You may or may not know that Jonathan has held a long-standing ambition to be a working, professional illustrator. It’s something he has always wanted to do and talked about for as long as I’ve known him – we’re teenage sweethearts and have been together for 15+ years now, so that’s a pretty long time.
He’s had a few goes at it, a few false starts, a few attempts to get it going but for various reasons it’s just never happened (can anyone say “a creative’s lack of self confidence”?!).
But now is the time. Over a nice hot cup of tea a few weeks ago, we decided that this was it.
Actually I decided I’d had enough of him going on about it but never making it and he agreed. And so we both agreed that he would spend the next few weeks really focusing on getting his illustration career going and that this was his final go at it before giving up that ambition forever (although those were my words, not his).
And then we decided that if he was finally going to go for it, why not share that journey and that challenge with others…and so, the 12 week challenge was born!
What It Is
The 12 Week Challenge is an opportunity to make amazing progress towards your goal of creating a life inspired and enabled by your passion. But this time you won’t be alone. Here are a few things we hope to achieve with the 12 Week Challenge:
- Life-changing progress for as many participants as possible
- Community spirit and a collaborative effort to get “there”
- A platform and spotlight for those on the journey with us
Who Can Take Part
Anyone can take part in the challenge!
The 12 Week Challenge is being run across all three of our existing communities at Kinetiva. That includes our Location Independent community, Jonathan’s community for aspiring illustrators at Zero 2 Illo and our community for health & wellness professionals at Vibrapreneur.
So that means if you’re aiming to become location independent, a professional illustrator or a successful health & wellness professional (or a combination of all 3), why not join us as part of the challenge?
How It’ll Work (We Hope)
This is going to take a bit of co-ordination but what we’re hoping to do is this:
- Set a weekly task for all participants alongside recommended resources & tips
- Round-up participants’ progress on each of the relevant blogs
- Generate community spirit and encourage interaction and connectivity on each of your sites & blogs, not just on ours.
What that means is that we’ll be setting you a task to complete each week, asking you to feed back to us and let us know how you’re going (so we can feature you on our sites) and help & encourage other participants by commenting, following, tweeting and promoting fellow participants’ sites and projects as much as possible.
We’ll be walking you through the steps needed to achieve your goals (these will largely focus on the business aspects), sharing our top resources with you and asking leaders in their respective fields to share their top tips with you too. It’s a win-win situation and no-one loses.
What You Need To Do Now
There are a few ways we’ll communicate with you throughout the 12 Week Challenge, so it’s important that you’re signed up or following us on these channels if you want to get all the good stuff:
- The Blogs: We’ll be setting the weekly tasks for each community on their respective blogs, so make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss them.
- The Newsletters: We’ll be sharing extra resources & a monthly round-up to subscribers each of our newsletters so if you want these, make sure you’re subscribed to the relevant newsletter.
- Social Media Profiles: We’ll also be doing shout-outs, sharing extra tips and updates on our social media profiles (Twitter & Facebook), so at the very least make sure you’re following Lea and Jonathan on Twitter.
There are a few other things you might like to do too, which include:
- Mark your calendar now for the start of the 12 Week Challenge: Monday, 5th April.
- Tell everyone you know about it, so they can join in too and change their lives.
- Display the 12 Week Challenge badge on your site to show you’re proudly taking part to change your life…