#75Hard

This program consist of

• 2 workouts a day (1 Outdoors)

• Adhering to a diet

• Drinking 1 gallon of water

• Reading 10 pictures of a personal development book

• No cheat meals

For 75 days 

#75Hard

I don’t know where to begin..

I also don’t know where to end lol, but to start here’s this- 

• You can say all my life I’ve struggled with confidence..

I walked around thinking I had to put a little extra icing on the cake, and like.. for what? 

I found myself always emulating somebody else’s best qualities that I’ve taken away from them.. 

And found myself always lost in finding truly who I am

If it was a friendship, a relationship, or a job, or a goal, 

It seemed it was always how can I do this as somebody else would? 

I think it was to ultimately place the responsibility of failure, off of me, and on me being LIKE them, and not failing as truly myself..

But I realize now that confidence is ONLY pulled from the work that YOU’VE put in.. 

• Responsibility is the next thing in line with that..

Giving up responsibilities feels so good as to, we never have to fully face failure, or regret, or pain,

If we just pass on responsibility to the next person..

To be able to say, I’m not where I am because of her, or I’m this way because of him, or this or that, 

And I found myself there more times than not..

• I’d be lying if I said was at the complete bottom when I started 75Hard,

But more so, I was on an upward trajectory, things were getting going,

I was in a place where I was working out, 

I was becoming more aware of my diet,

More aware of who and what I let into my mind and my circle,

I was intentional with my actions,

I was speaking my truth, 

And it came to a point where I saw others explaining their path and journey through 75Hard,

and I was like man, that has to be an amazing payout, BUT..

Even then, I convinced myself, 

“ahh I pretty much do all that..” 

“I can imagine what that feels like“

“Ohh yeah that momentum stuff does feel good”

“I know what that’s like”

And I realized that those too, we’re just excuses..

That even though I was making progress in my life, 

That NOT attaching yourself to something that requires ACCOUNTABILITY,

was just another excuse..

Feeling as if it felt good to make progress here and there,

And do the work, 

When you felt like it..

Was actual progress, and it is in most cases.. 

But I wanted to see if I could make progress, while tracked, and where it’s day after day on a continuing scale.. 

And that’s when I realized..

Just how capable I was..

And just how capable any of us are..

Really..

I mean that..

I mean it’s cliche, but if my fatass can do it anybody can,

And it’s TRUTH..

This program isn’t more about the weight loss or physical change,

Than it is, realizing 

• you are not the excuses you tell yourself..

You’re not the voice in your head telling you that you NEED something that you really don’t..

You can go when you’re tired..

You can make time for things like reading..

You do have time to work out..

And that it’s all based on where you set your sight for the standards you set for yourself..

Trust me, I was the king of cheat meals,

I was the ruler of rest days..

So more often, we do need a program or plan to attach ourselves to, to see that capability in ourselves..

I’m not here to sell you on it, the shit is FREE lol

And hey look, I’m not perfect by any means, nor am I trying to convince you I am,

But I failed my first go around,

On arguably the EASIEST task,

The progress picture😅..

And I’m not even trying to tell you that I “hopped right back on the train and muscled through” blahblahblah 

But look, I gave it a couple days,

And to be honest, it was almost harder to start over again..

And it was EASIER to fail again, around the beginning, because I was closer to failure than I was to the end🤷🏽‍♂️

It was easier to say “ahh I can have a drink I’m only 8 days in to this go around” and trust me I was tempted with tequila at a beach house in Costa Mesa🥵lol..

But like all things, 

• once momentum is created, it gets hard to stop..

One last lesson I took away, and arguably the most valuable lesson I took away, is this, in the words of my good friend Chris, who finished his 75Hard 2 weeks after I started, 

when it comes to doing a program like this,

You must detach yourself from the familiar feeling of failure..

You have to cut the association, because in most cases, it’s you that makes yourself fail, not some special circumstance, or person or event.. it’s you to you..

That starting out, we want to give ourselves the most restrictive diet out there, and do the toughest workout regiment, to snap into the new habit..

When the truth is our brains and bodies aren’t even trained for that YET..

That we do that not because we’re extra hardcore, or whatever, but because we don’t want to break the subconscious association to failure, and we do that by making it more difficult than we know it should be..

Because then we can comfortably and satisfyingly say “ahh yeah that 75Hard thing, I tried it and it just didn’t work out..” or “yeah I did it this way and that way, and did this and did that”(for the self serving glory part)all to end the statement with “yeah but I didn’t end up finishing it..”

All in all, in any program, or in any amount of time you set for yourself and your goals and mission, 

JUST

KEEP

IT

PUSHING..

Just keep going, and don’t miss twice..

Stop trying to make yourself fail, because of your association to failure.. 

Build momentum, and ride the momentum you created towards that goal..

In the grand scheme of things, I’m not to far from where I started, and physically I’m not far off from where I could have imagined I’d be, 

But I CAN confidently say, I’m far far far from where I’ll end up, and I’ll likely never go back to the way I was..

And what’s the cost of that? 

Like seriously?..

If you need a kick in the butt and think “ahh I deserve to take a rest today”..

just know that I’m right there with you doing my cardio walking my fatass up and down the street😈..

If you’re considering, this program or any program, and just need some encouragement in simply getting started.. 

just know that I’m right there with you doing my cardio walking my fatass up and down the street😊..

And you can count on that😉

See you out there👊🏽👊🏽