Personal Development

9 Personal Growth Challenges You Have To Try

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Who doesn’t love a good challenge? Even more so when that challenge aids your personal growth.

Therefore I have taken the time to list some of the personal growth challenges that excite me and hopefully will thrill you as well.

Please comment down below any additional challenge you recommend to your fellow Felicity Seekers.

1. 111 Things To Be Grateful For

The rules are simple: You have to find 111 different things you can truly feel grateful for.

For this challenge, try to find things that are in your life long-term.

For your daily gratitude list, you can write stuff like, “I am so grateful I got the perfect parking spot yesterday when I was later for my appointment.” And it’s great and vital to acknowledge small blessings like these.

But for this list, we want to name big things. Things that you will be grateful for in a year from now when you have a bad day and look back at this list.

2. Read 12 Non-Fiction Books In A Year

It’s sad to hear about those statistics about how few people read actual books nowadays. And it’s even more tragic if you notice that the majority of readers focus on fiction.

There is a whole world out there of non-fiction books that can be truly life-altering! And once you’ve dove into it, I am sure you will become addicted (in a good way) as I have become since my first non-fiction book.

So, I challenge you to read one non-fiction book a month for a year. Or if you are a fast reader and ambitious, you might even challenge yourself to read one book every two weeks.

If you need inspiration on what to read, check out my Reading List for Personal Growth.

3. Try Not To Spend Anything Challenge

For one week, try not to spend any money. If necessary, you can modify this by allowing yourself to pay for one thing – fuel, for example.

This challenge will make you very aware of where you spend your money. And even more so if these are essential expenses or if you can cut them out in the future.

4. Sugar-Free Challenge

It can genuinely be an eyeopening experience to not eat sugar for a week or a month.

Suddenly, you realize how much sugar you’ve actually been consuming and which processed food surprisingly contain sugar.

Also, if you usually have a high sugar intake, you will feel a striking difference in your overall wellbeing throughout the challenge.

I included this food challenge because it might get you started on changing your diet in general. And once you start to focus on what you eat and how to be healthy, you might get into body-hacking, too. And shouldn’t personal growth challenges make you grow in every area of your life?

5. Digital Detox Challenge

Let’s quit Social Media for a month!

I love this challenge because I know how much my life has changed since I stopped being on social media or apps like Whatsapp that much.

I felt better about myself, comparing myself less with my peers, and experienced less envy.

But most importantly, THE TIME BENEFIT!

I still can’t believe how much time I used to spend on all those apps. And mind you, I was by far not as much on them as many others nowadays.

Another thing I recommend is trying to ditch Instagram for Pinterest.

I used to like getting inspired by Instagram. But since it is a social media platform, there were all those people posting about their lives, which got me into comparison mode.

Pinterest, on the other hand, as I now know, is a search engine. That’s why I intuitively used to feel way less pressured and envious when using it compared to Instagram.

I could solely focus on getting inspiration without comparisonitis lowering my vibrations.

6. Learn 1 Skill Every Month

Felicity Seekers are students for life. We love to continuously grow.

Yet in the busyness of daily life, we often forget to make time for learning something new if we don’t consciously block some time for it.

That’s why, in this challenge, I want you to block an hour or so a day to learn a new skill.

This can be accomplished, for example, by joining Skillshare/Masterclass.com/Udemy/Mindvalley and doing one course a month.

7. Recall Your Dreams For A Month

Dreams are more than just random scenes playing out in our minds. In them, our mind processes the input of information it receives throughout the day.

And sometimes, dreams can be quite valuable to us because they make us realize certain things or even spark a new idea.

If we were just able to remember them.

This is where this personal growth challenges comes in.

For the next month, put a notebook next to your bed and write down everything you remember right after waking up.

In the beginning, you might only remember frustratingly small snippets. However, as you keep training your memory, you will remember more and more.

8. Stick To A Strict Sleep Schedule Every Day For 30 Days

This personal growth challenge requires you to go to bed at the same time every day and wake up at the same time daily as well.

Most importantly, this includes weekends!

I used to be very consistent with my sleeping schedule on workdays, but on the weekend, I used to go to bed later and sleep a bit longer.

That changed when I took the weekend shift in a factory over my semester break.

Within two weeks of having the same sleeping schedule every day, including weekends, I noticed that I started to wake up shortly before my alarm went off automatically. And don’t you just love that feeling!

No tiredness you need to beat for the first few minutes of the day. Just waking up energized and ready to tackle the day.

9. 30 days of journaling

We hear about people journaling everywhere. Yet many people seem to consider it somewhat cringy.

I’d like to change your mind about that. Journaling can genuinely help you get rid of those messy thoughts of yours that seem to overwhelm your brain.

I encourage you to take at least 30 minutes of your evening to journal about all the stuff that’s going through your head. Maybe you have to make an important decision but keep getting stuck. Perhaps someone annoyed you, and you really need to get your thoughts out in one way or another.

And should you be completely unsure what to journal about, there are tons of great journaling prompts all over Pinterest.

You can also check out my 11 Journaling Prompts To Sky-Rocket Into The New Year.