I started getting all my challenges together for other people this week (well they have been in development for some time). I decided that because it was the April Challenge, being the fourth month of the year I should create four challenges. The challenges were influenced by religion, advertising, Danny Wallace and popular culture. I decide to look at things that I thought were challenging to people. The religious fast interested me, its purpose, use, and the effect on the people undertaking it. I then took advertising, the challenge and persuasion in a set of words, a phrase that could make decisions. As general “research” for the 2010 Challenge I have been reading a lot of Danny Wallace, and I took a lot from The Yes Man, it only seemed appropriate to make others try. Finally I looked at popular culture and challenges we are familiar with, this led to the Guinness Book of World Records. So here are the four challenges:
1. Live off a food and drink budget of £1 per day for two weeks. This can be a combined budget of £7 per week.
2. Just do it!
3. Say yes to every opportunity, invitation or question that requires a decision for 31 consecutive days. To be started in June 2010.
4. Beat a world record.
I thought it was probably appropriate to challenge some of the people who had previously challenged me, and alongside them I would give them a counterpart, another person to complete the challenge with (this person hadn’t previously challenged me). Their counterpart is kept a secret, neither person know each other, but they attempt the challenge. To this end I have created four teams one for each challenge which is as follows:
Challenge 1: Orange Team
Challenge 2: Salmon Pink Team
Challenge 3: Blue Team
Challenge 4: Yellow Team
I decided not to ask the participants whether they would want to be involved or not, so its a bit of a gamble, to see whether they accept the challenges or not!
Never the less they hit the post this week, all I can do now is wait and see.
