#1: DXP is proud to embrace Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) as a guiding strategy for how to do business. This includes a core focus on recycling and re-use because DXP believes that a low carbon world requires everyone to be part of the solution. To honor DXP’s commitment to the environment, anywhere around the area find a canister of some sort that has the triangular recycling symbol on it. You are looking for an actual recycling disposal can, where someone would get rid of recyclable materials, and not just any product that has the recycling symbol on it such as a plastic bottle. Once you’ve found one, take a picture of your entire team all completing any variation of the "Tree Pose" while the canister with the recycling symbol on it is clearly visible in the background. To view a picture of someone properly performing a variation of the Tree Pose click HERE.

#2: Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy one final gift as a team. Wrap any one member of your team from head to toe in toilet paper (or multiple team members if they want to get in on the fun) leaving as few gaps as possible except around their nose/mouth so they can breathe easily. Then take a fun team picture with your newly wrapped co-worker and at some point throughout the process have each team member state one reason why the person being wrapped is a “gift” to DXP or to them personally.

#3: Yesterday was National Bird Day (it’s true, look it up). To celebrate the diverse avian wildlife that help make Laguna Beach so beautiful, anywhere along the way, take a picture of your team with just ONE real-life bird of any species. If there is a group of them all together then you'll need to work together as a team to corral just one away from the flock so you can take your picture with it.

#4: Get every team member a large (16 ounces or so) open-top paper, plastic, or foam cup and fill it with water. Then somewhere outdoors, line up shoulder to shoulder and balance a full cup on each team member’s head. Once everyone’s cups are balanced, hold hands with the team members on either side of you and take a video of your team working together to all take 10 steps forward without anyone touching their cup or having it spill. If someone’s cup spills make sure to encourage them and then refill any spilled cups and start again as a team. After your team successfully travels 10 steps together dump the cups to prove they were full, and celebrate!

#5: In order for DXP to be successful, employees in California and across the US need to work closely with one another and communicate clearly. Get to any location around town where the California state flag and an American flag are flying next to each other. Then take a video of your team working together to complete the Group Sit & Stand Challenge while both flags are visible in the background at some point. Basically, your team members will all be standing shoulder to shoulder in a tight clump/circle with your backs all facing in and your arms interlocked. Slowly lower the entire interlocked group to the ground until you are in a seated position with your butts on the ground, and then slowly stand all the way back up while remaining interlocked the entire time. To watch a video of a group successfully completing this challenge click HERE.

#6: Get your team to any beach area and using drift wood, seaweed, or other debris spell out the name "DXP" as large as possible in the sand and take a fun team picture with your creation. In a competitive event like this if you value time over cleanliness you can instead choose to have everyone from your team lay down in the sand and spell it out using your bodies. The larger the better so feel free to recruit willing strangers to help you create a DXP logo that can be seen from space!

#7: Find a postcard that features this area in some way, or a fun greeting card, and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Love For Our Elders website and their letter writing project, which is focused on fighting loneliness with love, one letter at a time. As a team, choose someone from their list whose story or background resonates with you. Then on your card include a fun or uplifting message and sign it with your names or your group name. Stamp your card and take a picture with it to show you've completed your Act Of Kindness and then drop it in the mail along the way or after your event ends.

#8: Yesterday was National Whipped Cream Day (it’s true, look it up). To celebrate, take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge. Divide your team into pairs. Have someone squirt a dollop (small lump) of whipped cream onto the back of their hand. Have the other person stand a few feet away from them ready to catch the whipped cream in their mouth. The person with the whipped cream on their hand will swing their arm back, palm down. When that hand gets back in front of them at about waist height, they’ll strike their wrist with their other free hand, causing the whipped cream to go flying. The second person should successfully catch the whipped cream in their mouth, or at least catch some of it in their mouth and the rest on their face. To complete this challenge at least half your team should make a successful catch in the video. To understand the challenge better and to watch a video of a team successfully completing it click HERE.

