#75 hard audio book full#

I’ve learned that in order to accomplish anything worth while you have to put in the work. I now understand that my excuses hold me back no matter how deep the rationalization is. I’ve realized that I am capable of so much more than I give myself credit for. I’ve gained a sense of confidence in myself that wasn’t there before. I was determined to change so that I could become the best version of myself that I knew was in me but had been suppressed by my negative self image and years of self doubt.įast forward 75 days. I was determined to find out if this challenge really could teach me mental toughness and help with my confidence. So while it may become routine, in my opinion, it never became easier. On weekends while it was nice to be able to sleep a little longer, I found myself wanting to have the day to just relax rather than having to do all 5 tasks. All of sudden it was 7pm and I still had over 50 ounces of water to finish. I still found myself not wanting to do that 2nd workout most days. Now here is the part where I tell you that after a week or 2 it became routine and became easy, right? Unfortunately, no. I started telling people what I was doing and it really just took off from there. When I got home after that first run I felt proud of myself for the first time in awhile. So I threw on my running shoes and did it. I had the thought of “If I can go outside and do my first workout in the pouring rain, I have literally 0 excuses for the next 75 days”. And then on a Friday morning I woke up at 5 am and went to let the dogs outside and noticed it was down pouring.

#75 hard audio book full#

Thinking, when I do I start? On a Monday so then I could end closer to the weekend or should I wait until after summer because I don’t want to miss out on events? Knowing full well that all these reasons were just excuses. So, I wrestled with the idea for roughly 2 weeks.

This challenge presented the perfect opportunity to do just that. In order to break out of my internal cycle struggle I had to push myself in some way. To be honest, when I was wrestling around with the idea of starting the challenge, I just didn’t feel like doing the extra exercise. It was the additional 45 minutes of exercise that had to be done outdoors that seemed like it was going to be difficult for me. The gallon of water also seemed like another easy one. And I have to say I agreed with both reactions at one time or another. While others made it seem like they could do it, no problem. Some people simply asked “why on earth would you want to put yourself through that, it sounds horrible”. Cannot be an audio book.Īfter explaining this to people I typically received 2 reactions. If something is not done or not followed, you must start over at day 1 and you have until you go to sleep to complete the tasks. There are no substitutions or deviations. These must be done every day for 75 straight days. Let’s break down the 5 daily task’s of 75 Hard. And while there will be changes made to your physical appearance, that isn’t the overall point of it. Most assume it is meant for fitness or to work on your physical appearance. Enter 75 Hard.ħ5 Hard is a mental toughness challenge. Something I could completely immerse myself in that would break me from from that cycle. I was searching for something only I could control, with no outside determining factors. I knew that if I didn’t do something, I would eventually lose any motivation I had left. All the while I was totally aware that this cycle was slowly breaking me down. I would begin to feel frustrated, talk negatively about about my lack of progress to myself in my head, begin to feel even more frustrated and by the end of all that, I ended up doing nothing. To be honest, I had felt the frustration for awhile. I began to feel frustrated with myself that I wasn’t utilizing that time wisely.

I had all this extra time! Why was I not deep cleaning every square inch of the house? Why was I not organizing and getting rid of all the extra clutter? Most importantly, why was I not working on my blog that I have been saying I would work on when I have extra spare time? Guess there is always next year, right? The Why and Whenĭuring quarantine I started to feel eh, blah. I just knew that there were things I wanted to work on personally and I set my normal resolutions and *surprise* I stuck to 0 of them. Wow, 2020 has been quite a year, hasn’t it?! Crazy to think that there is still 5 months to go! I don’t think anyone knew what was in store for this year going into it.