What is the 100 Day Project?

According to The 100 Day Project website:

“#The100DayProject is a *free* global art project that takes place online. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. Anyone can participate. The idea is simple: choose a creative project, do it every single day for 100 days, and share your process on social using the hashtag #The100DayProject.”

This creative challenge was started by artist Michael Bierut as a class project for his students at Yale!. Elle Luna brought the project to Instagram in 2014 and Lindsay Thomson started to co-lead the project with her in 2017. The 100 Day project is a great way to help you push through any sticking points and Achieve your biggest dreams. The basic premise is simple – commit to 100 days of focused work on a specific task or goal.

This could be anything from starting a new business to Learning a new skill. The key is to focus on one task or goal and block out all other distractions. It's a challenge to do something creative every day for 100 days. 100 days may seem like a lot, but it's actually not that long when you break it down into smaller chunks.

The project is designed to help you break your big goals down into manageable tasks that you can accomplish every day. It's a way to focus your energy and build momentum so that you can achieve your goals sooner rather than later.

How can the 100 Day Project Help You Achieve Your Goals?

If you're finding it difficult to stay focused and motivated when it comes to your goals, the 100 day project may be the perfect solution for you. So how can the 100 day project help you achieve your goals? Here are three ways:

1. The 100 day project breaks your goal down into manageable tasks.
2. The 100 day project builds momentum so that you can achieve your goal sooner rather than later.
3. The 100 day project helps you stay focused and motivated so that you can achieve your goal.

If you can do something every day for 100 days, you’ll develop the habit of doing that thing. With this project, you focus on one day at a time.

Steps to Completing the 100 Day Project

The project is a challenge to do something creative every day for 100 days. You can choose your own project or use one of the provided prompts. The project is a great way to push yourself and see progress. It can also help you build new habits and learn new things. And it can help you achieve your goals by providing a structure to help you stay on track.

The project can be tailored to any goal, so it's a great way to work on anything from improving your health to learning a new skill, how to improve your memory, concentration and focus. It’s important to choose to do something you’re passionate about, because when you face resistance, your passion will help you to push through.

Don’t make it too complicated. Think of something you can easily do every day. Do you want to write a book? How many pages can you commit to writing each day? Break down your project into steps you can take every day. That’s how you’ll complete it.

What to Do When You Reach the End of Your 100 days?

When it comes to setting and achieving goals, time is often our biggest enemy. The 100 day project is a challenge to help you overcome that by breaking your goal into manageable chunks and doing something towards it every day for 100 days. Whether it's writing a page a day of your book, working out for 10 minutes each morning, or learning a new skill, the 100 day project can help you achieve anything you put your mind to.

The idea of completing a 100 day project is to take action every day. This is the key idea behind how to keep the momentum going. When you complete the 100 day project you'll have developed the habit of sustained productivity – something that will serve you well for the rest of your life. It's a great way to develop habits and make it easier to sustain your learning, productivity, and creativity. It can be used as a stepping stone for longer projects or as a way to force yourself to take action.

Pick another goal you want to achieve and continue working towards that goal. The 100 Day project is a way to show that you are serious about achieving your goal. By following the rules and challenging yourself, you will be able to set goals that are achievable and won't leave you feeling defeated when the time comes for them to be completed.

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My Experience Participating in the 100 Day Project

I’ve completed the 100 day project three times and at the writing of this post, I'm on day 15 of my fourth time. Looking back at my first two times, I realized that I was trying to be someone I wasn’t, I tried to make what I was doing very artistic, and that didn’t work. In addition, I thought there would be a community where we liked and supported each other’s ‘art.’ That didn’t happen for me. Every day, I searched for the hashtag on Instagram, liked and supported other people’s projects. But the favor was never returned.

The third time around, I decided I wouldn’t try to be artistic, just do something I was good at. So every day, I wrote five big ideas from books I’d read. People supported my posts, but not people who were participating in the project. By this time, that was okay with me. There were many people who genuinely appreciated what I was doing, and saw the value, because they were introduced to new books.

This time around

Before I started the 100 day project for the fourth time, I attended their question and answer session on Instagram. The light bulb went on for me. I learned that your project could be generative. It’s the first time I started thinking that it could help me to achieve my goals.

I have a membership site, the Art of Learning. At the end of the year, I’d like to have 2000 subscribers. But that won’t happen without a certain amount of content. So this time around, I decided to read books that I could turn into Bookish Notes for my membership site. A Bookish Note has a book summary, discussion questions, book groupings, big ideas, key insights and takeaways.

The way I broke down the project is based on the following courses  I want to create.

1. 30 days of leadership development.
2. 30 days of career development
3. 40 days of business development.

What I realized

I allowed my ego to get in the way. It’s about service, not about how many people supported the post. I also realized that I needed to step up in a very big way. Right now, people are loving what I’m doing. But they haven’t seen anything yet because I’m capable of so much more.

So I commit to going back to basics and making sure I include a lot more books that are off the beaten path. And I have to make sure that what I offer in my status updates can help others. I can do this while achieving the goal I set for myself to create the courses for the Art of Learning.

I have a document where I have a list of the books that I want to read. And a lot of these books are very good books that are off the beaten path. But there are still quite a few of them that you’d recognize because at some point it seemed like everyone was reading them. These books will help me to achieve several goals, and what I release will help others as well.

Next Steps

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2. Join the Art of Learning Membership Site

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