I'm doing the 30 Day Challenge again this year. It's a free Internet Marketing course, teaching how to make a dollar online within 30 days, although this year it's how to make $10 within 30 days. It's run online by Ed Dale who sold his niche websites, that he set up from scratch, for $5 million in 2005. Go and sign up!
As with any course or challenge, I suffer badly because of my learning difficulties. Whenever I got stuck I'd have panic attacks and felt total despair. I think a lot of people just thought I was being melodramatic, but when I failed a second time last year I got quite depressed, as so many people were able to keep up.
Then came the 'Google slap' which meant all the stuff already taught, was now turned on its head. If I'd just kept going, I might have been OK. (Actually now, I know that my niche was rubbish to start with). But the main problem was I was getting bogged down with, and taking way too long just signing up for stuff, and registering for new and unfamiliar sites and tools.
I often get OCD and perfectionist about these, and feel I need to know the ins and outs before I have enough confidence to use them on a regular basis.
I always panicked in the past when I was told I need to register with such and such a site, because I've always worried that I don't have time to do the things I do find familiar, let alone the things I don't.
But I should have had faith because Ed tells us all the easiest way to do it, based on his own experiences. And actually signing up with new sites isn't really a big deal. What's the worst that can happen? You bugger up your login and have to start again! I was too over cautious.
Last year, I also got totally hung up on RSS feeds (I just couldn't understand them for ages and bought two very long ebooks on RSS feeds), and tending to the Skype call needs of my team. This year, I'm sticking with two reliable 30 Day Challengers who have lots of patience with me, Pauline Trabert and Asbjorn Riedel.
I'm not going to get distracted by reading every post on the forum (my biggest mistake on the first year 2005)
And as the videos are streaming this year, I don't think you can download them to your PC, which means if I get left behind, I won't be able to catch up in my own time, so I HAVE to keep up!
The great news is that this year, Ed has put a lot of the signing up and downloading stuff into the "pre-season" which has been going on all this week. I guess it's like getting all the ingredients together before starting. Previously, we did all that within the 30 Days, and for me, I had to go through a learning curve with each one.
So far I have downloaded add-ons, signed up to several sites, and updated several pieces of software, and touch wood - I've been fine! Fingers crossed I'll manage to do it this year.
Despite having my PC in pieces this morning, I still managed to watch all Ed's videos so far, sign up on Digg.com, download the 'Stumble Upon' toolbar and register at the site, update iTunes, update Firefox, download del.icio.us and create an account.
I also had to buy the local free ads paper, as when I turned my PC on this morning, it sounded like an engine revving (the reason I took it apart and cleaned both fans) so I'm after a 2nd hand XP laptop because I want a backup PC incase this one blows up in the middle of the 30DC! And I don't want to convert to Windows Vista just yet - not until most software is compatible with it.
Wish me luck!
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