#9: Many Orange County residents probably have at least some sense of the major military presence in the area during World War II. The massive blimp hangars in Tustin are hard to miss, and both the Great Park and the county fairgrounds celebrate their military heritage to some degree. Anywhere around the area find an active military person or a veteran. They could be wearing some form of military or veteran attire, have a military ID, or they could simply describe their military background while you’re completing your challenge. Once you’ve found someone, take a video of them watching your entire team doing 10 push-ups or sit-ups at their feet to honor their strength and courage. After you’ve finished recording, spend a few minutes learning more about their time in the service before you depart, as a small gesture of appreciation.

#10: Employee Wellness is an important part of making sure DXP can not only operate smoothly, but thrive. Research shows that consuming raw garlic can boost your immune system. So take a video of all your team members each chewing a separate raw clove of garlic for at least 15 full seconds. Team members should be actively chewing the clove and not just holding it in their mouths. Disclaimer, although healthy this will likely not be pleasant, which is exactly the point. Because a team that suffers together, grows together.

#11: For more than 100 years DXP has been providing quality products and services that exceed it’s customer’s expectations. In order to achieve that requires every employee to be detail-oriented and hyper focused. This challenge will test your ability to notice some of those kinds of details, even while you’re surrounded by lots of distractions. Take a team picture with any parked vehicle that has a license plate which contains numerical digits that add up to 10, no more, no less. So if the plate were "CF2H 5K3" it would be acceptable because those numbers add up to 10 and there aren't any additional numbers.

#12: The original Orange County Airport began as a private landing strip, built in the 1920s by aviation pioneer Eddie Martin on Irvine Company land. In 1923, Martin founded a flying school and Martin Aviation, one of the nation’s oldest aviation firms. To honor this area’s role in advancing human flight, take a video of your team completing the "Paper Airplane Challenge". Basically send some team members to the 2nd level of any building or parking garage and have them toss paper airplanes out into the air in front of them (not just dropping it straight downward). The rest of your team should be on the sidewalk or grass below. Any of your team members at ground level need to catch just one plane before it hits the ground. All team members at ground level can be attempting to catch planes, but only one plane needs to be caught. To watch a team complete this mission successfully click HERE.

#13: Wildfires are among Orange County’s leading disasters because the terrain is prone to brush fires in the hot summer months when vegetation is dry. In California, there are more than 2 million properties at high to extreme wildfire risk, the largest number of properties of any U.S. state. To honor the brave firefighters that protect this county, take a video of your team completing "Stop, Drop, and Roll" while any regulation/operable fire extinguisher is visible in the background, or you are standing in front of an actual fire station. Be sure to yell each step of the fire safety technique as you all do it together and make sure the fire extinguisher or fire station is clearly visible at some point in your video.

#14: Get to any clothing or apparel store and find two different items with enough in stock that every team member can be wearing the same two items in their own sizes. Then take a fun team picture with everyone wearing those items. For example it may be a wacky shirt, and a pair of shorts. Or maybe some cozy slippers and a large sun hat. As long as everyone is wearing the same exact two items but in their own sizes.

#15: To build anything great, whether that’s a company like DXP, or a community like Laguna Beach, requires great leadership and people working together. Scattered around the area are a number of statues of humans, many of whom impacted this place in significant ways. Find any life-size statue of a human and take a fun team picture with the statue reacting wildly as if you’ve just met your longtime icon. Then after this event, live each day in a way that will make people want to build a statue of you in the future.

#16: Over the years, we’ve found that the teams that bond the most are the ones that do something meaningful or impactful together. So here is your chance. To honor those, and their families, who are impacted by Childhood Cancer, take a proud team picture showing off your hands once every member of your team has gotten their fingernails painted bright gold (the international color for childhood cancer awareness) using real nail polish. For every team that completes this challenge successfully our company (Team Building Anywhere) will be donating $25 to a local childhood cancer charity called the Friends Of Cathryn Foundation, which was founded by a Laguna Beach family. Read more about this great cause HERE.