What Will You Change in the Next 31 Days?

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You can do a lot of things in 31 days. This is amplified if you focus those 31 days on improving one area of your life. By focusing in on one thing you want to change or do, and making it a priority for 31 days, you will make lasting life changes.

During the next 31 days you could:

  • learn a new skill
  • lose weight
  • create a new habit (getting up early, exercising, etc..)
  • start a new business
  • put in massive action on your current business
  • read several life-changing books (see my top ten book list)
  • start, improve and grow your blog
  • reinvigorate your marriage
  • dramatically increase your website’s exposure
  • start a debt free plan
  • simplify your household possessions
  • conquer a fear

Naturally the list keeps going. You can do so much in 31 days.

Guess what?

August is about to start, and it has 31 days!

What are you going to do in August?

The Success Professor’s 31 Day Challenge

During the month of August, this blog will be hosting a challenge. The challenge is for readers to pick something to focus on during the next 31 days to change your life.

The concept is pretty simple:

  • You pick something in your life that you want to do or change in the next 31 days.
  • You share in the comments of this article what you will change as part of the challenge
  • You get started and do what you set out to do
  • You report back how you are progressing

Throughout the month, this blog will feature several update posts. These will be opportunities for you to post your update and record your progress and challenges. The purpose is to provide you with the motivation and the accountability to make a change, to do something important and to make the next 31 days extremely valuable. Further, during each of these updates, I will profile one participant by sharing about their goal and experiences.

What I Will be Doing For the 31 Day Challenge

Naturally, I will participate in the challenge myself. My focus for this challenge will be to make improvements to and grow this blog. I will be following the guide book created by ProBlogger, Darren Rowse, called “31 Days to Build a Better Blog.” My hope is that you will notice the difference. I hope that you will see me in more places on the internet, and that many others will join us in this community. I will use the challenge updates to report on my progress as well.

If you are a blogger, you may want to join me in using the 31 days in the Success Professor’s 31 Day challenge to improve your blog. Pick up the ProBlogger workbook and comment below. There will be an optional email list set up for the people who are working towards a better blog this month. This will provide an extra support platform for this goal.

So what’s next?

Pick the one thing you will change, improve, or do in the next 31 days.
Share what you will work on in the comments below.
Get started!

The Success Professor – Danny Gamache
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 7:21 am and is filed under 31 Day Challenge, Blogging, Goal Setting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “What Will You Change in the Next 31 Days?”

  1. Shawn says on July 29th, 2009 at 11:07 am :

    Great topic and challenge Danny! Saw something similar from Robin Sharma just recently.

    My challenge will be similar to yours – to fully use the online tools (blog, social media, forums etc) available to me to promote Rallysport.ca and myself. I’ll track (and plan it) on a calendar with a goal of increasing the numbers of visitors to the site.

    Thanks
    Shawn

  2. Kyle says on July 29th, 2009 at 12:02 pm :

    I’m with you, Danny. Thanks for the encouragement!

    A goal of mine that has been festering on the back burner is to revamp my blog. I’m going to pick up a copy of the ProBlogger workbook and hit the ground running on August 1st.

  3. Kaizan says on August 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 am :

    Hey, I just stumbled on this blog! Looks great!

    I love these 30 -31 day challenges. it’s long enough to make a real difference in your life, but short enough, that you don’t feel like it’s overwhelming.

    I recently finished a 30 day challenge on eating better. It was great!

    Now I’m thinking of my next challenge!

    Look forward to reading more of your blog…

  4. The Success Professor » Blog Archive » Mid-month Report – 31 Day Challenge & Participant Feature! says on August 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm :

    [...] the start of August, many readers of this blog joined me as we launched the Success Professor’s 31 Day Challenge. The basic premise of the challenge is that you can do a lot in 31 days by focusing in on one area of [...]

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