Today, you don’t make anything.

Welcome to Day 1. There’s no task, no tool to try, nothing to produce.

You listen.

I know that’s an odd way to open a thirty-day challenge, and I want to tell you why it’s built like this rather than asking you to trust me.

Every other day this week asks something of you.

Your eyes on Day 2, when you go out and find the evide…

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Today, you don’t make anything.

Welcome to Day 1. There’s no task, no tool to try, nothing to produce.

You listen.

I know that’s an odd way to open a thirty-day challenge, and I want to tell you why it’s built like this rather than asking you to trust me.

Every other day this week asks something of you.

Your eyes on Day 2, when you go out and find the evide…

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