Want to Shake Up Your Life? Try 10 Days Without….
Want to Shake Up Your Life? Try 10 Days Without….
Daniel Day’s new book, Ten Days Without is an extraordinary lesson in life, discomfort, love and change. If you need to shake up your life in order to get unstuck, read the book. You will never put your coat on the same way.
Several years ago, Daniel decided that he wanted to give shoes to children who didn’t have any. So, like any clear-thinking person, he decided to live without shoes for 10 days. Then, he asked friends to support him by donating shoes to needy children. He collected dozens of shoes for poor children and then had another idea. The children needed coats too.
So during a Colorado winter, Daniel decided to collect coats for them by, you guessed it, going 10 days without a coat. His children watched him get in his car during snowstorms with only a shirt on. When I asked Daniel about the experience, I was struck by his enthusiasm. Yes, he froze, he said, but not in a way that made me feel badly for him but rather in a way that made me want to try it. Why? Because I heard something in his voice that made me realize, the experience changed him. And I wanted to change too.