The Thirty Day Challenge Journey

This is the theme of a thread started on the 30DC forum.

This is someone new to the 30 Day Challenge who has gone through all the lessons, has installed and configured all the apps and wants to know…well, I’ll let him put it in his own words…

I was wondering if there was any advice from past participants on ways I could use my spare time to prepare, outside of what has already been covered in the tutorials

I can guarantee you that this is not the experience that most people are having with the 30DC — and it’s in no way typical. In fact — it’s the first time I’ve heard this question! (Although I’ve heard some people say that they’d like Ed to go faster.) So if you don’t find yourself with a surplus of free time — don’t worry! You are in the vast majority — along with me!

And here’s an important “meta” lesson: there are lessons going on all the time. Not just the formal “pre-season lessons.”

But even the pre-season lessons are taught on multiple levels — there is something in the lessons for EVERYONE. It’s difficult for me to imagine that someone could go through each tutorial and not learn something … including veterans.

Notice?

Notice what the 30 Day Challenge veterans are doing?

Many of them are sopping up every single bit of Ed that they can find — all the formal lessons; Ed’s weekly sessions, and running off and finding even more Ed.

Now the poster on the forum thought maybe it would be good to go off and learn about SEO and PPC.

That would not be a good move. Because whatever he learned, it wouldn’t be what Ed taught — or what Ed is teaching, or what Ed is going to teach. It’s easy to chomp at the bit, wanting more, more, more.

The answer, as one of my teachers, John Carlton, would say — is by “going deep.”

Remember I said that Ed is teaching at many levels?

Well –so as to not blow away the newbies, some of the more advanced lessons are not being taught explicitly. You kinda have to “read between the lines”.

I would also say that Ed is (imnsho) teaching some deeply moral lessons.

About living (family) and enjoying life (playing guitar) and being a “good person” (giving back) and even making a better world (form teams).

(And a lot about Macs. If Ed needed the money, he could hit Apple up for an Aussie Evangelist postion, I think.)

What do you do when you have, and have the ability to make, so much money that money no longer is the primary issue?

Clearly, one of the answers to that is by “giving back.”

But you don’t have to have achieved Ed’s success to “give back” — or to give at all.

Each of us have things we can contribute — and, in the spirit of building the community, that contribution is important.

Yes, all those lessons — you can learn some great stuff from Robert Cialdini’s “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.” You can learn them as “tactics”. But they work a whole lot better when they permeate your life and your business — and where you become, like Jay Abraham says in his “Strategy Of Pre-eminence” — your client’s trusted advisor.

I’m thinking that some of the newcomers might benefit from some of the lessons from TDC 2007. For instance, lessons about using the forum.

And someone created a nice mindmap of the 2007 Challenge — I’ll be posting a link here in the blog…so stay tuned!

(And….feel free to comment, and feel free to click that big orange button up there and sign up for this blog’s RSS feed. And/or you can sign up to my “TDCLite” list here I’m going to be setting my RSS feed to go out to my list — so you may not need to sign up for the list — unless you want to get some of the additional gems and late-breaking broadcasts (that are more wordy than I can fit into my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nextday )

And, if you are new and haven’t quite figured out what you do when you click the orange button — be sure to check out the new lessons Ed has put up — the 3 part “lesson 6″ — on Google Reader.

If you haven’t joined the fun yet…you can start right now by going here!

‘Til next time –

Live JoyFully!

Judy Kettenhofen

NextDay Copy

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