There’s something I’ve noticed over the years about the people who start a course or a certificate in the middle of the summer.
They’re serious.
Most of our students start in January or September, when the cultural energy carries them. Summer starters don’t have that wave. They’re starting in a season most people are scaling back, and they’re doing it anyway. That tells me something about what’s driving them before I ever see their work.
CFTEA sends quarterly reminders to students who haven’t completed their courses. We find that summer starters rarely need more than one. They started with a plan. The reminders are a courtesy, not a nudge.
I worked at a financial institution years ago where employees would begin a three credit course in July as part of an eighteen month program. Many of them were finished before Thanksgiving. Not because they were overloaded or burned out. Because they’d built their learning into the quieter rhythm of summer, used the slower work pace deliberately, and kept the end of the year free for family.
That’s the part I keep coming back to. Starting in summer doesn’t mean stealing time from your life. It often means giving it back.
If you’ve been thinking about getting going on something, this is the kind of month it was designed for. You still have five months left in the year. Enough to make real progress without it being overwhelming.
The Effective Communication Bundle is 15% off through July 31, if that’s where your starting point would be.
To Your Continued Success,
Andrew