Kicks Challenge #2: Do something out of your comfort zone

Yesterday morning I put my shoes on backwards by accident and started to walk with my left shoe on my right and vice versa. I thought about switching them back but decided instead to go with the flow and see what it’d be like to go the whole day with my shoes on the wrong foot.

I walked to the coffee shop in the morning and must have passed a dozen people on the way. To my amazement not a single person commented or noticed. For lunch I walked to Primo’s for a hoagie and spoke to a number of people in the shop, just hoping one of them would look down and question me. Again, nobody noticed that I had my shoes on backwards.

I realized that sometimes when you walk in a different shoe people don’t always notice. It may be uncomfortable to walk in another shoe, it may look silly and feel strange, but when you do things the same way every day without ever wondering how it feels in another shoe, you sometimes forget that you even have feet. But when you do switch it up you realize that not only do you have feet, but without them things would be pretty uncomfortable.

So, the second Kicks challenge is to step outside of your comfort zone and realize how important the things are in life that we sometimes take for granted. For some that step might be literal, as in literally walking around in backwards shoes. For others it may be using your left hand all day if your right is dominant.

It doesn’t really matter what you do so long as in stepping outside of your comfort zone you will highlight something that perhaps you forgot was there.

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Afghanistan Soccer Ball Project a Success!

The Afghanistan Soccer Ball give was a huge success, and what an appropriate Independence Day project! The Kicks Project donated a number of soccer balls to Lieutenant Corporal Billy Holdsworth stationed in Helmand Province to distribute to local Afghan kids with the purpose of creating trust and good-will. We started the project about 2 months ago, but packages move slowly in Afghanistan and we had to break the boxes down to manageable sizes so that they get to their destination (large packages are often stolen at the post office or in transition) and with the help of the Rotary Club of Collegeville, we were able to successfully ship 10 packages of soccerballs to LtCpl Holdsworth’s unit.

LtCpl Billy Holdsworth has just returned home from his tour of duty and we are happy to have him state-side. He will be giving a presentation to the Rotary Club next week so we’ll be sure to post photos from the event.

Happy Independence Day everyone!