I often select our weekly challenges from things that I'd like to work on, or put into practice, or know more about. This week's challenge is in that category. I have a pretty decent morning routine that sets a positive tone for the rest of the day. But I…
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Check-in: Sticking With It
For those of you participating in this week's challenge, are you sticking with it? Are you fitting in some exercise into your hectic week? Let's finish August strong!
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August 28 Weekly Challenge: Sticking With It
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Sicking With It Our challenge this week is simple but it's not easy. This week, let's stay on track and not veer away from our exercise habits and routines. Granted, there's a lot of competition for your time right now. It's the end of the summer and that means children and…
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Check-in: Let's Eat Local
If you are participating in this week's challenge, please let us know how it's going for you! Maybe you have a picture to share of your local foods?
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August 21 Weekly Challenge: Let's Eat Local
Theme: Healthy Eating Challenge: Let's Eat Local Before summer takes its final bow and we usher in cooler temperatures, let's take some time this week to enjoy one of the best parts of summer-- the bountiful and delicious fruits and vegetables that are so abundant this time of year. I think the best tasting produce is…
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August 14 Weekly Challenge: Unplugged
Theme: Greater Happiness Challenge Challenge: Unplugged (By Request) The goal of this week's challenge is to create a little more quiet space in our lives. Let's do that by stepping away from our phones, tablets, laptops, personal computers, and other devices briefly and taking a technology break this week. How long a…
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Check-in: Accident Proof
For those of you participating in this week's challenge, how is it going for you? Have you found a few areas in your home that could be made safer?
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August 7 Weekly Challenge: Accident Proof
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Accident Proof This week, let's take a closer look at our homes. Let's do a room by room inventory and look for potential accidents waiting to happen. According to the Home Safety Council, home accidents cause 20,000 deaths in the United States each year, and what's just as striking,…
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July 31 Weekly Challenge: Make Your Week Harder
Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: Make Your Week Harder If you've participated in several of our weekly challenges, you've probably noticed a consistent theme: our daily habits have a tremendous impact on our health and wellbeing. In fact, small habit changes and tweaks to your daily routine are the most sustainable…
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Check-in: Make Your Week Harder
If you're participating in this week's challenge, how is it going for you? Is your week just a little harder?
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Check-in: 15 Minutes for Me
If you are joining us for this week's challenge, how is it going for you? Can you see yourself making this part of your daily routine?
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Schedule for August Challenges
Here's what's planned for our August weekly challenges! July 31 - Aug 6: Theme: Exercise and Movement Challenge: "Make Your Week Harder" Dr. Mike Evans developed and promotes the concept of "Make Your Day Harder" by looking for opportunities to add a few more steps and a little more activity to your daily routine. This…
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Check-in: Changing it Up
If you are participating in this week's challenge to increase the variety of foods eaten this week, how is it going for you?
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July 17 Weekly Challenge: 15 Minutes for Me
Theme: Happiness Challenge Challenge: 15 Minutes for Me This week let's focus on looking at time differently. Let's use "micro-minutes" to relax, restore, and rejuvenate us. Or alternatively, let's use a little chunk of each day to lay the foundation for making progress on a goal or aspiration that you have. Something that…
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Check-in: Just Breathe
For those of you participating in our deep breathing challenge this week, how is it going for you? Are you finding that a quick deep breathing session calms and relaxes you, or re-energizes you? I'm looking forward to hearing your updates!
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July 10 Weekly Challenge: Just Breathe
Theme: Healthy Practices Challenge: Just Breathe You always have with you a powerful tool that can quickly reduce your stress, lower your blood pressure, and re-energize you: your breath. It's easy to overlook breathing. After all, it's an automatic process and something each of us to do about 20,000 times a day. Because…
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Check-in: Lots of Squats!
For those of you participating in our squats challenge this week, how are you doing? Are you finding a couple of spots in your day to slide in a few sets of squats? How do you feel?