This second challenge week went well, too. Once again, I expected to have more trouble forgetting the challenges that I chose for myself, but I did not have much of a problem with it. As a recap, this week I added shutting off the lights when exiting a room. I also continued my challenge from the first week, which was unplugging my electronics. There really is not much I could or should do differently (so far) regarding my challenges or how to remember them better. The posters from class that hang on our room doors help quite a bit with remembering the challenges as a whole. In other words, rather than reminding me specifically what my challenge is, they help me to simply remember that I have a challenge I should be following. Once again, I did not learn much about myself aside from the same things as last week.
Next week I will continue the challenges from the first two weeks — unplugging electronics and turning the lights off when exiting a room — and I will be adding the challenge of walking everywhere instead of riding the bus (or carpooling if the destination is not on campus or within a reasonable distance). I expect this coming week’s challenge to be more difficult than the past two weeks simply because I sometimes rely on the bus to get me to class on time when I am running late for an early morning class.
After updating OROECO, I found that I would now save 600 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year and $48 per year if I were to continue turning off the lights.