What Is The 99 Day Challenge and How Do I Jump On Board?

That’s a question I’ve been getting lately, so I thought I’d answer it. How manly of me.

As of today, The 99 Day Challenge, is whatever you want it to be. It’s a challenge to yourself or to a group to which you belong to add one important thing to your life and do it for 99 days consecutively. The hope is that after that 99 days are up, you’ll have a full-fledged healthy new habit that will be so ingrained in your daily life that it’ll be hard to believe you ever lived without it.

Currently, I’m on a Solitude Challenge. The rules for this challenge are simple. Every day for 99 days in a row, I will spend a minimum of 20 minutes alone with God. I can bring my bible and my journal to that time, but nothing else. I sit in a quiet place and spend that time reading, journaling, and/or praying. It’s been great. The 99 Day Challenge gives me the impetus I need to make this a daily act and not a “most of the time” or “every once in a while thing.” It’s been great.

So then, this site will always just be about you and what you’re doing? That’s Lame.
Yes it is. That’s why, in the future, I’ll be opening the site up to other people. It will always work best with a group, but we’re not ready to test all that yet. When we are, I will throw the gates open and let other people launch their own 99 day challenges and set up group blogs and forums where they can encourage each other and help each other complete the challenge they’ve created. I’m guessing we’ll get there sometime in the next 6 months or so – maybe longer.

In the meantime, if you launch a challenge, I want to know about it just so I can encourage you if possible. So, drop me a comment some time.