Challenge: It takes about $1,700 a month worth of savings for 17 years to generate enough wealth to be able to “earn” the average yearly income of a U.S. household (where the wage earners have Bachelors degree) in interest. Our challenge to you is the develop a plan to bake this level of savings into your budget and explain how you managed to do it. References: Historic Rates of Return (Stern) Consumer Expenditures (2010, Bureau...

Challenge: How are you going to spend your next year? Your challenge is to figure that out and to tell us what you came up with. We’ve provided you with a few open ended questions that might help you to start building....

Challenge: There are thousands of articles on how to live to be 500 in perfect health without resorting to radical cybernetic enhancements or clones, while we are gleefully awaiting our new robotic eyes and pig hearts, for the time being we decided to take a slightly more down to Earth approach to living longer; thus, our challenge to you, to get control of the three main drivers of health: Food, Exercise and Stress and to tell us what changes...

Challenge: Technology can help is live happier more productive lives, it can also be a great, big pain in the gearbox. The difference between these two outcomes often boils down to the reason why you decide to apply technology to a particular scenario. That is why our next challenge is to develop a Geek Pack. This is a set of technologies you use to enhance your life by automating tasks you hate, giving you access to better information and...

Challenge: When making the Financial Independence graphic we assumed that you wouldn’t have to crawl your way out of debt before starting on our little adventure to freedom, if you’re like nearly 50% of America this assumption is simply not true. So, to make up for our forgetfulness we have put together a two year challenge to rid you of debt. All you need to do is find about $1,600 a month a be willing to put it towards your debt...

Challenge: Unless you have discovered the secrets of time travel you only have about 24 hours in a given day and most of those hours are spoken for. There are, however, a few minutes out of the day that you could probably use more effectively, that’s what this challenge is for. We want you to take a look at how the average American spends his time and figure out how you could do better. We’ve provided a couple places to start, and...