October 1 to 31, 2026
Sober October
with friends
How to join the Sober October challenge on Quests, take part with friends, and follow through on an alcohol-free month.
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Guides to building habits with friends: monthly challenges, daily check-ins, and practical ways to follow through.
Sober October
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What Is Quests? The App for Challenges With Friends, Explained
A plain explanation of the Quests app: how a Quest works, what check-ins and streaks do, the five categories, and what is free versus Pro.
Challenges
50 Healthy Challenge Ideas to Do With Friends
Fitness, food, sleep, mind and screen challenges with a one-line rule for each, plus how to pick the one your group will actually finish.
Guide
How to Start a Challenge With Friends That Everyone Finishes
Choosing the habit, writing rules, group size, where check-ins live, and what to do when someone drops. The full playbook for a group challenge.
Challenges
30-Day Fitness Challenge With Friends: A Plan for Beginners
A daily floor everyone can hit, four weekly progressions, rest days that still count, and the rules that get a mixed-fitness group to day 30.
Guide
How to Find an Accountability Partner (and Be a Good One)
Where to look, what to agree on before day one, how often to check in, and what separates partners who help from partners who just watch.
Challenges
How to Run a Step Challenge With Friends
A daily target the research supports, fair rules for different phones and jobs, team formats, and how to keep a step challenge alive past week two.
Challenges
The 30-Day Meditation Challenge: Ten Minutes a Day, With Friends
Ten minutes a day for 30 days: the week-by-week arc, what the evidence actually shows, common ways people quit, and how to run it with friends.
Challenges
The 30-Day No Sugar Challenge: Rules, What to Expect, and How to Finish
What counts as added sugar, the week-by-week arc from cravings to calm, label reading, eating out, and why a group finishes where solo attempts stall.
Challenges
How to Run a Reading Challenge With Friends
Why a daily page target beats a yearly book count, what counts, a discussion format that takes ten minutes, and how to keep a group reading.
Challenges
The 30-Day Screen Time Challenge: Less Phone, With Friends
A limit based on your own baseline, settings that do most of the work, group rules, and what to do with the hours you get back.
Guide
How to Run a Workplace Wellness Challenge People Actually Join
Choosing a habit that fits work, opt-in and privacy rules, pods of four in place of one big group, and a 30-day plan that works for remote teams.
Challenges
75 Hard With Friends: The Rules, the Risks, and a Saner Version
What 75 Hard asks of you, where people fail, and how to run it as a group so the whole crew makes it to day 75.
Challenges
The 30-Day Journaling Challenge: One Page a Day
One page a day, 30 prompts for stuck days, what the expressive writing research does and does not show, and how to share the check-in without sharing the page.
Science
The Psychology of Streaks: Why Not Breaking the Chain Works (and When It Backfires)
Loss aversion, the endowed progress effect, the fresh start effect, and the two ways streaks backfire. Plus how to design a streak you can keep for years.
Guide
Building Habits With Your Partner: Challenges for Couples That Don't Turn Into Nagging
Shared rule, personal targets, and a one-tap check-in. Challenge ideas for couples and the two agreements that keep it from turning into nagging.
Guide
New Year's Resolutions With Friends: Why the Ones You Share Survive February
Why most resolutions fade by February, what the research says about the ones that last, and a January plan for a group of friends.
Tips
How to Keep Your Streak When Life Gets Busy
Travel, illness, deadlines, and holidays end more streaks than laziness does. Here is how to plan for them so one bad day never becomes a bad month.
Challenges
The Complete Guide to Dry January
What to expect each week, how to handle the "just one" moments, what to drink instead, and why the people who finish usually did it with someone.
Guide
How to Do a 30-Day Challenge With Friends (and Actually Finish)
Picking the habit, setting the rules, checking in daily, and surviving week three. A practical plan for a 30-day challenge that your group finishes.
Science
How Long Does It Take to Build a Habit? What the Research Says
The 21-day rule is a myth. The most cited study found an average of 66 days, with a range from 18 to 254. Here is what that means for you.
Science
Why Social Accountability Is the Secret to Lasting Habits
People who commit to a goal with friends finish far more often than people who go alone. Here is the psychology behind it and how to set it up.