Challenges and Contests

Like some of the others around here, I am doing the 100 hub challege. For some, its the 30 hub challenge and for me, its the 100 challenge. Come check it out at this link: 10 or 30 Hubchallenge.

It really is not insane. Doing something like this is actually great thing to do. I know you are going to tell me that I am crazy, but let me explain why I feel this way. It is only human nature when it comes to wanting to compete for a goal. In this case to have 30 or 100 new hubs within 30 days. Its all about challenging yourself and trying to go outside of the box in a sense.  These kind of things get your blood pumping and you are ready to do what you set out your mind to do.

It is possible if you think to yourself, nothing changes but trying to create quite a few great hubs. I have some experience when it comes to that anyways. Before I came onto hubpages, I had started with squidoo and every quarter they have a giant squid challenge. This is the reason why I probably have more lenses there than I do have hubs. Within 3 months of being with squidoo, I had 60+ lenses. I didn't make it the first time around as they were not good enough at first and most people do not usually make it the first time around. Some do, some don't. So instead of trying to make it within 3 months of joining, I made it in 6 months. At the same time I am doing this, I am also going for giant squid for my second account along with going for giant 100.  The thing is about that program is that they are very big about quality and quantity together.  It can happen if you work hard at it.

Going for 100 in 30 days is quite a lot, but how in the world are you going to make it through it all? Some people will think this is hard, but I have my own little plan. I am going to try to write 5 per day. More is even better. If you write 5 hubs per day, you have room to work with so that you are not pushing it at the end.

I also suggest in between writing hubs to take a break. Breaks are good. Go do something else. Write on another site, watch television and so on. The key to getting through is to have fun.

Writing 30 hubs to me is really not a big challenge. When I do write here, I can write 2 or more hubs.  You can write one a day and get through the challenge.

The most important this is to have fun. That is what challenges and contest are about. They are forcing you to do more than you would otherwise do. If you didn't have something like this, where would you be in a month from now. In fact if this goes well, I probably would suggest to do something like this at least once a year. Its a real good thing and it can be a win win situation depending on how you look at it.