# 31-Day Challenge

> 31-Day Challenge

- Canonical: https://neurohackingly.com/31daychallenge/
- Published: 2022-09-15
- Updated: 2023-09-08
- Author: Lukas Zangerl
- Tags: self-experiment

![Large number 31 representing the 31-day challenge](../../assets/content-images/31daychallenge/31.png)

**31 Insane + Nice Things I Will Do In The Next Coming Weeks**

## 🚀 Impossible Things completed, which brought me out of my comfort zone

I've had a **bucket list and every year a new vision board** for quite some time now. I have been collecting new Challenges on them for quite some time now.

Enclosed you will find some of the things I have done this year. (2022)

*   [Running a marathon (without any training)](/how-to-run-a-marathon-without-any-training-2/)
*   [Europe's highest bungee jump (220meters)](/europes-highest-bungee-jump-how-to-expand-your-comfort-zone/)
*   [Olympic Triathlon: 8 Things You Have To Know](/olympic-triathlon/)

> _The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself. -Tony Robbins_

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🎯 I'm doing this because I want to get myself **out of my comfort zone.** I also find it great for **prioritization and focusing on only one thing a day.**

You can learn more about this challenge on my [YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOPBNUSX_4Z7l2Qc-FYMS3g) and your favorite [podcast](/) app. I made 2 podcast episodes, where I specifically talk about **how to get out of your comfort zone and embrace a challenge.** 💪🏼

I have written down **31 items out of 4 categories:**

1.  Items that are on my **vision board,** which I created this year and didn't do until now.
2.  Some tasks I have been **postponing for weeks/months.**
3.  **30-day challenges** I chunked down to 1-day challenges because I would otherwise be overwhelmed by them. Like [these 30-day experiments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D0HRrl2P1o&list=PLXKuahfdkl6zkBULJhEMNy_RnErOYXwJk) from Matt D'Avella.
4.  Things I thought of when I read the **blog post [**"Top Five Regrets of the dying"**](https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/).**

#### Top 5 Regrets of the dying

The [5 regrets of the dying](https://bronnieware.com/blog/regrets-of-the-dying/) was written by a nurse who counseled the dying in their last days and revealed the ****most common regrets we have at the end of our lives.****

Common themes surfaced again and again, which are:

1\. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2\. I wish I hadn't worked so hard.

3\. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.

4\. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5\. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

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# 🤸🏼‍♂️ 31 Things I Will Do This Year

## 🪐 Way out of my comfort zone

1.  Ask for a 20% discount at a supermarket/Starbucks
2.  Compliment one stranger

## 🤯 Things I have procrastinated on for weeks/months/years because I felt overwhelmed by the duration/workload

3\. Create an online course that sucks and publish it, in one day

4\. Make a YouTube video and post it online 28.09.22

5\. Go to a retirement home and ask some residents about their story

6\. Do 3 good things for other people 03.10.22

[7\. Journal for 1 hour](/nr-7-journal-for-1-hour/) 29.09.22

## 📅 30-day challenges chunked down

[8\. Don't use my phone for 1 day](/expanding-my-comfort-zone/) 25.10.22

9\. Don't eat artificial sugar for one day

10\. Don't beat myself up for one day

~11. Don't complain for one day (very hard for me, as an Austrian 😉 ) 05.10.22

12\. Give away 30 things

## 😴 Boring administrative stuff, but still important

13\. Search for an apartment

[14\. Make my Email inbox 0](/14-19-inbox-0-newsletter/) 30.09.22

15\. Make a new Health Insurance

16\. Organize all the files on my computer

17\. Record some audio files I promised a friend

18\. Sell my old laptop 02.10.22

[19\. Unsubscribe from all the newsletters I receive regularly via Email and don't need](/14-19-inbox-0-newsletter/) 26.09.22

## 🧓🏼 What I always wanted to do/learn before I die

20\. Do volunteer work

21\. Go surfing

22\. Buy a lottery ticket

23\. Write a handwritten letter to my grandparents and tell them how much I love them 15.11.22

[24\. Stare at the ceiling for 1 hour](/ceilingchallenge/) 24.09.22

25\. Bake a cake

## 💜 Self-love

[26\. Write down 100 things that make me happy](/100thingshappy/) 23.09.22

27\. Don't do anything for one day

28\. Meditate for 2 hours - signed up for Vipassana in November (little more than 2 hours)

## 🌞 Friends and Family (not a challenge 😊)

29\. Call 3 friends I haven't spoken to for a long time

30\. Phone my parents and sister and tell them how much I love them ("I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.", Top five regrets of the dying)

## 😎 "Cool" things to have done (bonus)

[31\. Do 1000 push-ups](/do1000pushups/) 25.09.22

[32\. Draw a picture and sell it on eBay](/draw-a-picture-and-sell-it-on-ebay/) 22.09.22

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