Try something new for 30 days Matt Cutts

a few years ago I felt like I was stuck

in a rut so I decided to follow in the

footsteps of the great American

philosopher Morgan Spurlock and try

something new for 30 days the idea is

actually pretty simple

think about something you’ve always

wanted to add to your life and try it

for the next 30 days it turns out 30

days is just about the right amount of

time to add a new habit or subtract a

habit like watching the news from your

life there’s a few things that I learned

while doing these 30-day challenges the

first was instead of the months flying

by forgotten the time was much more

memorable this was part of a challenge I

did to take a picture every day for a

month and I remember exactly where I was

and what I was doing that day I also

noticed that as I started to do more and

harder 30-day challenges my

self-confidence grew I went from desk

dwelling computer nerd to the kind of

guy who bikes to work for fun even last

year I ended up hiking up Mount

Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in

Africa I would never have been that

adventurous before I started my 30-day

challenges I also figured out that if

you really want something badly enough

you can do anything for 30 days have you

ever wanted to write a novel every

November tens of thousands of people try

to write their own 50,000 word novel

from scratch in 30 days it turns out all

you have to do is write sixteen hundred

and sixty seven words a day for a month

so I did by the way the secret is not to

go to sleep until you’ve written your

words for the day you might be

sleep-deprived but you’ll finish your

novel now is my book the next great

American novel no I wrote it in a month

it’s awful

but for the rest of my life if I meet

John Hodgman at a TED party I don’t have

to say I’m a computer scientist no no if

I want to I can say I’m a novelist so

here’s one last thing I’d like to

mention I learned that when I made small

sustainable changes things I could keep

doing they were more likely to stick

there’s nothing wrong with big crazy

challenges in fact they’re a ton of fun

but they’re less likely to stick when I

gave up sugar for 30 days day 31 looked

like this so here’s my question to you

what are you waiting for

I guarantee you the next 30 days are

going to pass whether you like it or not

so why not think about something you

have always wanted to try and give it a

shot for the next 30 days Thanks

you