I Dare You

Do you remember playing the game 'dare' with your friends as a child or teen? I sure do. I remember sitting around at sleepovers and parties taking turns giving dares to each other. We would dare each other to do the silliest or most scary things we could think of. Perhaps it would be to jump into a pool or lake in the winter or maybe we would dare each other to make a prank phone call to the neighbors.

I miss those days of playing dare. Not that I miss being made to do things that were mostly foolish, but I miss the feelings of risk and of making life a little more exciting. Until recently, my adult life had turned out to be much less risky and much less exciting than my childhood days were.

One day not too long ago I decided to reinvent the game of dare for myself. This time all of the dares came from myself to myself. No friends or neighbors were involved. My new dare game consisted of taking time to evaluate my current life. I grabbed an empty journal and began filling page after page with reflections, questions, and wonders about how my life has become the way it is. I also made a long list of all the things in life that I still dream about doing but have yet to actually try. I call it my "I dare you" list. I guess in some ways it is the list of things that I am committing to dare myself to do in the coming weeks and years of my life.

On my "I dare you" list are things like learning how to throw my own pottery on a wheel, learning how to change the oil in my car, and spending a month backpacking through Europe. My list of dares contains things large and small. On it I dare myself to do things that will take a minute and I dare myself to do things that will affect me and others for the rest of my lifetime. I guess for me the main thing in creating my "I dare you" list was not the kind of dares I included but just that I was completely honest with myself and that I included everything I could think to dare myself about.

So now it is your turn. I dare you to take a good look at your life. I dare you to make a list of all the things you dreamed that your life would hold. And I dare you to commit to accomplishing things off that list every day and every year until each dare has been done.

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Author Rachael Cleipher is an expert at living on the edge and at helping others to do the same. www.cooldare.info will teach you more about adding a little dare to your life.

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