Three days ago, I finished, I think my sixth, maybe my seventh contentment challenge,

where I give up shopping completely for three months at a time.

Of course, I buy food, I get gas, I get the necessities, but I quit my addiction to Target.

I quit Amazon Prime.

I quit impulse buys.

And I focus my heart on living, on doing things,

on gratitude. So many of you joined me this year. And I'm so grateful that you did. Now, if this is

your first time hearing about the contentment challenge, go back and listen to episode three of this podcast, like one of the very early episodes, to learn more about it,

learn how it began the story of it and how you could do one to if you wanted, or you can just

go to Nancy Raid.com slash contentment challenge to get some free resources. If you feel

like, you want to learn more. Today, I'm going to share

with you the value of doing this, the value of giving up something in your life that's easy and

convenient and even good to challenge yourself. And specifically, the value of the contentment

challenge this year and what I learned

this time around.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray episode 110.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Listen in.

So I want to open this episode with a couple of responses I got on Instagram during the contentment challenge.

We were all about halfway through when I asked a few people how it was going.

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