IRLA Pack: Reading

Take our reading challenge and reward yourself with IRLAs You like books. You love books. You want to read more books. The most difficult part of a reading challenge must be finding the time. Reading for pleasure, even reading for enrichment, is supposed to be fun, but too often that stack of books starts to look too much like homework. For adults, your reading challenge is probably motivation. You're too tired. You're not too tired, but you want to relax and just watch movies. You want to relax with a good book, but your e-reader also has email and messaging and you need a digital detox. Even a short summer reading challenge for kids can meet the same resistance -- no time, more TV, more games competing for their attention. Turn reading from a chore into a contest with yourself. When it comes to reading challenges in 2022, 2023, and beyond, we think every reader is a winner. Set your reading goals and give yourself our IRLA Reading challenge medal! What are IRLA challenge medals? Our line of In Real Life Achievement awards, or IRLAs, lets you set goals in a variety of interests and reward yourself for milestones on your way to total mastery. IRLA challenge medals are visual reminders of the challenges you've faced and defeated in your quest to be the best version of you that you can be. See all our IRLA challenge medals. What reading challenges must I complete? Reading challenges should be fun, but they also should push you outside your comfort zone. Your goal is to make reading a bigger part of your daily life. Read a nonfiction book Read at least 1 chapter a day for a week Read a book cover-to-cover in one day Read a Pulitzer Prize-winning book Read a book a month or 12 books in one year Can I make my own reading challenges?  IRLA challenge medals are for everyone! If you've already completed some of these reading challenges, make your own, like: Instead of reading a nonfiction book, read five in a row. Read five nonfiction books on the same subject, like World War II or Abraham Lincoln. Read five nonfiction books by the same author, like Doris Kearns Goodwin or Stephen Ambrose. You set your own goals. We help you achieve them. Are there more IRLA challenge medals for art and entertainment? We've got more than our IRLA Reading challenge medal to build your mind. If you see yourself more as a film critic than a book reviewer, take our movie watching challenge with IRLA Movie Watching. See why the pen is indeed mightier than the sword with IRLA Drawing and our drawing challenges. Our IRLA challenge medals make fantastic gifts for adulting, to break grownups out of their routines by encouraging them to try something new that they might not try on their own. Are there IRLA challenge medals for physical fitness? Our IRLA Running challenge medals put you on track to run farther, faster, with more endurance, for better performance in virtual races and virtual runs. Our strength challenges in weightlifting in IRLA Strength Training are terrific for bodybuilders using strength training to gain weight. IRLA Hydration challenges you to drink more water, ending in a 30-day water drinking challenge that will help you develop habits to stay healthy for life. And IRLA Weight Loss gives you the motivation you need to take on your weight loss challenge and take off unwanted pounds. Health and fitness are your responsibility as an adult. IRLA challenge medals make great gifts for the adulting life, when friends and family need that extra oomph to get off the couch and get back in the swing of things. Can IRLA challenge medals make me a better game player? Run through dungeons and haunted asylums for tabletop game challenges in IRLA Tabletop Games. Prefer the zombie apocalypse or webslinging superheroes? Play our video game challenges for IRLA Video Games medals. Will IRLA challenge medals help me with motivation? Need motivation to get out and do something? IRLA Get Out There challenges you to make connections, like starting a conversation with a stranger or taking a class. IRLA Better Your Community rewards you for your contributions to your community, like shopping locally and donating blood. (It makes a great adulting gift, too!) IRLA Unplugged challenges you to a digital detox by putting down your mobile devices and baking sweets, reading a good book, or going for a hike. IRLA Treat Yo Self issues your self-care challenge with rewards like new clothes, massages, and more. Do IRLA challenge medals make great gifts for adulting? Why is adulting so hard? Complete mundane tasks with IRLA Adulting, like filing your taxes. IRLA Early Achievers recognizes the challenge of doing things you haven't done before, like reading multiple books or performing acts of kindness. IRLA Millennial Life makes a terrific gift for adults learning technology like social media and apps. How do I start my IRLA challenges? When you accept our IRLA challenges, you receive a box of four minor challenges and the last major challenge for the complete set. Use your phone to scan your Introductory IRLA and get our IRLA app, where you can track your progress and compare your goals with a like-minded community. Open each IRLA as you complete your challenges! How can I show off my IRLA challenge medals? You can show off your IRLA Reading challenge medal in its own stand, use multiple stands to display all the minor running challenges leading up to it, wear your challenge medal in a necklace, and wear any (or all!) of your minor challenge medals, too. How many IRLA challenge medals are there? What do you want to experience, achieve, track, or improve? Choose your challenge awards! Diet and Exercise Hydration -- Drink more water to meet different water challenges and stay hydrated. Running -- Run farther. Run faster. Strength Training -- Lift more to develop your muscles and stay flexible. Weight Loss -- Get awards for sticking to your regimen and losing weight. Gaming Tabletop Gaming -- Let's play! Tabletop Gaming (Travel) -- Let's play on the road! Video Gaming -- Let's play with a screen and headphones! Art and Entertainment Drawing -- Master these drawing challenges to develop your artistic side. Movie Watching -- Watch a movie. Watch lots of movies. Reading -- Read a book. Read lots of books. Gifts for Adulting Adulting -- You're all grown up. Congratulations. Get an award for all the dumb grown-up stuff you have to do now, like filing your taxes and setting up a 401(K). Early Achievers -- You're growing up and you're doing it right. Do a kindness for someone, ride a rollercoaster, go to the dentist, and more. Millennial Life -- You are the future. Get 100 Likes on social media, use a rideshare app, and more. Motivation Better Your Community -- Do nice things for your neighbors and neighborhood. Bag some trash, donate blood, shop at a local small business, and more. Get Out There -- Go outside and explore your world. Take a class. Go somewhere you've never been before. Start a conversation with a complete stranger. Treat Yo Self -- It's our self-care challenge (inspired by Tom and Donna from Parks and Recreation). Get a massage. Buy new clothes. (And more!) Unplugged -- Start your digital detox by hiking with friends, baking bread, reading, and more.