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Day 9 and my busy week begins! Today I’m on the road to Midland Texas and back to San Antonio. A nice long drive. But one I’ll get a chance to listen to podcasts, audio books, and to just think.
I enjoy being on the road, interesting people, interesting food, interesting things I haven’t seen or experienced before. Even-though I’ve driven these roads more times then I can count, I’ll still find something cool I haven’t seen before.
My current 75 Hard Challenge is to complete all ten of these things a day:
- Do the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
- Workout
- Do a Post and Podcast here
- Snap In
- Work on creating content on my side hustle for at least 30 minutes
- Track my Time from Off the Clock by Laura Vanderkam
- Slow Carb Diet from The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
- Drink One Gallon of Water
- Drink Two Protein Shakes
- Two Social Media Posts
I’ve been giving my why behind each one individually on different days. Today I’ll tell you about number 6. Track my Time. Off the Clock was the last book I finished doing the original challenge. It was the usual do more in less time and have a great life. That seems to be every self help book these days. So I know I’m not the only one that wants to be more productive these days.
This book had a little different take on it. While I’ve heard be off when you are off and work when you are at work, this one was about adding that off the clock time to your schedule frequently. I like the idea of those times that I have no place to be and have the time to just be. Letting the clock and time slip by without a care.
The writer of the book not only gave an outline of how to get there, by actually scheduling time, but also an outline on making time move more slowly in those times you enjoy the most.
As I get older, time just slips away and the only thing I can say for sure is that I’m getting older. But looking back I’ve done a bunch of cool things in my time and I bet you have too.
So she suggests keeping a time log, or tracking your time in half hour intervals. So I started a spread sheet of the things that happen throughout the day so I can look back at least once a week and see those great times I’ve had and relive that memory a bunch to keep time from slipping away.
It’s starting to work, I think. The problem is that I can’t do the scientific method here to see if that is the one thing that is working or it’s something else in my 75 Hard Challenge. I just know that better things are happening and more fun things are happening to me. And now I have a log of the things I’m actually doing and having fun at.
My wife found out and wasn’t too thrilled that everything is on the log so I can’t share it here. But I do enjoy the log. It’s still one of those things that isn’t great to do in the moment but, when you look back at it, it makes my life better.
How about you? Is there something you could do now that would make your life better? Is there a little thing that you don’t like doing in the moment but in the long run it makes you and your life better?
Yeah, I keep finding lots of things that are like that.
I know this challenge is one of the greatest things that is hard in the moment but make me better in the long run.
Can you complete the 75 Hard Challenge? Are you doing it already? Do you think you can?
Get out there and do it!
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam