75 Hard Challenge: Recent Episodes
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Do you have routines to get things done? Or do you make it up every day?
There is a story about Steve Jobs and his black turtle-neck sweaters. Not sure if it is true, but it makes a point. It was part of his routine. The story goes that black turtle necks are all he had in his closet. That way he never had to make a decision about what to wear and when. It was always the same. He used the routine to move faster, save time, and get more things done.
I do like having a uniform of sorts at work. I have one type of shirt, six of which I wear with jeans and the same boots daily. I am living groundhogs day that way. But I never have to think about it and it is just part of my morning routine.
Routines help me do everything better. It has an order to things so you don’t have to stop and think of what to do.
In the military, we have lots of routines. All of them are called different things. The most prevalent, life-saving routines in the infantry were called IAs, or Immediate Action Drills. It is what you did when there was an ambush, contact with the enemy, or took incoming fire. Those things that you should be doing without thought. The more things you did in the military the more IA drills you learned. And then you practiced them all the time.
I’m a civilian now and actually take pleasure in the fact that no one has tried to kill me in over a decade. It’s a more peaceful way to live.
But we can learn things from IA drills. IA drills were set up to have the most probability of success when things were really bad.
Why don’t you set up your life and execute and/or practice your own IA drill daily or more often?
I actually have one I’m doing very well, my morning routine. And in the morning it’s an IA drill because I roll out of bed, grab my clothes for a bike ride that I stagged the morning before, and head downstairs to the bathroom.
In the bathroom I do my thing, take a progress picture, weigh myself, change into my bike clothes, and head out.
I grab a glass of water, already staged, and a water bottle, already staged, and head to the garage to ride my Zwift trainer for 20 to 30 minutes.
After that, it’s back to the kitchen for another glass of water, to make coffee while I’m changing out of bike stuff and into shorts to read. I finish making the coffee and sit down to read my 10 pages.
When the 10 pages are done I look at what needs to be done for the day and head upstairs to take a shower and shave and get dressed for work. I give my wife a kiss as she is waking up to start her day and am out the door for work.
The days that I do my routine go way better than the days that I skip my morning routine.
And for any of you that think I can go to work any time I want so you couldn’t do something like this, I’m up at 5 am and at work by 8 am. If I can do it, so can you.
It is worth it.
Now I’m working on starting a morning routine at work and a nightly routine to wind down and get more done. It works in the morning, I don’t see why it can’t work everywhere.
What about you? Do you have a routine for things? Do you set up your routines as IA drills that you do without thinking?
Set a routine and follow it for 75 days. You’re life will improve.
Ben Branam
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Just do one more… Everything
I just listened to Ed Mylett’s book The Power of One More and it inspired me to do one more every day towards being great.
In everything you do in life, if you do just one more you can be great. No one knows at what exact point the greats have gone from just good to amazing but there was a point, and all it took was one more time.
In selection for special forces, it’s going just one more leg of the race, one more day of selection, or just one more time doing the drill.
In Marine Corps Boot Camp it was just one more past your limit; One more push-up, one more pull-up, one more mile, or one more time around the drill field. One day during Boot Camp the Drill Instructor gave me the advice to not even make it one more day just make it one more meal. Since we were fed three times a day it was just make it a little further, or just one more.
When I got out of Boot Camp and to the Fleet Marine Force we measured days with one more, just two more days and a wake-up. It was a way for us to tell each other just one more.
Now in real life, it is just one more thing
In my sales job, it is just one more call sales call
In my marriage, it is just one more nice word to my wife
With my kid, it is one more moment together.
A life of greatness can be built on just one more.
If you do one more of whatever it is you want to succeed, you will eventually become great.
No doubt, it takes time to do just one more. And it takes time and work to b e great at anything. But this one more all the time compounds and before you know it, you will be great.
Do one more act of kindness
One more thing to get in shape
One more thing at work
Just one more to become great.
It all starts with you.
Learn more by reading the book The Power of One More.
Ben Branam
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In everything you do be humble.
