Making progress with my courses!

I’ve been dreading going through my course notes because they were a lot and very messy. But I’m currently taking part in a cohort-based course called One Big Win, run by David Cain, of raptitude.com, and it’s based on the commitment to break a goal down into 25-min blocks of effort. It’s basically a commitment to use a Pomodoro-like method to make progress with any goal based on focused blocks of time.

David wraps the method in ideas that appeal to my way of thinking (he treats a goal like a quest, with dragons to slay and a treasure to gain). The course is 8 weeks long and I’ve chosen completing my 4 courses as my quest for now. I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so far, but there’s still a lot of work to be done, so I need to make sure I put in my blocks early and often so that I don’t end up struggling to complete the courses at the end of the 8 weeks.

There is an opportunity to adjust the scope of my quest within the course, but I don’t want to give myself a way out. I don’t want to give myself reasons not to complete all 4 courses. I know it’s possible so I want to go with that possibility.

Part of the quest selection is picking a goal that is achievable through effort alone. Completing my courses is achievable. Promoting my courses is within my ability. How well the courses sell relies on external factors, too, so the quest isn’t to make the courses profitable, but to do what’s in my powers. This is a less intimidating goal to pursue, but I know that my ultimate aim is to make the courses profitable and I have to figure out a way to achieve that with the effort (and creativity) I can bring to that quest.

I’ll do some GLL reading now, then back to working on my courses!