Thirty Days

Challenge yourself to try something new for 30 days. Track your progress with the Thirty Days app.

Challenging yourself by trying something new for 30 days can change your life. Working on the same task every day builds skill and self-confidence and you won't believe what you can accomplish if you spend a bit of time every day working.

Consistent work has been the secret to many great creators careers.

Jerry Seinfeld has credited his success as a standup comic to practicing daily comedy writing. He hangs a calendar on his wall and uses a big red pen to cross off each day where he spends time writing. His goal is to NEVER BREAK THE CHAIN.

National Novel Writing Month periodically challenges writers to spend a month focusing on writing. At the end of the month, people are surprised to discover that they have actually managed to write a novel.

A well-executed 30-day challenge works because it has a beginning and it also eventually ends. You're not committing to doing something forever... just for a month. A month is a manageable, tangible amount of time. You could spend your next month exploring your childhood French-Horn playing dreams... or you could sack yourself out in front of the TV in the evenings...

A 30 Day challenge helps you beat procrastination. You define up-front what success means for you. 'I will spend 30 minutes writing each day!' You set yourself up to win. Showing up for 30 days and writing is the success so you can stop worrying about how you're not a good writer or how you'll never write a masterpiece. You have a goal and a timetable and 30 days will go by before you know it.

Here are some 30-day challenge ideas you might want to try out --

Start a fitness challenge. Download a 30-day fitness video course and see if you can get through the whole thing in a month.

A writing challenge. See if you can write your thesis paper or that story you've had rattling around in your head for the past several years.

A business challenge. Commit to working on your business every day for 30 days. Maybe you even want to incorporate some measurable goals -- 'contact X customers' or 'publish X articles'.

What about a creative challenge? Learn to draw in 30 days... or code... or study linear algebra... what about Chinese?

Study a subject you've always wanted to study -- linear algebra interest you? What about environmental economics?

30-day challenges can also help you change habits. You could do a 'no ice cream for 30 days' challenge... or a 'make your bed every day for 30 days' challenge.

You could spend 30 days with no TV or no Facebook on your phone and see how it changes your life.

The possibilities are endless.

So you're convinced? You have some ideas for a 30-day challenge of your own you'd like to try? Then go ahead and download the Thirty Days app.

The app will help you track your 30-day challenges on your phone. Imagine that wall-calendar Jerry Seinfeld was talking about... but on your phone. That's the Thirty Day challenge app.

You can create a challenge and then check off each day as you complete it. That's it. Simple.

All your data is stored online for you so if you lose your phone or break your phone or get a new phone or whatever you can log into your Thirty Days account and your challenges (and historical challenges) will all be there for you.

It's free to try, so go ahead. Download the app and set up your first challenge today.