Leadership is something I’ve been taught since the beginning of everything… or so it seems.
As a Boy Scout when I was younger, leadership is one of their core principles. There I was taught the Scout Oath and Law. Both fail to mention being humble.
I grew from scouting to being a United States Marine. Leadership seemed to be the one constant from day one. I was taught leadership principles, traits, and core values. Of 5 traits, 14 principles, and 3 core values, not one mentioned humility.
After the Marine Corps, I wanted to be a cop. In my training, I didn’t find humility anywhere.
The first time I started learning humility was when I started studying Jui-Jitsu. Humility in Jui-Jitsu is more a form of survival than anything else. You think you are going to go into a fighting place and be the loudmouth, you are going to get humbled, fast. You get to learn the hard way.
Then as a Security Contractor, I started to learn a little more about humility. Trying to be “a quite professional” means you have to be humble.
Now from a Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, I finally am getting training in humility. He has an easy saying, “Be humble, or get humbled.”
There are a lot of places you can get away with being egotistical. And many people can get away with it for a lot longer than anyone around them would like, but sooner or later, they will get humbled.
If you want to be the leader in your family, a leader at work, or a leader in life, you better learn to be humble.
As a Marine, I was pretty good at war fighting. I did not like the administrative or uniform stuff. In fact, I was outright defiant of it. I never found my humility as a leader. But the leaders I loved the most around and above me were the ones to come at me with humility. Since I was good at my job as an infantry Marine, I knew a lot about my weapon system, and tactics, and continually studied them. In fact, I read manuals and books so much I was given the call sign “Brain”.
The leaders that were humble would tell me about how good I was with my weapons and how they aren’t as good with them or knew anything about some of the technicalities of my job. But they asked me what I needed to be better at that job and used that to help me be better at the rest of the administrative and rear echelon stuff that I wasn’t good at and hated. I was never the uniform-wearing poster boy that you think of when you think of a Marine. I was the dirt on my face, rifle carrying warrior part.
As a civilian, I still shoot competitions and go to firearms classes and even teach self-defense with a firearm from time to time. While I’m always one of the best, there is always someone better and someone I can learn from.
In fact, as a Marine, we all take great pride in our skill with our rifles. And every time you are on the range there is always a top shooter. And I was always one of the best there as well. But, be humble or get humbled. Every time we went to the range I was never top shot… I was always second. It didn’t matter if we went with the platoon (30 Marines), my company (100 Marines), or even the battalion (almost 1,000 Marines) I was always second by a point out of 350. Very humbling.
This week, while you go about your life, try to practice humility. I know it isn’t something we do very well or practice, but if you can lose your ego humility is easy.
Try it,
Ben
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Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world just might do it.
Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right.
Are you grateful for what you have?
Do you express gratitude for it?
How often do express gratitude to yourself? The people around you? The world?
If you are like most people in this crazy busy world, we don’t stop enough to express gratitude to the people and things around us. And the fact that we don’t do it just makes it harder. It is a habit that needs practice.
But if you are grateful for what you have life will become abundantly easier and better.
This is simple, but not easy.
Here is your challenge to make yourself a better person and the world a better place.
Every day for the next 75 days take to social media and express something you are grateful for.
I know it sounds too simple, but have you tried it? Do you express gratitude every day? Do you let the world know of your gratitude?
This challenge will make you better by stopping to think once a day about what you are grateful for and then expressing it to the world. We all know that social media should be called the social shit show. If it bleeds it leads has gone from the “old media” to the new media. And continues to get worse.
Here is your chance to influence that. Here is your chance to make social media a better place for everyone that sees your post. Yes, you will get more likes, shares, and interaction if you post that the world is ending over your bike ride was fun. That was my post yesterday. I crashed pretty hard about one minute into my ride. Got up and pushed on to ride 30 miles. And then posted I was grateful to be wearing my helmet because I bounced my head off the pavement and was able to continue on.
