Best ‘7 Day Challenges’ to Boost Your Creativity

‘7 Day Challenge’, sounds exciting, right? Taking challenges is the best way to set targets and conquer them. Tracking your progress is also easy in this case. You get to know that everything is going right in the game when you are winning over each challenge with ease.

You’ll see yourself in a better state once you take up at least 2 challenges out of this list for a week.

We researched over all the factors which contribute in boosting our creativity and came up with five challenges.

Challenge adds the ‘HapRamp’ factor in the process, we believe that creating a competitive space and taking up a dare is a nice way to accomplish things.

Let us hop into the challenges:

1.“The Complete Change”

In this challenge, you need to change certain things completely. Such as your living area, workplace, the playlist, workout routines, your bed’s position, and what not. You may visit places that you’ve never been to, talk to new people or go on a short trip. We are talking about a change which should shatter you in and out. A change that forces you to think differently.

How does this help?

Creativity is like a muscle. The more you exercise your creativity, the stronger it gets.

In the process of making change for 7 days and then adapting accordingly will give birth to new ideas, you’d definitely enjoy that week of ‘The Complete Change’.

2. “7 Days passive slaking”

The easiest of all the challenges here :)

All you need to do for a week is ‘Nothing’.

Passive Slaking means doing the bare minimum of the routine work and doing what you love to do. Bring out that To-do list of your and read that book you were planning for so long or go dance, talk long walks or go paint for a week, cook for yourself or sing out loud. Do something that stirs your thought process and literally nothing for the rest of your time.

How does this help?

New thoughts can only be created in a state of relaxation. This one week of passive Slaking will give you utter composure to innovate.

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something. They feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”

–Steve Jobs

3.“The Golden Hour”

You’d end up learning a new thing by completing this challenge.

First things first, what is the one thing that you always wanted to learn but you are procrastinating, now is the time to learn it. All you need to do is practice it daily for 1 Hour, right before going to bed, that’s it. Do this for 7 days straight and you’ve added up a new skill. Kudos.

How does this help?

Our brain is at work even when we are asleep and the dreams are mostly related to our daily work. So, if we hack into our brains and feed it the right dose every day before sleeping, it’ll grasp it much faster and better.

4.“The 5 AM Club”

In the first half of the day, our body and brain are the most active.

In this challenge, you need to wake up at 5 AM in the morning for a week and utilize your first 1–2 hours in the most important activities of your day. Prepare for the toughest tasks beforehand and work around, this will give you a head start for the day.

The direct benefits are, you get plenty of time in the evening, waking up early is beneficial for our health, and of course, it’ll make waking up early easier by the end of a week.

How does this help?

Research says that early risers are more proactive, better planners, and optimistic. So, if things go accurate throughout the day then you are more likely to foster new ideas and innovate.

5.“10 Ideas a Day”

Our heads are full of ideas, we create 50,000–70,000 thoughts per day.

Some thoughts out of them can make this world a better place and carries the potential of changing your existence for better. But, only if you can remember them and work upon those ideas.

To take this challenge, buy a new pocket diary and carry it with you. Your task is to brainstorm and write 10 ideas every day. Do this for a week and you’ll end up with 70 brand new ideas.

How does this help?

We’ve potential of doing and creating much more than we do. If you write down the good ideas the moment you invent or discover them, you are indirectly training your brain to create more such thoughts.

Tell us your ideas for boosting creativity and comment down which challenge would you take first?

Originally published at hapramp.com on June 13, 2017.