The Challenge:
Do 5 things a day for 75 days. No excuses, no stopping, no missing anything. If you miss something, or cheat, you go back to day 1!
- Strict Diet – No Cheating, not even one bite, and No Alcohol!
- Two Workouts per Day – At least one outside and both at least 45 minutes each
- Drink One Gallon of Water per Day – Nothing but clear, plain water counts
- Read Ten Pages per Day – Non-Fiction self help or business book
- Take a Progress Picture Every Day
Why You Should Do the Challenge:
Do you want to create discipline, grit, and drive? Do you want to be better then you are right now? Do you want to get more things done, have more discipline, and be more?
People talk about having more grit, more discipline, and more drive. Most people simply tell you to find it in yourself, or you will just build it over time. That’s all crap. Some people do get that lucky and these traits are simply absorbed because they want them.
Not me! I learned, and earned these traits when I went to Boot Camp to become a United States Marine in 1998. Then they started to fade.
Now with this challenge I’m working on the discipline, mental roughness and confidence. It’s 75 days to being better then you are right now.
My Original Why:
I started this program because I wanted something to give me the grit, mental toughness, and physical harness I use to have. I was U.S. Marine and could outlast, out do, out pull, out run, and just flat out out do almost every person out there.
Boot camp in 1998 started that process and got me moving. Then September 11th happened and made me focus on all of the things. In 2002 I was assigned to an anti-terrorism unit with a huge training budget and lots of time for training. I grew better, harder, and tougher mentally and physically.
After that I spent time in Iraq in combat in 2003, after that life got easy. And I made it easier for my self. I didn’t do the work to keep in shape and I quit doing hard things. I did the minimum amount to stay in the Marine Corps for another 5 years. Then I got out and started doing less and less for the last 15 years.
Now with Andy and his 75 Hard program I have found something that will push my mental toughness back to where it should be and help jump start my physical fitness.
I’m all in, and this is my journey through the program.
My Next Challenge:
I finished the original challenge and slacked for two weeks, and I didn’t like it, so I’m doing another challenge to keep myself going strong, learning, and making my life better. Hope you are along for the ride.
My Current Challenge: I will get these ten things done everyday for the next 75 days –
- 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
My Why:
I was slacking in as little as a week after getting done with the first challenge. I loved the way I was feeling and what I was accomplishing on the first challenge and wanted to do another one. Instead of just repeating it, I’m doing a different version trying to push my life forward in certain areas.
If you haven’t finished the first and original 75 Hard Challenge, don’t do something else to make it harder or easier. Do the original as written first, then if you like the way it made you feel and what happened to your life, you can alter it a little and make things happen in certain areas of your life.
I really want my side hustles to be pushed forward (this being one of them) and that’s one of my focuses. The other is my physical fitness. My health is horrible because my physical fitness sucks, and that’s something that needs to be fixed.
What do you think of my challenge? Could you do it? Too easy?