Don’t worry about measuring the likes on your post. Worry about helping the one person that will see your post. If you can change one person for the better, and they can change one person, and that person can change another person, we really can change the world. It all starts with you.
Ben
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It’s the everyday things that change us. “Watch your thoughts, they become your words;watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become…
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Changing you and your focus. You can actually change you. It's simple, but not easy and it only takes time.
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Books will change your life even in the most unusual way. It takes time, work, and more time. Be patient and work at it.
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Go your own way. If you don't go your own way when setting goals you are going to fail eventually. Only question is, how much work will you do to fail?
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How do you get back to what you know you should be doing after a lapse in time? Getting back on target takes work, time, and effort. Can you do it?
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Everything in threes is something we say to except bad things happening one after another. How do you prepare for bad things in threes?
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Challenge can teach you everything you would ever want to know about yourself and becoming better.
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Is fear a legitimate problem that keeps you from getting things done so that you can become the best you?
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How many times a year do you challenge yourself? And do you enjoy it? Should you challenge yourself physically? Will it help?
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Are you overwhelmed? Me too! Can you believe that most people feel just like you? Here are 3 mistakes I make you learn from.
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New Year's resolutions are crap. Every year you make the same ones. It's not about making a resolution, it's about doing small things every day.
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What is the best schedule for a day? How can you build that best schedule?
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Winning in life means being 1% better every day and being 1% better than the competition.
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Goal setting benefits are supposed to include making money, being in great shape, climbing the ladder of success, owning amazing cars, and just being the person everyone wants to be.
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Living a life of intent means doing everything with intent. When was the last time you did anything in your life with an intent? And…
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How to set personal boundaries and monitor them to ensure you are true to yourself. It's easy and extreme at the same time.
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What to do when you fail has been a question asked and answered by many, but are their answers working for you? Work to be a pro and not fail again.
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Will your relationships with the people close to you suffer during and after doing the 75 Hard Program? I got a sad email from a…
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Get out and get around other people. It will make you feel better, work better, and be better. Figure out a way and do it!
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After 75 days of working and grinding I'm coming away with one big life lesson... I'm thankful for my life. I have a great life. What about you?
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It’s what I remember after September 11, 2001, a love for others and an admiration for our country and those that were ready to protect us no matter the cost.
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Are you on your own journey? Are other people helping your journey? Changing your journey? Or hindering your journey?
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Do you continue when you are sick? Give up for a day? Or give up period?
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Continue without results is one of the hardest things to do. But you need to continue and here is why.
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How to reach your goals: one simple way go reach any goal you have. It's very simple, but it isn't easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
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Motivation Monday will never get you where you want to go. Learn discipline and persistence to reach your goals. Here's how...
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My 75 Hard list is always ongoing and I'm always working on it, like I'm working on improving myself. Self improvement is what it is all about.
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White knuckled discipline is the way to start things. White knuckled discipline is grabbing onto what you want so hard that your hands and knuckles start turning different colors.
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Sometimes getting started is the hardest part. But why don't you want to start. Here are a couple things to overcome so you can start.
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Honor, Courage, Commitment was the core values of the US Marine Corps while I was in. The greatest of these is the commitment to continue, to push forward, to win, and to complete anything.
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Study is how you can learn something new. Study is how you can learn how to do something new. Studying something is how you can be great.
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How to be more disciplined in your life by forgetting about discipline and accomplishing what you want.
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Are you riding the wave of success or failure? You are going one way or the other. Nothing and no one ever stay static.
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When things are going the wrong way in life what do you do? I'm slipping right now and this is how to get back on track.
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Have you mastered how to be successful in life? Do you want to?
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There will always be something that gets in your way. Go around, through, over, or destroy it to meet your objective. Over the last two…
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Sometimes burning the boats is how to get things done. How do you get things done? Does it take an act of congress? Or can you decide and execute?
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Overcoming obstacles is about your mindset and what you do, not about the obstacle. Look at obstacles you have overcome to give you strength.
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Wake up and Rise and Grind! It's time to get work done. Here is how to get it done. We start with 75 Hard and end with the Power List.
