Friday, 9th of April 2010 at 07:26:10 AM 
My comfort zone is IN THAT PLANE...
So. We are done, thank God, with the organizational challenge. And I think we all learned exactly how far I will go to avoid tidying the Pit of Sauron (conveniently located for orcs everywhere just inside my garage). If you even TRY to make me organize my shoes, my liver is poised to leap up through my throat and smother me as it escapes out my nostril and then bounds away. Considering how much I like all this being alive crap what with the chocolate and the children to be reared and loveliness of daisies and whatnot, we won’t be doing THAT again.
We actually fully planned to go back to a fitness challenge after this one, but some of us are not quite medically ready to be serious about it. Gray and I are hopefully mending, and we are going to do a fitness challenge NEXT, probably involving athletic event training for some us and food based, Animal Vegetable Miracle style Farmer’s market challenge for others.
But for the next five weeks, we thought we’d do something completely different. Literally.
We are ALL going to do something completely different. We are going to step outside our comfort zones. We haven’t decided what to call it yet. “The Challenge Challenge” maybe. I personally like “Mandatory Discomfort…” We don’t quiiiite have it yet.
I want that dress.
The overall title is hard because, while quite a few of these challenges WILL relate to fitness, this is going to mean something slightly different for each of us. We’ll be doing things to help us remember who we were before wifeliness and motherhood, or things that help us decide who we want to be, going forward. As always, our goal here is to become healthier, more aware, happier people, in spite of the fact that we are all, every single one of us reading this blog, and yes that means you too, overscheduled and too busy to breathe properly.
For the next five weeks, all five of us will be trying something very, very new that takes us outside our comfort zones. We hope you will start thinking about the different kinds of ruts you have worn in your life, and what you might do to get out of them and begin to make new, more exciting ruts. We even more fervently hope you will sweetly in the comments help us think of a name for this challenge. If you do, there will be a prize! The person who comes up with the name we decide to use will win a signed copy of the ARC of my latest book, Backseat Saints. It won’t even be out until June 8, so you can be the first one your block, etc.
SO put on your thinking caps! Help us out. The winning challenge title will be decided by all five of us.
And put on your thinking caps about how you plan to interpret this challenge…My current comfort zone is the tract of land between my bed and the sofa, so this is going to be considerably easier on me than everyone else. In yer face, ladies.
Official Very Strict Rules: One entry per person. Leave a real email address so we can contact you. Play nicely with others. Don’t run with scissors. Etc.
The Comfort Slayers…as in killing the Comfort Zone.
The “Get awwllll your junk together” Challenge
Earth to The Old Me Challenge
(the) Don’t Let Your Rut Become a Grave (Challenge)
This reminds me of the Serenity prayer, so maybe the, “Changing the Things we Can” challenge?
How about Our Challenge?
How about “Live before you die”?
Or “Break out of your comfort zone”?
“Challenge yourself”
(Yes, I’m cheating by entering more than one. I reeeaaally want that book.)
Or maybe “I have no freaking idea, but I could kill for a preview copy so please chose me anyway”?
The “Come Out from Under Your Rock” Challenge
(then again, I suppose that’s not an issue for everybody)
I’m going with Monty Python – “and now for something completely different” challenge
One entry per person? *pouts* But what if I come up with a better idea?
(yeah, okay, that’s probably not going to happen…)
The “You Want Me To Do WHAT?!?” Challenge
the difference (between a rut and a grave is the depth)
How about ” The Let Go of the Crazy Comfy Comfort Zones Challenge”?
In Which We Rise to the Challenge . . . Or Not.
It should be called. I WILL NOT BE AFRAID…OR A SLACKER!
There are lots better ones here already, but no one else has offered it so I will: Pushing the Envelope. I think the expression came from flying, when they were trying to break the sound barrier and pushing the limits of what the planes–and pilots–could do. It’s become a bit trite by now, but seems to fit your intentions.
How about The Carpe Diem Challenge? Seize the day, Fearless Five Plates, and your devotees shall follow.
here is my disgraceful entry…”I know,Rut?”
How about the “Make It So” challenge – because of the boldness of the going, where none have gone before?
The Frontseat Saints Challenge (putting yourselves in the front seat and, like you said, becoming a little more of who you were before wife, mother, etc.). And of course, you’re all saints and will step up to the challenge as you always do…. riiiiiight?!
Blaze a New Path Challenge
Hi, Gosh I would LOVE the ARC, and signed even, wow! My entry is:
“The Lead a New Life Challenge”. Can’t wait to see which one ya’ll choose…
the “Don’t Waste Your Chances” Challenge.
Live Free or Die in Comfort
How about:
What The Living Know?
I missed the contest while my computer was being repaired. Still, I like this idea too… “Crawling Out of the Kudzu” Challenge. I may not be the first to read Backseat Saints, but am excited and counting down to its’ release.
I know the contest is over – I’m just posting to say… I, too, want that dress. Passionately. Except that color is, shall we say, not good for me. So I also need the skin and hair color, please. Or maybe the dress in a different color. I’m babbling, sorry.