#1: At MetLife, to understand the customers and their financial and health needs holistically, you will continuously gather insights year-round, which helps to develop new products and evolve how you deliver customer service. Find someone 80 years old or older around the area. Take some time to chat with them, listen to a story they may have about Naperville, or just ask them about their life. Then at some point take a video of your team asking them the question “What is the most important thing we should do in life?”.

And since yesterday was National “Cheer Up The Lonely Day” (it’s true, look it up), at some point after this adventure click HERE to learn about how loneliness in seniors can be as hazardous to their health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and how a simple interaction like what you’ll do for this challenge can change that.

#2: The Chicago area has created some legendary music and bands over the years, and fans from this area never hesitate to get behind the groups they love. This challenge will help you continue to “get behind” some iconic artists, literally. Get your team to Purple Dog Records here in town and take a fun picture creating “SleeveFace” illusions with any album sleeves that are conducive for creating this effect. To learn what a SleeveFace illusion is and to see some examples click HERE. Please note this location is only open until 6pm so plan accordingly.

#3: Get your team to any of Naperville’s iconic covered bridges. Once there, go halfway across the bridge and take a video of your team all working together to complete the Group Sit & Stand Challenge. 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 butt on the ground, and then slowly stand back up while remaining interlocked. To watch a video of a group successfully completing this challenge click HERE.

#4: Research shows that consuming raw garlic can boost your immune system. So to keep your team healthy, take a video of all your team members each chewing a separate raw clove of garlic for at least 10 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.

#5: Take a video of your team successfully completing the Whipped Cream Catapult Challenge (click the link at the end of this description to see it performed properly). 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.

#6: Take a picture of your entire team all completing the yoga "Boat Pose" while any boat, paddleboard or kayak that is on water is visible in the background. Although there are a few variations of the Boat Pose, work together as a team to all be balancing with your feet and hands off the ground at the same time. To watch a quick video on how to perform the Boat Pose click HERE.

#7: To build anything great, whether that’s a business like MetLife or a city like Naperville, requires great leadership and people working together. Scattered around the city 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.

#8: While working at MetLife you have likely used Scotch Tape for just about everything. Well, except this. To honor this incredibly versatile American-made product take a fun team picture after everyone uses Scotch tape to stretch and distort their faces to the extreme. For some inspiration click HERE.

#9: Naperville has lots of places where people are honored with their engraved names. There are memorial walls, bricks, benches, etc. Find any memorialized inscription around town that honors someone with the same first name as any of the four Beatles members (doesn't have to be spelled exactly the same). Once you’ve found it take a close up team picture while you point to the engraved name.

#10: Take a video of your team completing "Stop, Drop, and Roll" while any regulation/operable fire extinguisher is visible in the background. Be sure to yell each step of the fire safety technique as you all do it together and make sure the fire extinguisher is clearly visible at some point in your video.

#11: Whether you’re working as a team in the office to meet a critical deadline or exploring Naperville on a hot day like today, those that tend to have the most success are the ones who can keep their cool! Find any fountain around the area (the decorative kind, not one that you’d drink out of). On your way there get each team member their own store bought bottle of water. Try to get ones from a convenience store that came right out of the refrigerated shelves so that they’re really cold, as opposed to a bulk package from a grocery store which would be room temperature. At the fountain take a memorable team picture right at the moment when each team member pours the cold bottle of water over their head. Whether you have someone take the picture for you, or you use a timer on your device, work together as a team to try and snap it right at the moment the cold water is pouring onto your heads.

#12: This past Friday was National “Be A Kid Again Day”. To take a break from your adult responsibilities and celebrate the care-free mindset of a child get your team to Hugo’s Frog Bar and locate the statue of the frog outside the restaurant. Then recruit at least one stranger nearby and take a video of your team and the stranger playing a quick round of Leap Frog in front of the frog statue.

#13: Click HERE to see a small portion of a mural located here in town and then work together to find it and get to it. Once there, take a fun group picture right up against the mural while each team member poses exactly like the figure they are standing/sitting in front of. To make it even more fun, you could have someone first take a picture of the section of mural you’ll be standing in front of, and then have your team move into position and have them take a second picture while everyone on your team is mimicking their poses.

#14: With all of the tragedy and sadness that has happened across the country recently, including here in the suburbs of Chicago, it’s important to try and do things that show love for one another. Find a postcard that features this area in some way, or a unique greeting card, and purchase it. Then click HERE to go to the Postcard Happiness Project website and scroll down to the profile for John Craig, an adult with Downs Syndrome from Oregon that loves to receive mail. On your card include a fun or uplifting message and sign it with your names or your group name. The mailing address for John can be found in his profile description. Take a team picture with your signed card to show you’ve completed your Act Of Kindness, and then after the event or along the way stamp your card and drop it in the mail to bring some happiness from here in the Chicago area to someone all the way across the country.