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Should you stop improving during a life test? Last week was frozen hell in San Antonio and I stopped working on myself to be all in for the test.
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How much water do you drink? How much water should you drink to lose weight? For your health? It's more than you think!
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What would you do to stop stress eating? Will you work on your willpower? Your discipline? Your Grit? What would make you stop?
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Ever think keeping your sanity is impossible in this crazy world? Problems don't seem to get better but everything is changing. Try a 3-2-1 Video
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What happens in your house matters more than what happens any other place. Concentrate on what happens in your house and ignore the rest.
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To be better everything, focus on yourself. If you only. focus on outside factors you will never be as good as you could be. Focus on Yourself!
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Bring it 2021! That is my attitude for this year. I am going to make it better than last year no matter what. Whatever happens just Bring it!
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Do you have hope for the future? Can you create more hope? Or hope at all? Of course you can, here's how to create hope for your future.
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The power list is a simple concept to help you prioritize and execute things that need to get done; a todo list that can change your life.
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Everyone says crap like failure isn't an option, you don't fail, you learn... but how do you recover from a failure and keep going?
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Do you know the secret to accomplishment? It's simple... just keep going. That's it. Don't beleive me, read this and find out.
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Complete the Mission or die trying. It's what Marines do. Can you set your own mission that you will complete or die trying?
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Happy Thanksgiving all! Make sure you get something accomplished while you are feasting on the big bird. Ben
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The slow carb diet is the one way I've found to lose weight and it can work for you too because it is so simple.
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Just get out there and start! I just started another 75 Hard Challenge because I was feeling like I wasn't moving forward in my life. You can do anything you want... just start.
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Surviving Covid-19 with mindset. Your mind can heal your body and make you do the things that are good for you.
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Have you found the secret of life? I'm working on it right now. It's simple. Just keep going. That's the secret, just keep going in all 7 areas of life.
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There is a season to plant, there is a season to harvest. There is a season to rest and there is a season of work. How do you feel about work?
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Is your emotional control where you want it to be? Me neither. Here is what you can do to control my emotions.
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Where were you when the planes hit on 9-11? What did you feel that day? How did those feelings change in the following weeks?
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How do you deal with overwhelming feelings? Is there a way that works for everyone? Is there a way that could work for you? FInd out...
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13 Steps to self improvement are really easy. You just have to do the work every day to get what you want. Check out and easy way to go through it...
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These 13 Steps to Self Improvement could be the thing that changes your life. Try it. It will only take mintes a day and it maybe what you are looking for.
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Last weekend I spent time around a lot of people and it was good for the soul. It made me feel amazing. What do you do that is good for you soul?
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How to stay positive when the world is trying to crush you. It happens to all of us and we have to get through or the world will push you over.
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Here is the secret to any life challenge you will face, keep going. If you get off course, start again. That's it. But, how do you make it happen?
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To become a hard worker takes practice. You have to work at it and get better all the time. Mental toughness will help you practice until you get it right.
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You can always find a negative bias for anything. Do you keep that negative bias from acting or use it to avoid obsticals that might get in your way.
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How do you handle life challenges? Do you respond thoughtfully and aggressively to fix the problem or react and let the challenge grow into more problems?
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What can you do to help someone else out right now? What skills and talents do you have that you could use to help someone that needs it? Anything...
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Learn to focus on what matters and those things you can change. The 75 Hard Challenge helps you focus on what you can change so you can be better.
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This is how to drink water to lose weight, eat better, and be healthier. It's so simple you will reject the idea at first. Don't, this could change you.
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The Slow Carb Diet is the only plan I've been able to stick with. It's simple and you can have success with it too. Check out the 5 simple rules for eating.
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75 Hard is still giving me life lessons learned. This week it is all about how to diet. I found this super simple way to lose weight that costs you nothing.
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My 75 Hard results aren’t bad. I’ve conquered my 75 Hard Challenge for the third time. My results: I lost 28.5 pounds. I started the…
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I'm going to finish strong with lots of motivation. This is easy. The hard part is not screwing it up.
