As a general practice, I have really started to find the act of Voluntary Discomfort to be very enjoyable and worthwhile. This practice is something that I have done for a long time but I have never been intentional about it. I’ve only occasionally done things like taking walks in freezing weather or taking cold showers to start or end a day. Every time I had no plan though, I simply started and stopped at a random interval. Moving forward I’m going to be intentional about this practice from now on, I’m planning to do each act of Voluntary Discomfort in a 30 day series and also journal the results.
First up for the month of January will be the Voluntary Discomfort of spending no money for the entire month (or as long as we can go). To start this challenge we did the following:
-Filled up our cars with gas on 12/31/2017
-Purchased groceries on 12/31/2017
And that’s pretty much it! We are simply going to try and see how long we can go without making a single purchase. Luckily we both do not have very far commutes so we think the tank of gas in each vehicle should come pretty close to lasting the entire month. Hopefully, we can last the entire month, that does seem pretty extreme though so we will see how far we can get!