A Simple Plan for the Next 30 Days
The question now is: what happens tomorrow? Your 30-day action plan answers that. It is a simple, day-by-day plan of small actions in 4 phases, one week each.
Momentum Is Easier to Keep Than to Restart
A 30-day plan protects your progress. You do not need to do something huge every day. You need to do something small, consistently: 30 to 60 minutes of focused practice, building or applying. Small actions add up much faster than occasional big efforts.
And remember, as we said throughout this course: no plan can promise a job, a client or a specific income. What a plan does is make sure you keep growing, keep showing up, and keep moving towards your next opportunity.
4 habits that keep you going
What Each Week Looks Like
Week 1, Practice: short exercises in your main skill. If you chose customer service, you might write replies to new scenarios or build an FAQ. If you chose social media, you might study brands' pages and design posts.
Week 2, Build: turn practice into new portfolio pieces, then add them to your portfolio and CV.
Week 3, Apply: use your Lesson 25 plan. Search, check for scams, connect on LinkedIn and send tailored applications with your starter kit from Lesson 28.
Week 4, Improve: look at your results, ask for feedback, fix one weak area, and plan the next 30 days.
At the end of every week, you do a short review using these 4 questions.
- 1. What did I complete this week?
- 2. What was hardest, and why?
- 3. What did I learn, or what feedback did I get?
- 4. What is the one most important thing to focus on next week?
Generate Your Personal 30-Day Plan
Complete Your Final Project
- AI assistant: a set of useful AI prompts for your chosen business or person
- Content: three social media posts (design and caption)
- Content plan: a seven-day content calendar (Lesson 19)
- Customer service: five response templates (Lesson 23)
- Marketing: one simple marketing idea (Lesson 20)
- Portfolio: all of the above combined into one organised document
Lesson 29 Assignment
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Generate: Create your plan with the generator. Use Prompt 1 to personalise any days that do not fit your situation.
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Save: Copy your plan into a Google Doc called "My 30-Day Action Plan" inside your Digital Career Starter Kit folder.
- 3
Schedule: Create a daily repeating event in Google Calendar for your chosen time, and a weekly review every Saturday.
- 4
Partner up: Choose an accountability partner and agree on a Friday check-in. Use Prompt 4 for your first message.
- 5
Final project: Check every part of the final project list and submit it as instructed by the academy.
You Have Built Your Digital Foundation
Start Day 1 of your plan tomorrow. Share your wins, big and small, with the Go Digital With Dee community. And if you want to go deeper in your chosen skill, the academy offers specialist courses and one-on-one support for the next stage of your journey.
Thank you for learning with me. I am proud of you. Now go and build your digital future.
- 30-day action plan generated and saved in my starter kit
- Daily time block and Saturday review scheduled in Google Calendar
- Accountability partner chosen and first check-in agreed
- Final project completed with all 6 parts
- Day 1 starts tomorrow
Lesson 29 Student Workbook
Launch Your 30-Day Plan and Finish the Course
Part 1: Create Your Plan (25 minutes)
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Use the generator in the Trainer Script tab. Click "Copy plan as text" and paste it into a new Google Doc called "My 30-Day Action Plan."
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Read every day. If a task does not fit your situation, use Prompt 1 to replace it with something better. Fill in Part A and Part B of the workbook.
Part 2: Schedule and Partner Up (20 minutes)
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In Google Calendar, create an event called "Digital practice" at your chosen time. Click "Does not repeat" and change it to "Every day." Set it to end after 30 days.
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Create a weekly Saturday event called "Weekly review" with the 4 review questions in the description.
- 3
Message a classmate or friend using Prompt 4, and agree on a Friday check-in.
Part 3: Final Project (30 to 45 minutes)
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Open your portfolio from Lesson 24. Check it against the 6-part final project list in Step 5.
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Add anything missing. Use Prompt 3 to create your AI prompts section if you have not done so yet.
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Use Prompt 5 for a final review, then submit your project as instructed by the academy.