Resource Weekly challenge thread

[notwhereIbelong]

Was really hoping to get top 10% again, but I was off by 5km on one of them :(

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Today:

 

[Buffy]

This was pretty fun. I thought I'd do horribly, but it was easier than expected.

 

[carac]

one more day to go then done a full week :)

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Today



Mission completed. :-)

 

[dark1337]

I don't have a clue lol

 

[carac]

Final one for the week, didn't do too bad on this one

 

[carac]

Challenge 48: Set a reading goal

So this weeks challenge is not so much about completing something and more about setting something in place (unless you want to do one this week) Do you have some books you want to read? do you want to read more? Is there a book you want to read before you die?

For this weeks challenge, if you wish to take part, all you need to do is set yourself a reading goal you wish to accomplish by a certain time, it could be to read one book it could be to read several books, you can give yourself a week to achieve this or a month or even a year?

Personally my goal will be read a copy of the Last Elf by Silvana De Mar, which was recommended to me. I will try to complete this before the end of November.

 

[Gangrel]

I will try to read a short story ive been meaning to read but i always just look at it and instantly put it down, it's really hard to focus

It's just a silly romance story between professor and student

 

[alltoomuch2]

Sophies Choice is my goal. I'll give myself until 1st October. It was recommended to me and I haven't seen the film. That's the correct order for me. Book first, not film. I'd better go and start reading now.

 

[ConfusedClouds]

I've got a backlog of a few books that I have built up and now I'm down to just one summer job (and the last week of that too), I aim to prioritise reading as my main distraction as my time frees up over the next couple of weeks.

 

[blackbeauty]

I really like this weekly challenge. I used to love reading books so I'll take this prompt as a sign and read The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger which I picked up in a charity shop months ago. I hope to finish it by 6th October.

 

[notwhereIbelong]

Ha, me and my ADHD will have to sit this one out unfortunately. Good luck everyone! (do you need luck to read a book?)

 

[leavingsoonx]

I'm reading a book called Night. Sleep. Death. Stars. My goal is to finish it up by the end of the week. A reading goal could be one book a week since I love to read. Nice challenge

 

[ThatStateOfMind]

Ha, me and my ADHD will have to sit this one out unfortunately. Good luck everyone! (do you need luck to read a book?)

Same here, it's so difficult for me to read. Way easier with an audiobook. Even for school assignments, I'll usually use a TTS to read. I will say, for anyone looking for reading recommendations, I have liked the last two books I've read. Both are pretty well known and one I read for school, the other I read for fun. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and 1984 by George Orwell. Both of these are dystopian novels, one of my favorite genres of books.

 

[carac]

Challenge 49: Give someone a certificate

Giving somebody a certificate can be a great way to show you appreciate someone. It doesn't have to be serious it could be silly or fun or you might just be really grateful to somebody. You can get templates online or create a personal one yourself. Some Ideas might be giving a certificate to a parent for doing something special, a certificate to a colleague who helped you or supported you. Or do you have a friend that you just want to let them know how much they mean to you?

 

[trashhologram]

Challenge 49: Give someone a certificate

Giving somebody a certificate can be a great way to show you appreciate someone. It doesn't have to be serious it could be silly or fun or you might just be really grateful to somebody. You can get templates online or create a personal one yourself. Some Ideas might be giving a certificate to a parent for doing something special, a certificate to a colleague who helped you or supported you. Or do you have a friend that you just want to let them know how much they mean to you?

OMG. My BFF has a birthday next weekend and now I know what kind of a birthday card I'm making them!

 

[CatLvr]

Ohhhhhh-kaaaaayyyyyy!! Sorry I dropped off the radar there for a bit. Old man is out of the woods so I'm back and looking forward to the next challenge! Hopefully, things will stay quiet around here for a while. Don't ever let anyone tell you living with an old man is boring. One medical emergency will change all that in a heartbeat!!

 

[carac]

Challenge 50: Quordle

Ok so that have played wordle, how about doing four wordles at the same time!

Quordle

Play Quordle and guess 4 words at the same time. Quordle is a version of the Wordle game where you have to guess four hidden words in one round.

quordlegame.com

 

[ThatStateOfMind]

Challenge 50: Quordle

Ok so that have played wordle, how about doing four wordles at the same time!

Quordle

Play Quordle and guess 4 words at the same time. Quordle is a version of the Wordle game where you have to guess four hidden words in one round.

quordlegame.com

Ooooh, I've tried this and it's hard. It's been a minute, so I'll try it again and report back.

Edit: got it, I failed my first try and finished my second in just under 5 minutes

 

[carac]

Ooooh, I've tried this and it's hard. It's been a minute, so I'll try it again and report back.

Edit: got it, I failed my first try and finished my second in just under 5 minutes

Nice, I finished the first one but I had a little help from a friend so it took 17 minutes all in all lol

 

[notwhereIbelong]

Oof, this is hard
Only got two words on my first attempt, took like 6 minutes

 

[beluga]

Finally... was not an easy one

 

[JealousOfTheElderly]

Week Three Challenge: Abstinence!
Is there something that you want to cut back on or cut out completely? Something that could be causing you harm or not good for you yet you can't seem to stop. Now is your chance to give it a try. Choose something you want to give up for a certain period of time, and don't do that thing for as long as you set yourself, couldn't be easier!

