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Today is the second day of the challenge and let me tell you, day one was a barn burner.
The hard part was my diet. We went to my kid’s swim meet that lasts about seven hours. Yes we left at 3pm and got back at 9pm and my wife kept saying how short this one was. My problem is I just didn’t bring any food. My wife’s plan was to eat something there. They had pizza, nachos, and hot dogs. So I got a $2 hot dog and ate it plain, no bun, no condiments, no nothing. It was the worst hot dog I’ve ever had!
So by the end of the meet on the way home I was starving and miserable. I should have know better and planned better. I didn’t cheat, but wasn’t happy. Next time I will make sure I eat before I leave and bring plenty of food I can eat with me.
I’m still suffering from the Saturday night arm wrestling I did at Church for “fun.” It was fun at the time, but now my arms are killing me. Over trained badly, but I won! Now I’m paying for that. Yesterday I still did my workout even thought it hurt and I had to lower the weights down a lot. Today my workout was walking on a treadmill and using the elliptical machine going really slow trying to get blood flowing into the muscles. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow.
I’m still excited to back on track with the challenge. I need something like this to keep my motivation going and keep me working on what should be done. You can take it from a dozen different people, but I relate it to Zig Ziglar and his day-before vacation story. You have a dead line, you have to get things done, and you have a huge immediate goal to shoot for. So you make a list, you come into work early, and maybe work through lunch and just get everything done that needs to be done.
I need that immediate goal to shoot for to get those long term projects done. So that is my why right now on doing another 75 Hard Challenge. The first one gave me the skills to set up my life to push the ball down the road. Now I’m setting things towards my needs.
I picked 10 things so I could really get things done I want done. My 10 Things:
- 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
Everyday I’m going to talk about one of my individual things. So starting at the top of the list, do the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod every day.
The Miracle Morning is a way to start your day the right way. Hal uses an acronym SAVERS to spell out what to do: Silence, Affirmations, Visualize, Exercise, Read, Scribe. I altered this a little and here is my morning:
- Wake up and get a protein shake
- Read 10 pages of a non-fiction self help book
- Read 10 pages of a book related to my side hustle
- Read blogs for 10 minutes on motivation and my side hustle
- Meditate for a minute (Silence), and yes I suck at meditating so I’m going slow
- Read Affirmations, I have a list of things including my lifes’ goals that I read through
- Set up my day in my calendar and visualize doing every thing and enjoying it
- Journal: I use an open note book and The Five Minute Journal
- Lastly, I stretch, because I’m getting old.
I use to use a little different version of this over the years. It’s one of those things that when I do it completely I have a better day, get more done, and just feel better about life. So that’s why I put it into my new 75 Hard Challenge.
As part of this I had to have reading in there. From the original challenge, I felt amazing as I finally read and finished some of the books I’ve been working on for months if not over a year.
This morning routine takes me 1.5 to 2 hours but it sets the pace success in the rest of the day.
75 Hard Challenge I will Conquer,
Ben Branam