My Tech-free Challenge!

Before I embark on my tech-free challenge, it would be useful to all my readers to explain what a tech-free challenge is and what it will consist of. A tech-free challenge is a 24-48 hour period that you don't use technology to a certain level. I plan on taking the tech-free challenge at level 1: no cell phones, iPods, console games, computers or internet. I will perform my tech-free challenge on October 12th, 2009.

On the day of my tech-free challenge, I went bow hunting. It was the opening day of the season and I had been planning on going out for a while. I thought this would be a good time to do the challenge because there wouldn't be many responsibilities that I would have to tend to: homework, work, school, etc. I woke up to an alarm (which was allowed) around 4:45am and got ready to venture into the woods. I wandered the woods for a few hours and then I went back home for lunch. I did watch a little TV while eating lunch. I then began to do some homework that wasn't necessary to do but I did it anyways because at that time of day, the deer would not be moving around anywhere so if I was in the woods it would have been quite useless. Around 4:30 I got dressed again in all my hunting gear and ventures back into the woods until sunset. (I did take a nap while I was at home after lunch.)

I did not find the challenge to be challenging. I had been planning to go hunting that day anyways. In some ways I feel that I cheated because I made it so easy for myself to succeed. We were suppose to try to live a normal day without technology. The thing is, if this had been a normal day where I was able to use technology, I wouldn't have used it because I was in the woods and there was no purpose for me to use it at all. Some exceptions of technology that I could have used, but didn't, are a rangefinder, electronic calls, GPS, etc.

Perhaps you could take this challenge upon yourself? Does it sound interesting? I found this challenge relatively easy because the activities I chose to do didn't require much technology.

Now, I challenge you...to challenge yourself.

Thanks for reading!