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The end is motivating me to get there. With just 3 days left in my challenge I'm just trying not to screw it up.
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Finish strong, just like you started. Strong isn’t sprinting to the end, that is when you mess things up. Finish like you started.
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Over training is a real things that can really get you hurt. Here is what I'm doing to finish the 75 Hard Challenge even though I know I'm over trained right now.
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What do you do if you miss a goal? A goal is never truly missed until you are dead. Reset, and do it again until you acheive your goal.
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Don't drop your pack close to the finish. Even at the finish be slow to drop your pack so you can ensure the race is over.
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Ever feel like you are shouting into the darkness with no return? Will you continue? Or will you quit when it gets hard and you think no one is listening.
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How do you make good days happen? Do you have a plan? Do you make them happen? You can, this is how.
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What do you do when the bad days pass? Do you enjoy the next day or do you just relax thinking the bad day is over?
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What do you do when something severely demotivates you?
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It was a good and hard day. You can have those, enjoy them, and still win the 75 Hard Challenge.
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If you don't learn life's lessons the first time, those things will come back to you as you do the 75 Hard Challenge. Here's the one I forgot that came back to me today.
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Do you want to quit! Do you! Well slap yourself and get back in the game.
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Today I sent most of the day answering emails and doing a little work. My wife woke up and declared it a day off. And…
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I continue to move forward. Things in my business are taking way longer then I want them to. But I guess that is the first…
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I pushed through my 75 Hard even though I had depression try and take me out. I kept going. I learned it by doing this challenge.
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This has been a hard week. Yesterday I needed to put up content for my other side hustle… so I missed a post here. Didn’t…
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Do you systematize things in your life? Do you do the important things with a plan?
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Are you still going in the face of this virus? Or are using it for an excuse to stop what you are doing?
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Even when I have those days where life knocks me down I can still have little wins that keep me going.
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Today was my hardest day yet... I hope the rest of them don't have the same moment as today.
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Gain pride from you past, enjoy the present, and look to the challenges of the future.
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How many times has life kicked you in the head? How do you get back up again? What motivated you?
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Can you win the day even when things in your life are going wrong?
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Who controls you? Are you really in control or do things happen to you? Or do you take control of everything and make things happen?
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How are you about setting boundaries to make your self better? Can you set "me time" every day?
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Hard times make strong men, easy times make weak men. This is your conundrum to solve. 75 Hard can be the solution.
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Planing is the way. I have spoken.
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Plan the day, or plan to fail. It's up to you.
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This is the fourth 75 Hard for me and I’m working hard at it. Seems like I have to work harder at this one then the others.
One thing I think is time goals versus outcome goals. The original 75 Hard has 2 workouts a day at least 45 minutes. Those I put on my calendar and made sure I had time before work and then after work to take care of it.
This 75 Hard I’m doing an outcome goal of 12,500 steps a day. That might not seem like much (and it didn’t to me until I had to do it everyday), but it is work if you have a sit-down job. Both my jobs are in front a computer or behind the wheel of a truck. Both I sit for long periods of time.
I have to get up and take a walk multiple times a day trying to get my steps in. I have to go different places and I have to adapt on the fly. I have to go for walks late at night in not fun places to get my steps in. It is a lot more work then I thought it would be.
Everything else is becoming more and more work too. The diet was my hardest part for the first round and it isn’t getting easier. To tell the truth, the only time I ever had a close to perfect diet was in Marine Corps Boot Camp. Where even the drill instructors couldn’t keep me from sneaking extra food.
Now I’m working on it again. The diet sucks, but it is the biggest problem I’ve had in my life… ever. It’s trying to kill me a little every day, every year. And eventually it will catch me. I’ve lost 5 pounds since starting the journey two weeks ago and continue the struggle.
But… and I have a big BUT here, I am catching my grove and have a new motivation that I started telling myself over the last couple days.
