Day 5 30DC - A Day of Rest

Strictly speaking, the 30DC is holding at Day 3 until Monday morning. They are giving us 2 days to catch up with the technology and get our lists of niches filled up so that we have a minimum (or whittled down list) of 7 to begin applying process to next week.

It also gives their tech team a chance to boost the server capacity and make sure everyone is able to download the large video files (often 50MB) for the training. Currently, they are serving 1 terabyte of data a day -- somewhat more than what was anticipated. No worries, however, they are able to scale up so all will be right with the 30DC world momentarily.

This also gives everyone a chance to read the multitude of forum posts and wrap their heads around everything that has happened so far. There has been some awesome training, and the synergy on the forum boards is quite wonderful to see. Veteran marketers and 30DC participants from the past 2 years are generously sharing tips and techniques, both for dealing with the technology and clarifying the concepts. They are also showing admirable restraint in not stealing Ed's thunder by revealing any strategies that they already know he might offer.

There is a true sense of community on the forums, and the teambuilding is proceeding apace. Teams of disparate individuals with the most tenuous of connections ("Looking for anyone warm-blooded for a team.") are coming together to form solid partnerships that will pay off later in the challenge.

We're expecting a great deal of activity this upcoming week, but for now, it's a day (or two) of much-needed rest. If you are not taking a day of rest in your business, or your studies, you cannot hope to be as effective as if you had that time to decompress and re-create.

I guarantee that if you build a day of rest into your week, you will find that on the remaining six days, you will accomplish as much, and probably more, than if you had worked flat knacker* the entire seven. The brain needs a chance to assimilate and integrate input -- cognitive correlation, we call it -- so that it can provide you with more valuable output. I always send my students off with the admonition to get some sleep!

And you know, that's very good advizzzzz zzzz zzz zzz zzz zzz...
See also: Beth Buzz: Day of Rest June 25, 2006

* Flat knacker - Australian for working very hard indeed