BetterU Challenge Winners!!

Congratulations to all of us for completing the challenge!  It was a busy 9 weeks filled with daily exercise, devotional reading, serving others, enriching our homes and spending time with family members.  We also tackled our finances, made to-do lists, spent time doing family history, meditated, prepared for the unexpected, and challenged our brains doing puzzles!  What an enriching 9 weeks!

The Overall Challenge winner with 645 points is Erin! 

Erin will receive $100!
 

The winners and runner-ups for the three individual categories are:

Physical

Erin and Cindy - 189

Brad - 185

John - 181

Spiritual

Cindy - 189

Erin - 187

Carin and Amy - 185

Family

Erin - 189

Cindy - 188

Heather and Joan - 186

Cindy and Erin will receive $50 for each of their wins in each category!

** A notable event unique to this challenge:  The overall winner didn't have a perfect score.  We think that is a perfect end to our BetterU Challenge!  Life isn't about being perfect; it is about trying to be your best self every day. **

“Our responsibility is to rise from mediocrity to competence, from failure to achievement.  Our task is to become our best selves. One of God’s greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.”  Thomas S. Monson Never Give Up Sept 1994

Final Week Blog Discussion

OK, I know this seems cliche, but I think it's important for us all to write what we have gotten out of this Challenge.

So, please share:  What has the Better U Challenge done for you?  Has it influenced your life?  Made you think about things differently?  Have you noticed strength where you didn't see it before?

On a personal note, I want to thank each of you for participating in the first annual Schnegel U Challenge!  It has been such a great experience to work with you on this!  Thank you, thank you!

Weekly Reward Winner - Week 8 and our LAST reward - Week 9

Boys vs. Girls

Week 8's Challenge was the boys against the girls.  To keep it fair the average of the 6 boys' scores were averaged against 6 randomly chosen girls' scores.  The girls chosen by the random generator were:  Carin, Emily, Heather, Joan, Rachel, and Christene.  After averaging the scores the winner is:

Boys!

The girls averaged a 50.3 for the week and the boys averaged 54!  Way to go, guys!  You'll each receive 2 bonus points!

The top winner for the girls was Joan and Erin and the winner is:

Joan!

The top winner for the boys is:

John!

You've each won a $5 gift card to a place of your choosing!  Let me know and CONGRATULATIONS!!   

Week 9 - Final Reward

The rewards for this week will be the overall challenge winner and the top winners from each category (Spiritual, Family, and Physical).  We are in the home stretch!  Finish strong!

      

FINAL WEEKLY WILDCARD-- sorry it's late.

Brain Power!!

Ok, everyone.  For our last Wildcard, we have to get to

Play a Brain game for 10 minutes every day!!

So get out your Crosswords, Sudoku, Scrabble,

Brain teasers, etc.  And

Have Fun!!!

 

Week 8 Blog Discussion

Areas of Health:  For Future Better U Challenges

We are nearing the end of our challenge, and want to know how the challenge has suited you so far.  In this post, please let us know what areas of health you would have liked to address.  (Please save all praise and appreciation for the next post! -hee hee.)

So far, we have addressed the following areas of health:

-Caloric intake

-Physical exercise

-Strength training

-Devotional time for Spiritual growth

-Meditation

-Service to others

-Awareness of Family

-Home Improvement

-Family History

-Healthy Finances

-Setting goals ahead of time

-Preparing for the Future

-Building our Brain power (oops. spoiler alert. that's next week's challenge!)

PLUS all the personal goals you chose to do on your own!  We have accomplished a lot over the last 2 months.

So, what could have made it better?  Sound off.  We promise, NO points will be removed for honesty.  Only for snarkiness.

 

    

Week 7 Reward Winner

Last week's reward was to choose a random day and the person that scored the most points on that day wins a $5 gift card!  The random generator chose Sunday and these are the people that had the most points on that day:

Joan, Christy, Ed, Cindy, Jamie and Erin

  And the random generator chose:

Jamie!

Congratulations!  Let me know where you'd like to get your gift card from!  Great job, everyone!

 

Week 8 Weekly Challenge and Weekly Reward Challenge

I can't believe there are only 2 weeks left in our Challenge! Ok, there's a lot of information in this post!

Weekly Challenge


Prepardness!  This can be in many different forms.   You can work on your 72 hour kits, food storage, 3 month food supply, copying important documents and storing them properly, etc.

On Monday, write a list of preparedness things you need to take care of.  Break it down so the things on your list only take 5 - 10 minutes to do.  Each day for the rest of the week, cross something off.  Here's an article with some great information:

http://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/advice/emergency-preparedness/

Weekly Reward Challenge

This week we are having a competition of BOYS vs. GIRLS!  Now, there are more girls than boys, so here's what we're going to do.  At the end of the week we're going to pick 6 random girls and average their scores against the 6 boy scores.  Each member of the winning team will receive 2 bonus points (all of the girls will receive the bonus points even if they aren't one of the random 6 that are picked - if the girls win) and 1 top scorer from the girls and 1 top scorer from the boys will each win a $5 gift certificate!  We will have a drawing in case of a tie.

Be sure to check the blog tomorrow for last week's weekly reward winner!