Be good in the small things and the big things will take care of themselves. The diet is a giant thing, but all I have to do is one meal at a time, one day at a time, and it will take care of itself.
I got the saying from the book “The Program” by Eric Kapitulik. It’s a book about building culture. I’m using it to build character in myself and culture inside my family.
I keep repeating this to myself. Take care of the little things… This saying can be attributed to dozens of places and even the Bible. Seems like something worth saying and doing. So I’m taking care of the little things.
What about you? Are you taking care of the little things in your life? Your health, your family, your job, your home? Are you taking care of the little things there?
I know your family is a big thing, but it’s the little moments with your family that makes all the difference to have a great relationship.
Your home is giant, you live in it. But it’s the little things that keep it up. The maintenance, small repairs, and mowing the yard that keep it going.
Everything in our world seems to break down to the little things. How good are you at the little things?
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam
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This was a tough week at work and a hard drive home. I’ve been craving food all the time. The diet is hard, but even harder in getting 12,500 steps in per day. It’s really tough. I feel like I’m taking multiple walks per day to get my steps in.
Worst part for me is that during the first week I lost 5 pounds. That’s the good news… the bad news is the second week I put that right back on. So I’m at the weight on day 13 as I was on day 1. And I’ve had the diet and the cravings.
I’m going to stick with this for the 75 days… but it is really tough. I’ll have to just to see if it will work for weight loss again. I can do this… it’s just hard right now.
How about you? I’ve talking all this negative stuff and now I’m going for the motivation part.
Every struggle has the silver lining, we just have to find it. Right now for me, I’m getting lots of content up and starting to look into the future more. I am making plans for a couple years out by making lists of what needs to get done and getting to it.
Yesterday was a sloth day. If it wasn’t for this challenge I would have sat on the couch for most of the day doing nothing. Today this is up early because I’m going camping the family. We are going to hang out and have a good time.
I’ll still do the challenge. That’s how you can tell you are dedicated to something. When you are going on a weekend get away and you will still get the things done. I can, and will do it.
How about you? Can you do 75 days in a row? Can you?
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam
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Working all day in my company’s corporate office. I had to take a safety course and do some other things while in town, so my challenge went on the back burner. But I’m finishing it. Started work at 6am and now it’s 10pm and I’m just finishing this. This is my last thing on my list.
I’ll get it done and go to sleep and then do it again tomorrow.
On days like this my challenge is actually a great thing. It makes my life harder, but I just get things done despite all the hard work. Normally I would have eaten crappy food, not done any exercise and drank more energy drinks then water. And I would have skipped doing this. So I would have just wasted the day for self growth because I was “busy.”
Now I’ve gotten things done.
- Walked 12,500 steps – Had to walk around a mall for more then an hour to get the rest and do a walk early in the morning before work.
- Did the Slow Carb Diet – Couldn’t eat desert or other goodies with all the guys, but ate vegetables and meat.
- Snap In – Done at the hotel while waiting for something to download at the hotel.
- Water – I just kept drinking it all day while everyone else was enjoying lots of different drinks.
So it can be done. No matter how busy you are. And you can get better every day of your life.
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam
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The end of the first week and I’m going strong!!!
What about you?
I’m tired… this is tough. But I’m getting a little win everyday before I go to bed.
On days like today I would not have done everything I should have… I’m just tired. I haven’t been sleeping well, but hopefully that will turn around soon.
I am losing weight on this challenge so far. And I’m happy about that. If I lose a couple more pounds I think it will help me sleep better.
What do you want out of this challenge? What would be that one thing you would want to accomplish in your life? That one way you want to be better?
Mine is my health right now. I’m almost 100 pounds over where I want to be. It took almost 15 years to get here… so it won’t go back in the next 75 days. I’m using this 75 Hard Challenge to get a jump start on that.
Some things are too big to get done in 75 days, but 75 days is a good place to start. If you can do it for 75 days, you can do it for more. The journey of a thousand miles…
So what do you want to get out of this challenge?
What is that one thing you would like to do better in your life?
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam
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