100 Days of Trailhead

Some of you might have heard of it, but there is a group of awesome people who a couple of times a year run a #100daysof challenge focussed around Salesforce. As I have quite some ambitious targets I want to meet early in the year, I decided I needed some way to be pushed and held accountable.

Hence, I signed up to #100daysofTrailhead. It is a rather simple but effective concept. You register. And then you plan to spend 1 hour per day on learning and building your skills. They encourage you to tweet about it. And they have a tracker so they can follow your progress.

This all starts on the 1st January 2021.

So what is my plan. Well 3 main focus areas, more will be beneficial.

1. Service Cloud Consultant Certification
   Not only a want but a need as I am getting requests to do Service Cloud training. Already been doing some studying and badges. Still a bit to go.
2. Sales Cloud Consultant Certification
   A nice to have that has been on my list for a couple of years. Time to stop procrastinating and get the cert done
3. 4x Ranger Status
   I am at the writing of this post on 344 badges. So if I do 1 badge a day I will get there, with some spares.
4. Get at least an extra 2 Superbadges
   There are a couple on the list for the Consultant Trailmixes so I should be able to do them
5. Field Service Lightning Consultant
   This is my bonus one. If I have the time, I want to get this done during the 100 days too. Or at least start the work so I can complete it shortly after

No pressure as you can see. But also not impossible to get to. To make sure I keep on track I am going to do the following:

• Put time out in calendar and dedicate what I do at that time (study or which badge)
• Every Monday do a weekly planner and hang this up on the wall next to the kitchen. This is the most obvious place in the house and see it a lot during the day.
• Set up a reward system – have to decide what yet. But the plan is for a weekend treat (like fancy dessert) if I stick to the week plan. And have to do something bigger for the certs. Ideas are welcome!

So that is the plan. It is written down now. Time to have one more day of relaxing and then time to start.

#100daysofTrailhead -> https://100daysoftrailhead.com/ for full details on the challenge