Do You Continue When You are Sick? 75 Hard Day 42

08/22/21 • 9 min

Do you continue when you are sick? Give up for a day? Or give up period?

Yesterday I was laid up by the Covid Vaccine. I felt so sick I could barely do anything. I didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to move, felt horrible.

Before you go side-ways on me for talking about the Vaccine, it’s only relevant because I got mine the day before. Pain in my arm migrated to pain everywhere. It was the “I’m sick” body aches that come with a common cold. I just didn’t want to do anything. Even going downstairs to drink water was work.

But I did it. I continued my 75 Hard Journey even while being sick.

I know it sounds stupid to say, “look at me I did something while I was sick.” Because we all do what we have to do when we are sick. I know when you are sick you still have family and work obligations that you will continue to do. So I just added 75 Hard on top of those normal things.

Pushing through the hard times no matter what is how you continue and do hard things when you have to.

Last year I got the actual Covid-19 and it sucked a lot! I’d suggest you avoid it if at all possible.

But some of the main problems that will land you in the hospital are dehydration and weakness from lack of food. So when I had the Rona I made myself get up every hour and drink water and walk around. I also forced myself to eat something once a day. I had extreme muscle pain and my blood oxygen levels were on the brink of a hospital stay. But I wasn’t going.

On day two of walking around my room every hour, I had to go to the bathroom first and look myself in the mirror to get the motivation to do it. I had to yell at myself like I was a junior Marine failing at his task. But I did it.

On day three of walking around the pain was so bad I would cry in front of the mirror first and then tell myself I could do it. And then did it.

By day four, it started getting better.

The discipline, motivation, and pure grit I learned from 75 Hard let me stay at home and out of the hospital and recover from the Rona.

This program could change your life and maybe even save it. Sooner or later things will happen in life. You will get sick, a family member will get sick, and you will lose someone... We are all mortal and it happens. But if you have built-in a strength of will you will come out the other side. If you choose to try and learn your strength of will at the worst time in your life you may not make it.

Build your strength before you need it. Do a 75 Hard Program and be a better person. Sign up for my 75 Hard free starters guide here.

Ben Branam

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Do you continue when you are sick? Give up for a day? Or give up period?

Yesterday I was laid up by the Covid Vaccine. I felt so sick I could barely do anything. I didn’t want to eat, didn’t want to move, felt horrible.

But I did it. I continued my 75 Hard Journey even while being sick.

Pushing through the hard times no matter what is how you continue and do hard things when you have to.

Last year I got the actual Covid-19 and it sucked a lot! I’d suggest you avoid it if at all possible.

On day three of walking around the pain was so bad I would cry in front of the mirror first and then tell myself I could do it. And then did it.

By day four, it started getting better.

The discipline, motivation, and pure grit I learned from 75 Hard let me stay at home and out of the hospital and recover from the Rona.

Build your strength before you need it. Do a 75 Hard Program and be a better person. Sign up for my 75 Hard free starters guide here.

Ben Branam

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Previous Episode

Continuing Without Results

Just keep pushing forward until the results come.

Zig Ziglar tells a story of two guys out in the hot fields back in the day. They come across an old hand pump that use to work.

They pump for a while but nothing comes out. So they find a little water from a nasty creek to prime the pump. Then pump some more.

One guy says that’s enough, I’m done. But the other continues on. Because the deeper the well, the longer it takes to get to the top, and the better the water will be.

“Don’t give up, that water is coming says” the optimistic guy to the quitter. And they pump and they pump and they pump some more.

“I give up,” says the quitter and starts to walk away from his pumping duties.

“Don’t stop, that water is right below the surface. If you stop it will fall all the way back to the bottom and you will have to start again.” says the optimist. He convinces the quitter to stay and pump more.

They pump more and more. And finally, water comes out.

Once the water comes out, all they had to do was put a little pressure on the pump every once in a while to keep the water flowing.

The pump is like life. We have to pump and pump never knowing when the water will come out. It takes an amazing amount of work to get whatever you are doing to start flowing, but once you do, it only takes a little work to keep it going.

Do you ever want to be the quitter?

Last week I was that guy. I almost quit this 75 Hard Program go around at 30 days because I haven’t seen any progress. It’s painful to be on a diet and workout every day and not see anything happening. But I will continue for my 75 days and then reevaluate what I’m doing.

What about you? How many days or times will you work on something before reevaluating and moving on to something else?

You don’t have to be great to begin, but you do have to begin, to be great.

Get started, set a time of how long you will work on this one idea before you try something else. And when you set that time schedule, I’d like you to think about Dave Ramsey’s three rules of business:

It will take twice as long as you think,
Cost twice as much as you think,
And everyone thinks they are the exception to the rule.

Go after your goal. Work on it every day. Set yourself a reasonable time limit and then double it. Work for that long, and then try something new.

Ben Branam

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Next Episode

Your Journey?

Are you on your own journey? Are other people helping your journey? Changing your journey? Or hindering your journey?

We are all on our own journey in life. We are going to the same place. In the end, we will all die, it’s just a matter of when and how. When you die, they will put the date you were born, and the day you died, separated by a dash on your tumb stone. That dash is your life. What you do with that dash, who you impact, and what journey you take to get there is up to you. Live your dash how you want to be remembered. That dash is all you have.

Last week I got a nasty-sounding comment on my podcast about how I’m not really on a 75 Hard journey because I’m not doing two workouts a day. The inventor of the 75 Hard Program, Andy Frisella, says no substitutes and no changes. Well, I did the original two years ago before almost anyone knew it was a thing. Andy announced it on his podcast, I wrote down the 5 rules and started a week later. It was hard, tough, annoying, painful, and life-changing.

Now I’m continuing on to take 75-day journeys one at a time to improve my life. I’m sharing it with you to hopefully help you become a better person. I know as I’m doing these 75 Hard days I’m getting better. As I’m getting better my friends and family around me are working to be better people. I’m hoping the same will happen to you.

If you are reading this, I hope you are getting better and helping the people around you to get better. If we all do the simplest and best thing to help ourselves, we can make the world a better place.

Get on your own journey to be better. Tell everyone that isn’t there to help you to F off. And help everyone you can along the way.

You can do it. It all starts with taking a look in the mirror and making yourself better.

Ben Branam

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