Energizer Bunny is How to Reach Your Goals: 75 Hard Day 27
08/07/21 • 9 min
Just keep going like the energizer bunny is how to reach your goals.
Every day is a new battle. Every day is a new challenge. Every day is the same but different.
Yesterday I had to get up at 3 am and be at work by 4 to see an out-of-town customer by 7 am. No problem.
Most people would take that day off from anything else. Most people would just do the minimum of everything that day. Most people don’t reach their goals.
Here’s the secret of how to reach your goals. Work on them every day. No matter what. It doesn’t matter what else happens, if you keep working every day you will reach your goals.
Most people get off track when they stop for a day. A day becomes a week, a week becomes a month, and months become years.
I’ve always had physical fitness and doing physical things as goals in my life. At least for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until my senior of high school I discovered weight lifting and my goals actually seemed reachable.
I was a fat kid, growing into a fat adult. I wanted to be a police officer but everyone laughed because of my physical fitness. After high school, I continued weights and working out. I got into good enough shape to join the Marine Corps and get through boot camp and School of Infantry. After that fitness was fun. I went through a police academy and the fitness part was easy.
Fast forward years and after I came back from combat in 2003, nothing mattered except enjoying life. I did the minimum physical requirements for years. Then, got in good enough shape to run a half marathon in 2007. By 2008 I was back in the war as a contractor in Iraq. By 2009, physical fitness was back in my life strong and fast. I was doing workouts that most soldiers that lived on the base wouldn’t even think of doing, and loving it.
I came back from Iraq the second time and started a family, and helped start a church. For years I was working a “real” job and working full time at the church and trying to raise a new kid and stay married. Fitness fell off.
I went to the gym once or twice a week if I was lucky. But for lots of weeks, I did zero physical fitness. Fast forward another 10 years and I look like a fat, out-of-shape, old dad.
Now I’m trying to change that. I don’t miss... even one day. I came home yesterday and did yard sprints. Then finished with a walk and mowing the yard for an hour. It was grueling, hot, and I was tired. But I did it. I worked out even after getting four hours of sleep and working 11 hours.
That is how you reach your goals. You work on it every day no matter what else happens.
Here I am at day 27 and still in the game for my 75 Hard Program. And I’m loving it. I got up this morning and headed out for a bike ride. Loved it. Faster and further than I have gone in over a year. I’m getting back into life. I had two good gym workouts last week, one yard workout, and two walks. I’m doing it every day.
What about you? Are you reaching your goals? Why don’t you set a process goal to reach your goal?
What is the one thing you could do every day that will help you reach one of your major goals? If it’s like me, work out every day, without fail. Some workouts are better than others, but I always get one.
If you want to write a book, set a goal to sit in front of your writing station for 15 minutes a day no matter what. Even if you fall asleep at your desk because it’s so late, do it.
Making that kind of commitment to yourself is how you reach your goals.
If you aren’t sure what goal to work on first, or you have the goal of being a better person, do the 75 Hard Program. It will make you a better person and help you reach all your goals. Get the beginner’s guide below.
Ben Branam
The post Energizer Bunny is How to Reach Your Goals: 75 Hard Day 27 appeared first on 75 Hard Experience.
Just keep going like the energizer bunny is how to reach your goals.
Every day is a new battle. Every day is a new challenge. Every day is the same but different.
Yesterday I had to get up at 3 am and be at work by 4 to see an out-of-town customer by 7 am. No problem.
Most people would take that day off from anything else. Most people would just do the minimum of everything that day. Most people don’t reach their goals.
Here’s the secret of how to reach your goals. Work on them every day. No matter what. It doesn’t matter what else happens, if you keep working every day you will reach your goals.
Most people get off track when they stop for a day. A day becomes a week, a week becomes a month, and months become years.
I’ve always had physical fitness and doing physical things as goals in my life. At least for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t until my senior of high school I discovered weight lifting and my goals actually seemed reachable.
I was a fat kid, growing into a fat adult. I wanted to be a police officer but everyone laughed because of my physical fitness. After high school, I continued weights and working out. I got into good enough shape to join the Marine Corps and get through boot camp and School of Infantry. After that fitness was fun. I went through a police academy and the fitness part was easy.
