Stan Manly Challenge #4

This Stan Manly Challenge challenge involves cursing.

Begin by picking one "curse" word from your vocabulary. If you use the "f-bomb" more than once a month, that is chosen by default. If you don't choose the one that is the most offensive to others. If not, pick a word you wouldn't want your 3 year old to say. If you don't use any of those words, you either are doing really well or you think it is OK for a 3 year old to have a potty mouth. At any rate pick a word and until the end of the month, anytime you use that word you have to do 20 push-ups. By the end of the month, you will either have cleaned up your language, or you will have grown your biceps.

Good luck men!

Stan Manly Challenge #3

This Stan Manly Challenge challenge is aimed at married men. Try to compliment your wife on one thing for three straight days. Not necessarily the same thing, but "I love the way your eyes look when you wear that" or "Thank you for having a hot supper ready for me, you are so considerate" or my personal favorite, "A man as manly as me is lucky to have a woman as womanly as you."

Good luck and post any stories you have.

Stan Manly Challenge #2

This Stan Manly Challenge is to do something extra for which you will get no credit.

This means that you have to do something nice without anyone finding out. It can't be the dishes or laundry or something that the person receiving the favor knows it is you, but just do something kind for another person completely anonymously.

Some ideas:
Pay for someone's meal from across the restaurant.
Pay for the next 5 people at a parking garage.
Pick up a mess left by some careless people on a picnic.
Let someone into your lane of traffic who has been trying to turn in for a while.
Clean up a mess that only you know about around the house.
Mow a lawn, rake some leave, scoop some snow - whatever the case is for a neighbor and do a better job than you do on your own lot.

Stan Manly Challenge #1

This Stan Manly Challenge challenge is in the category of chivalry. It is simple:
Hold the door open for a lady. This can be a door at your place of work, your church, at a store, anywhere. Just watch as you walk into a place for a lady coming in and hold the door for her. Automatic doors don't count. Share any experiences you have in the comments.

Stan Manly Challenges

Men love challenges. All the way back to the time we were in middle school we competed with one another. Simply daring someone was enough to try even the dumbest things. A Triple Dog Dare - there was no backing down.

Now that we are men, we find competition in many things. Whether it is rooting for a sports team, trying to be the best at our job, or even something as simple as trying to be the first off a red light. Manly men love challenges. That brings me to the point of this post. From time to time, I'll post a challenge - straight to you from Stan. You can go ahead and ignore it, or you try to meet it. Feel free to post your results.

These challenges are not only about competition, but they are also about try to become better, more manly men.

Good luck Gentlemen.