Ruthie Searcy gives a first-person testimonial about participating in the "Do The Thing" challenges. She describes them as transformational—helping participants discover needed changes from within via short "dares"—and emphasizes the strong community bonds and friendships formed, including an in-person meetup that felt like a homecoming. She contrasts these challenges with typical courses that lack ongoing peer connection and follow-through.
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Hello, everybody. So I just wanted to come on here and share real quick what I love about the do the thing challenges.
For one thing, they're very transformational. A year ago, for you to ask me to give an opinion and especially go on a Facebook Live to do it, I don't know. I do know. Would not have done, would have felt like too much. So here's the thing. Like, I'm sure all of us have bought programs and webinars, courses and all the things, right? And the reason that we do that is because we are looking for some kind of a transformation. Typically, it doesn't really matter what kind of course or program it is. We're trying to transform our health or our mindset or our knowledge of tech or whatever it may be, right?
And so we do, we buy these programs anticipating that when we take it at the end of it, there's going to be some kind of change that shifts us forward. And that is sometimes true, right? People can teach you new things and you may implement them or you may not, or you may implement part of it and there may be a shift in the transformation that you were looking for. The difference with the do the thing challenges is, at least for me.
Some there's, it's not a teaching, let me talk to you and share my knowledge with. There's an element of that, right? But doing the challenge itself is it allows us to go inside ourselves to find out what's needed for the transformation we seek, right? The dares are designed to get us to think about things that we may not slow down and think about on a daily basis and really get into our own.
Emotions, thoughts, feelings, all of those things in order to find the answer we're looking for within ourselves. And in conjunction with that, there's a whole community of people that are doing the same thing, right? How many times have you been on a program, a course, a webinar, and you don't even after it's done?
And maybe this is not true for everybody. This is my experience. After it's done, you're like, cool, that was great, see you later. Bye. You don't hear from the person who hosted it until the next thing happens. Or maybe you get a couple of follow up emails, right?
You don't.
You'Re not in a space where you can really.
See here.
Get to know the other people who attended the same thing. And so there's like, okay, that's cool, that was done. And you maybe, like I said, maybe implement it, maybe not, and life moves on. And here in this space in the do the Thing challenge space.
It'S completely different because everybody is.
Doing the same thing that you are. Right? And what I know from just having done several of these.
You get to know people. You get to. Even though their story may not be exactly the same as your story, there's. What I've learned most, is that we are more alike than we are different. Right. In just about every video I've watched something that somebody has said, I'm like, oh, I can understand and relate to that. Right? Maybe not like I said in the exact same situation, but the universal truths that come through from doing these challenges resonate with everybody. And that's why we can support and encourage each other, because even though the path we walk is different, the journey is a lot the same, right? And you get to know people on a deeper level. You get to see and hear and join in with them. I've had an opportunity to meet several people in person. And.
Being introverted, I was very nervous about that. But when I stepped off the plane and one of the people was waiting there at the gate.
I was like, oh, there's my friend. And it's like, coming home, right? And then we found another friend in the same airport. And when we all got to where we were going, it was just like a homecoming. That's what it felt for me, and I expressed that, and that's. That's the difference in the. In the do the Thing community.
And are we gonna bond like that and all of that with everybody? No. But so many wonderful, wonderful friendships and connections have been formed in here that you just don't get in any other kind of challenge or program. So that's why I love being here.
There's a lot of learning, and we move fast. And thankful for that, because that's my. I'm a learner at heart, but I'm also so thankful for the connections and friendships that have formed along the way as well.
