06 Jan #30LESSONSFROM30S #LAST30DAYSOF30S Days 1-5
Welcome to #30LESSONSFROM 30s
Hello and thank you for checking out this project. This is Tony Esteves on a 30 day challenge. The challenge is to post a new video with a lesson that I learned in my 30s on this website every day until I turn 40. That’s how it’s come to be know as the “Last30DaysOf30s” project.
I took this challenge on as a very experienced professional speaker – Vince Poscente – recently challenged a bunch of us to use more video in our businesses. I love 30 day challenges so this started. It has indeed been quite a challenge until this point but also a great deal of fun. It turns out that I will have attracted an additional 1000 + views to my YouTube channel by the end of all of this, and I think that’s pretty cool.
I hope that you enjoy the videos and the lessons that you will find here and if you do, please feel free to share or subscribe on the right side of this page for monthly updates.
Many thanks,
Tony Esteves
- Days 1 – 5 please click HERE.
- Days 6 – 10 please click HERE.
- Days 11 – 15 please click HERE.
- Days 16 – 20 please click HERE.
- Days 21 – 25 please click HERE.
- Days 26 – 30 please click HERE.
January 11, 2014 – Day 5 – Create unexpected connections.
This afternoon I had the pleasure of attending a party for a friend of mine who had just moved into a new place. The lively atmosphere reminded me of how many connections happened for me during my 30s in such social situations.
It’s a pretty simple concept. If you spend time with people, you learn what they are about, you find out what you have in common, and the opportunity to move each other forward personally or professionally is created. This is what I call the power of unexpected connections. Check out this short video to see more.
Today’s lesson?
Create unexpected connections.
Thank you for watching.
January 10, 2014 – Day 4 – Invest in yourself.
Thank you for checking out this blog. I’m delivering a different message from my 30s every day for 30 days and today’s lesson comes from a CAPS meeting. (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers).
At the time of the creation of this video, the room was a buzz because we had just enjoyed the first part of a superb presentation from a world class innovation catalyst, Toni Newman. She electrified us with a ton of useful innovation information that was tailored to the room full of professional speakers. As the current President of CAPS National, I shouldn’t have been surprised to be so impressed. Her presentation reminded me and supported the message that I’d like to share now.
I’m here today because I’ve invested in myself. I’ve joined CAPS in a learning capacity at this time by taking their Fast Track program. This teaches emerging speakers more about the business of professional speaking. Early in the course, I can say with great confidence that this program is going to leave me a much better version of myself and with fanatical focus about what I will do with my speaking career.
Today’s lesson?
Invest in yourself!
January 9, 2014 – Day 3 – %10 through the 30 day challenge!
Today I found myself talking about love at the top of the Calgary Tower. But not love in the romantic sense. More so as it relates to how we take care of ourselves.
Parts of my 30s were rushed with a lack of balance between work and life. Now at the end of this decade I think I’ve got greater control over this and feel that it’s a message worth sharing.
Thank you Luna Ivana for your unknowing and serendipitous contribution to my video today. Your words matched my thoughts perfectly this morning.
Today’s lesson?
Love yourself.
January 8, 2014 – Day 2 – Do What You Love To Do.
Today we took the day off and headed to Lake Louise for some inspiration in the mountains. It was a stunningly beautiful day where we talked about how revitalizing it can be to take time for yourself during this busy life.
Don’t you find that you are more productive during the following days after doing something for yourself? Try it! And let me know the results.
There is an earlier post on this from last year in my blog. But for now, please enjoy this short video from Lake Louise Alberta.
Today’s lesson?
Do what you love to do.
Thank you for watching.
January 7, 2014 – Day 1 – Done is Better Than Perfect.
Welcome to my 30 day challenge! As I will turn 40 in a month, I’ll post a new video here every day for the next 30 days including this video from today. This was shot in the beautiful Devonian Gardens in the Core shopping centre in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Each video will include a lesson that I learned from living through my 30s.
Today’s lesson?
Done is better than perfect.
I hope that you enjoy. See you tomorrow.
January 6, 2014
Coming very soon! (as in tomorrow)
Here I will be creating and posting a 1 minute video every day for the next 30 days! These 30 days mark the countdown to the end of my 30s. As I’ve seen a few things and done a few things along the way, I thought I’d have some fun by sharing a little more video about my personal and professional experience to my blog and to celebrate the countdown to the big 4-0. 30 day challenges are fantastic, though challenging. More about this project can be found on Twitter with #30LESSONSFROM30s and #LAST30DAYSOF30s.
Please subscribe on the right of this page or check back regularly. I’ll be doing some fun stuff here this month, honest.
- Days 1 – 5 please click HERE.
- Days 6 – 10 please click HERE.
- Days 11 – 15 please click HERE.
- Days 16 – 20 please click HERE.
- Days 21 – 25 please click HERE.
- Days 26 – 30 please click HERE.