Fast forward years and after I came back from combat in 2003, nothing mattered except enjoying life. I did the minimum physical requirements for years. Then, got in good enough shape to run a half marathon in 2007. By 2008 I was back in the war as a contractor in Iraq. By 2009, physical fitness was back in my life strong and fast. I was doing workouts that most soldiers that lived on the base wouldn’t even think of doing, and loving it.
I came back from Iraq the second time and started a family, and helped start a church. For years I was working a “real” job and working full time at the church and trying to raise a new kid and stay married. Fitness fell off.
I went to the gym once or twice a week if I was lucky. But for lots of weeks, I did zero physical fitness. Fast forward another 10 years and I look like a fat, out-of-shape, old dad.
Now I’m trying to change that. I don’t miss... even one day. I came home yesterday and did yard sprints. Then finished with a walk and mowing the yard for an hour. It was grueling, hot, and I was tired. But I did it. I worked out even after getting four hours of sleep and working 11 hours.
That is how you reach your goals. You work on it every day no matter what else happens.
Here I am at day 27 and still in the game for my 75 Hard Program. And I’m loving it. I got up this morning and headed out for a bike ride. Loved it. Faster and further than I have gone in over a year. I’m getting back into life. I had two good gym workouts last week, one yard workout, and two walks. I’m doing it every day.
What about you? Are you reaching your goals? Why don’t you set a process goal to reach your goal?
What is the one thing you could do every day that will help you reach one of your major goals? If it’s like me, work out every day, without fail. Some workouts are better than others, but I always get one.
If you want to write a book, set a goal to sit in front of your writing station for 15 minutes a day no matter what. Even if you fall asleep at your desk because it’s so late, do it.
Making that kind of commitment to yourself is how you reach your goals.
If you aren’t sure what goal to work on first, or you have the goal of being a better person, do the 75 Hard Program. It will make you a better person and help you reach all your goals. Get the beginner’s guide below.
Ben Branam
The post Energizer Bunny is How to Reach Your Goals: 75 Hard Day 27 appeared first on 75 Hard Experience.
Previous Episode
Motivation Monday is Bullshit! Discipline and Persistence is the Way: 75 Hard Program Day 21
Motivation Monday bullshit will never work, only discipline and persistence will carry you through the hard times.
Do you ever start at the bottom and look up? What’s that feel like? Do you think motivation Monday with a crappy meme is going to get you to the top?
I use to think with enough motivation I could get anywhere. I loved Motivation Monday and memes that would give sayings like “Just hand in there” and the cat holding on to a rope.
Now I understand that those will get you started, or let you take a step, but they will never get you to the top.
We all define our top differently. Your top should be reaching your goals. You set where you want to go and what you want to do. As soon as you figure that out, now you can actually get there.
Motivation Monday doesn’t help unless it pushes you towards where you want to go.
Once you get started it is discipline and persistence that gets you there. Every day you have to work on it. When you don’t want to do the thing that will push you towards your goal, that’s where pure discipline gets you going. And once you get going, persistence will keep you going in the right direction.
Last week I talked about how great things were going for me on my 75 Hard journey. Once I white-knuckled it and got going, I thought it would be easy. But in 75 days there will always be something that happens.
Last week our water softener went out and pumped all the membrane (a little fake sand that filters the water) into the pipes. I found out at 9:30 on Sunday night. Once I figure it out what it was, I had to flash all the pipes and get the water working in the house again. We had no water for a day.
Luckily I work for a car wash company that sells, repairs, and installs giant water softeners. I was able to get one and get some help installing it Monday after work. Last Monday was definitely not motivational.
I spent a couple of hours each night trying to get all the water going again. I have one faucet left after a week of work.
But I kept on doing all the things that are pushing me towards my life goals. I didn’t give up when there was an excuse to skip a day. I stayed on the 75 Hard Program.
Doing what needs to be done every day to improve you, is how you get better and reach your goals. Letting things get in the way is how you end up like most Americans, fat with high blood pressure. But as long as you are still fogging a mirror you can change where you are.
Pick your direction (your goal) and work on it every day. That’s how you win at life. That’s how you be disciplined. That’s how you get persistence.
This just doesn’t happen. You need practice. And that is what the 75 Hard Program is all about. It gives you a goal and makes you practice discipline and persistence.
I’m at day 21 and still moving forward.
What about you?
Ben Branam
The post Motivation Monday is Bullshit! Discipline and Persistence is the Way: 75 Hard Program Day 21 appeared first on 75 Hard Experience.
Next 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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