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Try something new for 30 days - Matt Cutts

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  1. 0:16 a few years ago I felt like I was stuck
  2. 0:19 in a rut so I decided to follow in the
  3. 0:22 footsteps of the Great American
  4. 0:24 philosopher Morgan Spurlock and try
  5. 0:27 something new for 30 days the idea is actually pretty simple think about
  6. 0:32 something you've always wanted to add to
  7. 0:33 your life and try it for the next 30
  8. 0:36 days it turns out 30 days is just about
  9. 0:39 the right amount of time to add a new
  10. 0:41 habit or subtract a habit like watching the news from your life there's a few
  11. 0:47 things that I learned while doing these 30-day
  12. 0:49 challenges the first was instead of the
  13. 0:52 months flying by forgotten the time was
  14. 0:55 much more memorable this was part of a
  15. 0:58 challenge I did to take a picture every
  16. 1:00 day for a month and I remember exactly
  17. 1:03 where I was and what I was doing that
  18. 1:05 day I also noticed that as I started to
  19. 1:08 do more and harder 30-day challenges my
  20. 1:11 self-confidence grew I went from desk
  21. 1:14 dwelling computer nerd to the kind of
  22. 1:16 guy who bikes to work for
  23. 1:20 fun even last year I ended up hiking up
  24. 1:22 Mount kilamanjaro the highest mountain
  25. 1:24 in Africa I would never have been that
  26. 1:27 adventurous before I started my 30-day challenge
  27. 1:31 I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough you can do
  28. 1:37 anything for 30
  29. 1:38 days have you ever wanted to write a
  30. 1:41 novel every November tens of thousands
  31. 1:44 of people try to write their own
  32. 1:46 50,000-word novel from scratch in 30
  33. 1:50 days it turns out all you have to do is
  34. 1:53 write 1667 words a day for a
  35. 1:57 month so I did by the way secret is not
  36. 2:01 to go to sleep until you've written your
  37. 2:03 words for the day you might be sleep
  38. 2:06 deprived but you'll finish your
  39. 2:08 novel now is my book The Next Great
  40. 2:11 American novel no I wrote it in a month
  41. 2:15 it's
  42. 2:17 awful but for the rest of my life if I
  43. 2:20 meet John Hodgman at a Ted party I don't
  44. 2:23 have to say I'm a computer scientist no
  45. 2:27 no if I want to I can say I'm a novelist
  46. 2:33 so here's one last thing I'd like to mention I learned that when I made small
  47. 2:38 sustainable changes things I could keep doing they were more likely to stick
  48. 2:42 there's nothing wrong with big crazy
  49. 2:45 challenges in fact they're a ton of fun
  50. 2:48 but they're less likely to stick when I
  51. 2:51 gave up sugar for 30 days day 31 looked
  52. 2:54 like
  53. 2:56 this so here's my question to you what
  54. 3:00 are you waiting for I guarantee you the
  55. 3:03 next 30 days are going to pass whether
  56. 3:05 you like it or not so why not think
  57. 3:08 about something you have always wanted
  58. 3:11 to try and give it a shot for the next
  59. 3:14 30 days thanks

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