Challenge 46 · 7 days
The First Move
Progress begins with action.
“I don’t wait to be chosen.”
Why this challenge
Waiting can look like patience while quietly becoming avoidance.
This challenge puts participation back into your own hands and teaches you that your life does not require someone else to begin it for you.
What you do
Every day, initiate something you have been waiting for someone else to initiate.
Send the message.
Make the invitation.
Start the conversation.
Ask the question.
Before you begin
Small steps create big change.
Ideas for your first move
- Send that message you've been meaning to send.
- Sign up for a class, event, or membership.
- Start the project (even if it's just 10 minutes).
- Make the appointment you've been avoiding.
- Begin a new habit (workout, reading, saving, etc.).
- Have a difficult conversation.
- Book the trip or research the destination.
- Create something (a playlist, a post, a plan).
- Clean one space you've been putting off.
- Choose one goal and write the first step.
- Do one thing today that your future self will thank you for.
- Take a walk or explore a new area.
- Volunteer or do something kind for someone else.
- Other.
Focus areas
- Health and fitness
- Mental health
- Relationships
- Career / work
- Education / learning
- Finances
- Creativity / passions
- Personal growth
- Travel / adventure
- Home / organization
- Social life
- Other
Keywords
- I don’t wait to be chosen.
- Sign up for a class, event, or membership.
- Make the appointment you've been avoiding.
- Have a difficult conversation.
- Book the trip or research the destination.
- Clean one space you've been putting off.
- Choose one goal and write the first step.
- Take a walk or explore a new area.
The point
- Every day, initiate something you have been waiting for someone else to initiate.
- Send the message.
- Make the invitation.
- Start the conversation.
- Send that message you've been meaning to send.
- Start the project (even if it's just 10 minutes).
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.