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The days move on and I push forward. I almost messed up my water yesterday by not paying attention. The part that was becoming the easiest almost got me derailed because I wasn’t paying attention. But got it just before bed.
Walk was good this morning. The weather was great again. I’ve been super blessed by the great weather I’ve had since I started this challenge. Hopefully it will stay like this for next week.
This week turned out to be slow. But my company is restructuring after the major acquisition they just closed. Which makes sense, but needs to be more. They restructured the top and my top end doesn’t look happy about it because it was imposed by the corporate office overseas. To me it makes sense that the share holders and CEO would want things to look the same in all their divisions. But change is always painful… it with my company because it’s painfully slow. I’ll gain a new boss and lose the old one I had which will probably take 6 months or more of grief and then take another 6 months to structure what the new boss employee relationship will be structured as. Like I said, painful. Our company needs a major restructure but just can’t do it fast enough to keep up with the market or the world in the oil business. By the time they get done with this it will be over a year since it should have been. And I feel like that puts a year behind the power curve on business.
So something will always try and derail your 75 Hard Challenge. Like I said at the beginning, during the 75 days you’ll have something come up that will cause you undo stress and be a major change in life. Things just move too fast in our modern day for something big not to happen within that 75 days. That means, when you look out at your life, every two to three months you are going to have something that happens to you that will change your life majorly. You need to be ready mentally to take care of yourself even through those changes.
Taking care of myself during those changes is where I’ve failed in my life in the past. Every time some big change happened I worked out less, ate worse, created more stress, and let my health go a little further down the hill showing itself as my weight going up.
I’ve started seeing this years ago and just thought I’ll tough through this little change and get back to it next month or next year. None of that is a good idea as we get older. Most things we think of as minor are major, but there is a difference between major and catastrophe. Catastrophic things are like cancer, your kid in the hospital, a close family member dying, and things that put you in the hospital. Most other things are bad enough for us to stop taking care of ourselves. If we take care of ourselves during the seemingly major things so that if something catastrophic happens then you will be ready to take it head on.
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam