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Failure is an option… even when you are way down the challenge.
Yesterday I failed to do a lot of things on my list of 75 Hard. I’m writing this post a day late, so that was a failure.
I could make tons of excuses, but my failure was going to church when I hadn’t planned to, being there really early to help the wife and then wait for church when I could have been doing things on the challenge. Then we went out to dinner late with friends. Stuck to the diet, but then when we got home, my wife is packing for a trip and asking me for little things.
Truthfully I was so tired when I got home last night that I helped her with a couple things and then turned on the TV loud so she couldn’t continuously call me from the other room for help.
Once I sat down on the coach in front of the TV it was over. I didn’t get this done, I didn’t work on my other side hustle and I didn’t post a second social media post.
All the things I thought I would get later, didn’t happen.
So I learned that procrastination on a slow day will kill you! I didn’t think much of waiting because it was my day off from work and I had plenty of time.
I enjoyed playing video games and listening to a great book on Audible (It’s Your Ship by Michael Abrashoff. If I had more leaders like this in the military I would have never gotten out. This is a great book with tons of things to learn and was very motivating. I’m going through it a second time) and then didn’t do anything. Because I had plenty of time.
Today is much the same, but I’m flipping things. I’m doing my todo’s first and then I will take time to watch a movie and hang out.
I’m a morning person that has been forced to become a later person because of my wife and family. That is going to change. Up in the morning and get things done, then spend time doing nothing.
I was fighting my personal tendencies instead of working with them. Not anymore. And my wife will not like it, but she will get over it… I hope. Or we will figure something out so the both of us can get life done.
I will continue down this challenge, but man… after failing twice now, it’s not going as well as it could.
Again I’m to the point of three choices; give up, continue, or restart. I’m going to continue and will restart after a couple days off.
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam