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Okay, so now that we've got the obligatory Tom Cruise reference out of the way, on with the actual challenge. My wife and I discussed the idea of using money deposited in a savings account to motivate me towards actually getting my goals acheived. The purpose of these savings you ask? Why, to pay for a powerlifting coach of course! Anyway, the budget is $100 per challenge, and it is to be divided up according to my natural tendency towards completing those objectives without additional motivation. For instance, I hate cardio but love lifting, so a cardio workout will therefore be worth more money than a lifting session (example only, not what I'm planning on doing). On to the actual goals. I've decided that for general health, and improving my wilks score, and setting a good example for the baby we're expecting in November, the best thing I can do right now, is lose weight. I know, I've had this goal basically since I join NF all those years ago, but, I'm approaching it slightly more intelligently (I think) and adding incentives towards actually sticking to it. I've chosen three things to focus on this challenge that will all help me on my way towards this goal. If I can make them stick, hopefully, as time goes by, they'll cease to be goals and just become the way I manage my life. I then assigned the necessary dollar values to them based on previous difficulty motivating myself. Goal One: Take a set of starting point photos, and a set of starting point measurements. Then, post them online for the purpose of transparency and accountability. This is a real challenge for me if I'm honest. I'm really not looking forward to it at all. But if I want those dollah dollah bills, I gotta be willing to work hard for the money. Take a set of starting point photos: $2 Take a set of starting point measurements: $2 Post the photos online: $3 Post the measurements online: $3 Goal Total: $10 Goal Two: Cardio, fitness and metabolic conditioning are all obviously good things for a lot of reasons, and should help with the whole weight loss thing. But being already quite time poor, I'm not willing to commit to hours of liss cardio at this point. Instead, to try and build up my conditioned state, I want to do burpee workouts three times per week on off days from the gym. I workout Mon Wed Fri, so this will likely be Tue Thu Sat. And the workout would be sets of 5, and I complete as many sets as the current challenge week number. So week 1 would be 1x 5 burpees, week 2 would be 2x 5 burpees, etc. 12 burpee workouts: $2.5 per workout Goal Total: $30 Goal Three: Meal Plan each week so we can be more organized and eat less takeaway. Simple enough, and is one of the first things normally suggested to people that want to lose weight. Honestly, the only reason I haven't done it yet is laziness. It is therefore worth the majority of my $100. 4 meal plans: $10 per meal plan 4 shopping lists: $5 per shopping list Goal Total: $60 Finally a small bonus goal is to do a little bit of meal prepping. One session per week is the goal. 4 meal prep sessions: $2 per session Goal Total: $8 This isn't worth a lot because it's a bonus over and above my $100 budget. TL;DR Need to lose weight, willing to pay myself to do it. Get starting photos and measurements: $10 Do burpees: $30 Meal Plan: $60 Meal prep: $8