“Dad look at my shirt. (A turkey with a tie)” “It’s the first day of November.” “The countdown to Thanksgiving begins.”The turkey moved.”my oldest son Coleston said as I stared at my monitor trying to think of something to write about to you today.

So what’s the Turkey all about? 

We started years ago the Elf On The Shelf during Christmas. My wife decided to add a turkey for Thanksgiving to the mix. The difference is that we needed to try to catch the turkey with a trap. Which moves every day.

What I mean by we is my son Coleston and I. I assist him in looking up how to build traps online. Then we set them. We had an early start in November because he saw the turkey in the garage. But we explained that it’s not turkey season yet so it doesn’t move around much.

Today that all ended. As you can tell. The cool thing about this is what can be learned from it. 

This is actually a challenge. A challenge to catch a turkey setting traps. Something neither of us knows how to do. It’s something we also never would have figured out either if it wasn’t for the challenge.

That’s what makes challenges so great for us. If we leave things to ourselves, we tend to be lazy. We want to take the easy way out in life. On the surface, we think that’s the best thing to do. 

But it really costs us a lot of valuable experiences and memories. All because we don’t push ourselves. Or we allow life to get in the way.

Either way, not much gets done.

I have a friend Ryan Sloper who likes to put out challenges. The last one he did was a pull-up challenge. Which I didn’t do. He most recent though is a Daddy Date Night challenge.

This one I have accepted.

It consists of spending 1 hour of alone time with each child each week. I have 4 so that’s a good commitment. It also requires at least 1 date night a week with my spouse. All of this is with no interruptions of phones or other people. This goes on for the next 30 days.

It’s an all-out blitz for me. I have been changing how much time I dedicate to my family over the last year. But it hasn’t been as focused as this.

That’s the great thing about challenges. They lay everything out for you to do. All you need to do is do it. Do the work and amazing things happen. I just started this one this week. I’ll keep you posted on how I do.

I know great things will come out of it because I took a similar challenge to change how I ran my real-estate business. That challenge was to throw away all the garbage I had been taught for years in the sales game and build a Value Driven Approach.

This lead to my co-authoring my book The Value Driven Approach To Sell Real Estate. It also changed how I looked at my partners. The results have been quit AMAZING. Not only on the outside but on the inside of me as well.

Someone once told me “pigs don’t know pigs stink.” I lived in a world of sales that was like that for a long time.

Thanks to a challenge though I stepped out of my comfort. I decided to start to look at things differently. It changed everything.

So now I’m setting traps. Spending time with my son. A challenge is how it starts. 

If you feel stuck somehow take a look at joining a challenge.

Trust me. You’ll thank me for it. Not because you completed the challenge. But because of the person you’ve become.

Have a great weekend. :)