I'm going to set myself two challenges that I haven't completed yet but will update when I do. For my first I will not use Facebook for 24hrs, I hate social media but I use FB to keep in touch with local groups but I've found myself logging in everday so I'm going to take a whole day off the site. This should be pretty easy for me as I cut myself off that site for 2 years before lol

My second challenge will be to consume no added sugar for 24hrs. I eat far too much sugar so I'm going to have a day when I only have naturally occuring sugars. Might be a bit tough as most produced store bought food contains even a small amount of added sugar so I may need to make my own bread and cut a lot of things out for a day.

I want to cut out alcohol from my life. It's brought me nothing but pain and sadness. The problem is that I'll go a few days without drinking and then I'll have an entire bottle or wine, or half a bottle if I practice some self control.
It helps me with the emotional pain in my heart. Then I feel worse. I feel physically ill. Have trouble recovering from the hangover, and I feel terribly dad and guilty. The cycle continues.
How do I ditch alcohol? How do I make the emotional pain in my heart stop?

 

[CatLvr]

Ok, Quordle is definitely NOT my thing! Good grief, I have never felt so intellectually inadequate in my WHOLE life -- and I'm no youngster by any stretch of the imagination.

I'll start with NEXT week's challenge. Haha!

 

[ConfusedClouds]

Ooooh I like quordle, thanks! Sounds too daunting to try but glad I did. Less pressure with no set limit of guesses. And ability to ignore one word if it is frustrating and focus on others (and likely get better clues for the frustrating one to help out).

 

[carac]

Challenge 51: Do you even lift bro?

We have not had a physcial based challenge in a while. This weeks challenge is to try and lift some weights. They can be any weights, you can get a couple of food cans or a big bottle of water, whatever you are comfortable with. Have a go at trying some exercise, see how many you can do and maybe improve upon it during the week.

Also I am aware I haven't been replying to everyones individual challenge attempts, I have been a bit absorbed elsewhere. Just wanted to say well done to everyone participating and keep it up!

 

[carac]

I forgot to mention there is a weight lifting/exercise thread you can contribute to here https://sanctioned-suicide.net/threads/weight-lifting-exercising-thread.182085/#post-2710239

 

[ConfusedClouds]

This is the most ridiculously timed challenge. Thanks @carac !

I'm a very regular gym goer, so this ordinarily would not be a 'challenge' for me. That was until last week when I relocated! I currently have no membership. Been tempted to allow this as a 'rest' week with needing to arse around town with paperwork etc BUT that is not good for anyone - especially future me.

SO - kick up the backside. One of my new local gyms does a 7 day free pass trial. Have got my plans tomorrow to go sign up for that and try it out - not lose my routine of weights sessions. And then will hopefully feel the need to max out the free 7 days! Saying this out loud this evening so theres accountability for me not being lazy - will report back tomorrow...

 

[A350-1000]

Week Three Challenge: Abstinence!
Is there something that you want to cut back on or cut out completely? Something that could be causing you harm or not good for you yet you can't seem to stop. Now is your chance to give it a try. Choose something you want to give up for a certain period of time, and don't do that thing for as long as you set yourself, couldn't be easier!

I'm going to set myself two challenges that I haven't completed yet but will update when I do. For my first I will not use Facebook for 24hrs, I hate social media but I use FB to keep in touch with local groups but I've found myself logging in everday so I'm going to take a whole day off the site. This should be pretty easy for me as I cut myself off that site for 2 years before lol

My second challenge will be to consume no added sugar for 24hrs. I eat far too much sugar so I'm going to have a day when I only have naturally occuring sugars. Might be a bit tough as most produced store bought food contains even a small amount of added sugar so I may need to make my own bread and cut a lot of things out for a day.

I'm going to be cutting out on YouTube shorts / other short-form content throughout all of November and - hopefully - never watch reels again. Sometimes I even forget that I'm watching short-form content on my computer and whenever I come across it and remember that it is a reel, I either finish the video I'm watching if it's really interesting, or - ideally - immediately go back to the YouTube homepage.

Reels decrease attention span by a lot and I - along with a lot of others - am a victim of it. I've witnessed the effects personally, be measuring how many pages of a book I can read in an hour. I can see the improvement happening, 10 pages every hour.

I'd love to see if any others are going to do this with me (let me know!), I'm practicing for November right now and as of right now, I've got plenty of time to get that practice in before the real thing starts.

Remember guys - I know it's hard but you have to remind yourself what this is doing to your attention span. If you're seriously addicted than try to cut back from shorts for a day or so and see how it goes.

I'd love to talk to you about this, feel free to do so!

Here's a nice video explaining everything you need to know about short-form content and what it does to your brain:


Yours
-A350
P.S. - a really good tip for recovering back attention span unrelated to short-form content is to spend 40 minutes in a session/livestream about something you're interested in/a career you want to do.

For example, I engaged in a Discord QNA session on being a pilot which lasted for approximately 40 minutes.