Travis Gates, Author at Whole Life Challenge https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/author/travis-gates/ The Game That Changes Your Whole Life Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 How the Whole Life Challenge Taught Me Impulse Control https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-taught-me-impulse-control/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-taught-me-impulse-control/#respond Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:20 +0000 https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=6879---f2918ac7-cc84-43cb-91d3-b670a998e03e Over the years and through trial and error, I’ve discovered the ways in which I move best through this world. I now have blanket policies that instruct me to avoid intense math at all costs, refrain from engaging in political posts, and resist correcting my friends’ grammar via text.

Thanks to my many shots at the Whole Life Challenge, I’ve also learned that I need accountability to control my impulses and stay in my healthy-eating lane.…

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]]> Over the years and through trial and error, I’ve discovered the ways in which I move best through this world. I now have blanket policies that instruct me to avoid intense math at all costs, refrain from engaging in political posts, and resist correcting my friends’ grammar via text.

Thanks to my many shots at the Whole Life Challenge, I’ve also learned that I need accountability to control my impulses and stay in my healthy-eating lane.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-taught-me-impulse-control/feed/ 0 How the Whole Life Challenge Got Me Pregnant https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-got-me-pregnant/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-got-me-pregnant/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:00:01 +0000 https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=5461 The founders of the Whole Life Challenge, Andy Petranek and Michael Stanwyck, got me pregnant.

I mean, my wife had a baby because of them.

This explanation isn’t going as I’d planned. Let me try again.

I attribute the birth of our son to the Whole Life Challenge. Andy and Michael weren’t there for any of it, but they probably helped.…

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]]> The founders of the Whole Life Challenge, Andy Petranek and Michael Stanwyck, got me pregnant.

I mean, my wife had a baby because of them.

This explanation isn’t going as I’d planned. Let me try again.

I attribute the birth of our son to the Whole Life Challenge. Andy and Michael weren’t there for any of it, but they probably helped.…

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]]> https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/how-the-whole-life-challenge-got-me-pregnant/feed/ 5 My Body Dysmorphic Disorder Got Better Thanks to the Whole Life Challenge https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/my-body-dysmorphic-disorder-got-better-thanks-to-the-whole-life-challenge/ https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/my-body-dysmorphic-disorder-got-better-thanks-to-the-whole-life-challenge/#comments Wed, 25 May 2016 09:00:39 +0000 https://www.wholelifechallenge.com/?p=5168 Let me start this by saying: I’m fine. I don’t want my friends and relatives to read this and say “I had no idea!” and then send me a card or start a prayer chain on Facebook.

Everyone has struggles. Luckily for me, mine aren’t debilitating. One of these struggles is just a trait I’ve learned to live with in my thirty-plus years on this spinning orb — but living with it became much easier after participating in the Whole Life Challenge.…

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]]> Let me start this by saying: I’m fine. I don’t want my friends and relatives to read this and say “I had no idea!” and then send me a card or start a prayer chain on Facebook.

Everyone has struggles. Luckily for me, mine aren’t debilitating. One of these struggles is just a trait I’ve learned to live with in my thirty-plus years on this spinning orb — but living with it became much easier after participating in the Whole Life Challenge.…

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