Start anytime. Join late. Skip days. No streaks. No need to catch up. No detox.
A challenge to scroll less and live more.
In 100 Days 100 Ways™, you have 100 days to collect as many different screen-free, real-life experiences as you can, from quiet moments to unforgettable memories.
Trade a little screen time for a lot more life.
Start with one way
100 days is not a requirement – it’s a playground! Try one screen-free, real-life experience today. Then see what else becomes possible.
When screens keep crowding out real-life moments, the days can start to feel empty.
Hours pass, and nothing really happens. Days blur. Memories become rarer. Hobbies fade, and relationships thin. At the end of the day, there are few stories to tell and even fewer created together.
100 Days 100 Ways is a simple way to get back what you’ve lost and feel more alive – one screen-free memory at a time.
“My wife and I explored a waterfall. We didn’t take our phones out the entire time, and absolutely loved it. We just talked and listened to nature.”
– Patrick and Inga G.
“I’ve been wanting to learn guitar, and instead of the 5 or 6 hours I usually spend on Instagram, I finally pulled out my guitar and started playing!”
– Sasha M.
Who would you love to make memories with? Invite them to join you.
#100Days100Ways
Who It's For
Solo
Rebuild hobbies, energy, and real-life momentum.
Friends
Try new things together instead of boring digital defaults.
Couples
Create more shared memories, connection, and romance.
Families
Help kids discover meaning and fun that can’t come from screens.
How It Works
Choose a screen-free, real-life activity. Do it. Track it as one way. Try to collect as many different ways as you can.
Get the Starter Ideas
The simple rules
- You can join even if the challenge is already underway.
- Each activity counts once.
- Only one new activity counts per day.
- Missing a day does not reset anything.
- Screens can help you coordinate, navigate, check plans, or capture a memory, but the experience itself should be real-life first.
The goal is not tech abstinence. The goal is to replace some recreational scrolling, gaming, streaming, or digital defaulting with real-life experience.
You might keep a simple list or photo record of your ways so you can watch your real-life experiences add up and build a summer full of memories.
We hope you’ll share your favorite ideas, experiences, and new memories with others so that we can all start living more together!
What counts?
Small things, big things, solo things, social things.
A “way” could be anything from a puzzle, book, meal, walk, creative project, or quiet moment outside to a wild concert, class, hike, game night, volunteer event, or kayaking trip.
Whatever brings exploration, creativity, movement, growth, restoration, or real-life connection – without staring at a screen!
Want ideas and support along the way?
If you want to maximize what you get out of the Challenge, we’d love to share 63 starter ideas, weekly reminders, participant highlights, and simple tips to help you keep making real life bigger than the scroll.
Why 63 ideas, not 100? We want to give you enough ideas to get started while leaving room for your own creativity. The goal is not to follow our list, the goal is to start seeing possibilities everywhere!
Get the 63 Starter Ideas
Plus, until the 100 Days are up, enjoy a weekly Challenge update with:
- fresh activity suggestions
- inspiring participant highlights
- chances to have your best Way featured
- simple tips for replacing digital recreation
- reminders without streak pressure
Questions People Ask
What if I start late?
Start anyway. No streaks. No catching up. Just see how many ways you can collect with the time left.
Do I need to sign up to participate?
No. You can start the challenge on your own anytime. Signing up just gets you the 63 starter ideas, weekly prompts, participant highlights, and support along the way.
What does screen-free actually mean here?
The activity itself should be screen-free. Using a screen to coordinate plans, use GPS, check hours, listen to music, invite friends, take one photo, or share afterward is fine.
What kinds of screen use is this meant to replace?
Recreational screen time and maybe even “productive” screen time that you don’t really want, that brings you down but your brain gets tricked into doing more of it anyway: scrolling, social media, gaming, streaming, TV or movies, internet surfing, checking apps, or defaulting to digital entertainment when you’d really feel better doing something more real, memorable, or meaningful.
How different do two activities need to be to count as two?
Use common sense. Just changing the location usually does not make it a new way. But changing the actual activity can count, even if it supports the same goal. For example, practicing Spanish with a tutor, talking with a stranger in Spanish, playing Hangman in Spanish, and reading a Spanish book could all count as different ways. Repeating things you love is encouraged, but the Challenge rewards exploration.
Can I count productive tasks?
Yes, if they feel like a real-life activity you are intentionally choosing, especially if they are new, unusual, satisfying, creative, or meaningful. Cooking a new meal, building something, gardening, organizing a creative space, or fixing something by hand could count. Routine chores probably do not capture the spirit unless you make them part of a real experience.
Partners
Thank you to our Partners for encouraging screen-free experiences and helping real life feel fuller and brighter.
Interested in partnering for the challenge?
Apply to Partner or SponsorWhy I'm Doing This
As a neuroscientist and brain coach, I think a lot about what helps people feel focused, connected, and fulfilled. And over time, I became increasingly concerned by a pattern I’ve seen in my own life and in the lives of people I care about.
Not just more screen time. Less life.
Technology isn’t the enemy. I use it every day, and much of it is genuinely amazing. But somewhere along the way, more and more of our time started getting taken over by watching, scrolling, and consuming, leaving less and less for actual living.
Fewer adventures, hobbies, and meaningful experiences. Fewer chances to cry with laughter and joy. Fewer evenings that become stories worth telling later. Perhaps most painfully: fewer chances to create stories with someone alongside you. As someone whose own struggles and triumphs have too often gone unshared, that loss cuts me deeply.
That’s why I’m doing this challenge, and why I’m inviting you to join me.
Not to eliminate screens. To rediscover how much life is waiting for us.
— Dr. Dan Lathen
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