Challenge 45 · 7 days
Do It Alone
Discover what you're capable of.
“I am good company.”
Why this challenge
The goal is not to prove that you never need anybody.
The goal is to discover through direct experience that loneliness and solitude are not the same thing.
What you do
Do one thing you have always associated with having someone else with you.
Go to dinner.
See a movie.
Attend an event.
Visit somewhere new.
Take yourself somewhere beautiful.
Before you begin
New places. New experiences. A stronger you.
Ideas to do alone
- Have a meal at a restaurant by yourself.
- Go to a movie, museum, or local event.
- Take a walk or hike in a new area.
- Visit a coffee shop and people watch.
- Go on a day trip or explore a nearby town.
- Try a class (cooking, art, fitness, etc.).
- Do a workout at the gym alone.
- Spend a few hours at a bookstore or library.
- Plan a solo travel overnight (even local).
- Sit in a park and just be present.
- Do something you've always wanted to, but waited for someone else to do with you.
Keywords
- I am good company.
- Have a meal at a restaurant by yourself.
- Go to a movie, museum, or local event.
- Take a walk or hike in a new area.
- Visit a coffee shop and people watch.
- Go on a day trip or explore a nearby town.
- Try a class (cooking, art, fitness, etc.).
- Do a workout at the gym alone.
The point
- Do one thing you have always associated with having someone else with you.
- Go to dinner.
- See a movie.
- Attend an event.
- Spend a few hours at a bookstore or library.
- Do something you've always wanted to, but waited for someone else to do with you.
Your record
Where this stands
The tracker is the record. Writing on a day checks that day in. Mark the challenge completed when you finished it, or not continuing when you are done with it. Those marks are the review on your map. The lines under a day are here for whatever you want to say.
7 days
7 days. Open a day to write it. Writing checks that day in.
Day 1
In your own words
This space is here for the day the other lines do not fit. Write it the way you would say it. Add a picture if that is closer. It stays with this day, and it stays on your map.