{"id":13054,"date":"2015-06-30T21:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/jenniferehrhardt\/?p=115"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:57:20","slug":"challenge-detroit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/challenge-detroit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"“Challenge” Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe but my time with Challenge Detroit is quickly winding down – much to my dismay.\u00a0 This past Friday was our last Leadership Friday and we spent some time reflecting on what we had gained from the program.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately and I keep thinking back to my first blog on Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone<\/a>. \u00a0I wrote about how this group of people, who had been complete strangers just a few hours earlier, had encouraged and assisted me with stepping outside of my comfort zone.\u00a0 As I think back on these past 10 months, I realize that they have never stopped supporting and pushing me.<\/p>\n

I would say 85% of my being doesn\u2019t really care for change; it\u2019s the other 15% that brought me to Challenge Detroit. \u00a0Since the whole point of the program is to create change, I clearly should have realized I would be surrounded by a bunch of people who are constantly challenging the status quo. But I\u2019ve always been a rule follower and assume that there must be a logical reason for why something is the way it is. \u00a0I mean what\u2019s so terrible about driving your car 2 miles<\/a>, and why can\u2019t we do the presentation the same way we did it the last 5 times<\/a>? \u00a0This year has taught me the importance of not getting stuck in a routine.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to say that I\u2019ve completely embraced change but it\u2019s something that I still find difficult.\u00a0 However, I have learned that you should ALWAYS surround yourself with people who live for making change. \u00a0They push you outside your comfort zone, challenge you to think differently, and make you grow in ways you didn\u2019t know were possible.\u00a0 I am a better person than I was 10 months ago because of this opportunity, and even though we\u2019ll all be traveling down different paths after Challenge, I know that I can reach out to any of these change agents years down the road and within 15 minutes (tops) they will be challenging my thoughts and forcing me to step outside my comfort zone.\u00a0 For that, I am grateful.<\/p>\n

\"Challenge<\/a>

Challenge Detroit Year 3 Fellows<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe but my time with Challenge Detroit is quickly winding down – much to my dismay.\u00a0 This past Friday was our last Leadership Friday and we spent some time reflecting on what we had gained from the program.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been doing a lot of reflecting lately and I keep thinking back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}