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Hello! Last challenge, I realized that a lot of the habits I developed in college (namely not budgeting my time/energy, procrastinating, and pulling all-nighters) are not things that will fly in my new, adult work life. With that in mind, my challenge these four weeks will be to focus on ordering my daily life so that I set up healthy habits and time-management. A basic run-down of my weekday will be: 5a - 7am: Wake up, exercise, get ready for work 7:30am - 4pm: Work 4:00pm-6pm: Professional development (for me, that means working on grad school applications, studying for the GRE, and working on research) 6:30 - 9pm: Cook/eat dinner; personal development (i.e. hobbies like ukulele, video games, etc) 9pm - 10pm: Get ready for bed, R&R (reading, mindful thinking, etc) 10pm - 5am: sleeeeeeep (~7hrs) I know it's not perfect, and I KNOW it's ambitious, but I sat down and really thought about a typical day in my life and balanced out what I HAVE to work on and what I WANT to work on and this is the best way I thought I could make it work. I wish I could work in more sleep time, but honestly, my commute is so long and draining that I had to work around that (i.e. working out before I go to work so I can stay late in the office to work on professional development things to avoid traffic after work). I know it's going to take some tweaking, and I won't be 100% successful everyday, but I'm trying to make a lifestyle change, so I think even moderate success will go a long way for setting up lasting habits. My challenge metrics will be as follows: 1. Exercise/complete other activity before work - X of 5 This is the activity that will kick off the day and is really the most challenging aspect of this lifestyle change, making it arguably the most important. I'm giving myself the flexibility to be able to do anything before work, or to wake up not exactly at 5, but with enough time to do whatever and not be (too) late to work. 2. Floss every day - X of 7 I did this for my VERY FIRST challenge, and I thought that I'd made it a habit...but it's not. I think this is going to make a regular appearance in my challenges for months....maybe even years. HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES UNTIL MY DENTAL HYGIENE IS FLAWLESS. And that's it folks! I'm getting rid of a lot of extraneous metrics, because I think if I can focus and nail these down, I'll be able to build other good habits on top of the foundation this lays. I still need to brainstorm some appropriate loot, but I'll update when I figure that out. I just wanted to get my Quests out there!