5 Mental Shifts From Doing #75Hard Challenge (NOTE: It’s Not Physical)
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In this episode, I share with you the 5 mental shifts that happened to me while doing a program called 75 Hard. It looks like a physical transformation program, but I'm telling you, it was all mental. And be sure to stay at the end to hear the whole video where I unpack the best practices, the bigger and deeper lessons learned, and talk with my accountability partner, Martin Laculipe, so that you can do it in the best shape and form possible.
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serial entrepreneur, investor, and creator of SaaS Academy.
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It looks like a physical transformation program,
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we're gonna tell you how to view the whole video
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talk with my accountability partner, Martin Laculipe,
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you can do it in the best shape and form possible.
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So the program 75 hard is a challenge, 75 days,
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Now I first heard about this over a year and a half ago,
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two years ago, he has a podcast called the MFCEO Project, which has now been renamed to
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Real AF. And in it, he started talking about what it would take to build mental toughness. What would
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the strategies, the cadence, the tactics to really build confidence, to build grit, to build
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just somebody that attacks things in life. And I heard this and I was like, man, I really like
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where Andy's going with this. And a few months later, my buddy Keith is literally one of my
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best friends, he started doing 75 hard. And I was just so proud of him because I mean,
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the program is ridiculous. It's two workouts a day, 45 minutes each. One of them has to be done
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outside. Four liters of water, gallon of water every day. No cheat meals, no alcohol, a strict
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diet. So you got to pick a diet if you want to do paleo or kind of a macro-based diet.
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10 pages of reading per day and a progress pick.
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And if you, in a 75-day window, miss any one of those,
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have one bite of sugar if that's not on your diet plan
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even doing two workouts at the same time back-to-back,
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which I thought as an Ironman trainer, as a triathlon,
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You know, I feel good of my progress and my life.
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But it wasn't till, you know, a long time after,
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with my two training partners, Nick and Maltin,
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I did not wanna sacrifice, you know, the time in my life.
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and the unlock for me is when I heard it described
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even though I was running a marathon six weeks later
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and they even say, don't substitute, don't add stuff.
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and I wasn't even gonna share my journey on social media,
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but I'm the kind of guy that likes to shine my light
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from my coaching clients to my followers on social media.
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And I wanna share with you those five big shifts.
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and we're just talking about kind of the revelations
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we had up to that point and kind of the thoughts
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other people's limiting beliefs, other people's excuses.
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For example, one of them that comes up often is,
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I don't think working out twice a day is healthy for you.
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that the level of intensity means two CrossFit workouts per day.
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heartbeat, 180 beats per minute, 45 minutes twice a day.
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to focus on your health, your physical well-being.
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and I'd be like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
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I didn't ask myself, like, does this make sense?
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If you're Neo, you know, seeing, you know,
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the more I was willing to just like honor the headspace
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I started to see other people's limiting story.
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And there's this great book called The Big Leap
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that talks about the upper limit problem, ULPs or alts.
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and you start to see other people talking about,
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even to the point where it's physical self-sabotage,
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like, oh, I injured myself, I can't work out today.
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meaning you can't take it off while you're at the machine
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And I was walking to the gym with a friend of mine
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that's deeper about, you know, giving them an excuse,
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is seeing limiting stories from other people around you
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and mind shifts or tools that I received doing the program.
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Now, this is gonna be a tough one for a lot of people,
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is this 100% accountability to my day, to my calendar,
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Like all the different things from waking up earlier,
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getting at least two or three liters of water in before noon,
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there's no, there's no, like, I can't decide to do it or not.
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even being accountable for the thoughts that would show up.
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And more importantly, there's two things I wanna share
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is the accountability, not only to the thoughts,
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So what was interesting is there were moments now
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where when people triggered me, I used to blame them.
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but what I discovered, and this is crazy, I know,
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but it was just somebody else, would that bug me as much?
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that when they ask you questions about your life,
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But that other parent, if they ask those same questions
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in the same tonality from the same sentence structure,
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And it's because there's something about the tonality
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that I think most people would feel uncomfortable to get to
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or saying that no matter what people say or do to me,
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externally, my story, my reaction, my triggers,
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Now here's the second part of the two things, that's one.
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Two is, well, if there's people that I care about
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then I also know that it's not me that's upsetting them,
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it's their own meaning they associate to that interaction.
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But being 100% accountable now or 110% accountable,
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If I don't wanna create that friction in my life,
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then is there something I can change about my interactions?
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That's a really big level of accountability, I think,
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and people triggers that most people don't realize
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is that there's how you react and respond to people
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And then there's how you make other people feel
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you might have to say, hey, I'm gonna change my approach.
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And that level of accountability and people triggers,
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I thought was just, I wouldn't have gotten there
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So when you read all the literature on 75 Hard,
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But one of the things that you hear over and over
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Some people will be like, well, I wanna wake up at 5 a.m.
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But I had a marathon that we had already scheduled.
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So I realized that I'm gonna not only have to train
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but then I still have to do a second workout, right?
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that could be going to the gym and lifting weights.
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and it was taxing on my body to the point that,
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It's not for me, I'm never gonna do this again.
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Like just everything was left out on the field.
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I went out and I did my second workout during Halloween.
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And like, this is the part that's crazy to me is I already thought I was a high physical performer, right?
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In regards to triathlons and Ironmans and CrossFit and lifting weights.
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And there's a great book called Living with the Seal that the author talks about, you know, the seal ended up being David Goggins.
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And he's wrote an incredible book on mindset, mental toughness.
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But, you know, he has a famous quote that says,
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when you think you're done, you're only at 40%.
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And I think a lot of people don't realize how true this is.
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And for me, going through this process of scheduling the two workouts
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and the intensity and training for the marathon
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and still training now for, you know, the full Ironman next season,
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it just made me realize, again, just how much more is left in the tank,
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And a lot of people are playing a really small game.
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Like I just believe that that's just a good fundamental place
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get your sweat on. And that's part of it. So the physical possibilities was a big revelation and
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a shift for me. The fourth shift, learning volume. So this is the crazy part. One of the elements,
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as I mentioned, is 10 pages per day of a nonfiction personal development book. And, you know, I've
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always read 10 pages a day for probably the last 15 years. Okay. 100% compliance? No. Was it maybe
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be like, I would say on average, four to five days a week, every morning is part of my morning
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ritual, depending on a lot of things. But what's changed is the learning volume and the quality
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of understanding. So when I read doing 75 hard, because I don't have sugar in my body,
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because I don't have, you know, gluten, because I'm at a higher level of physical capacity,
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my ability to consume not only volume and desire to consume has gone way up and the learning and
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the depth of the learning has gone way up. Meaning that the creativity I have around the content I'm
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consuming, connecting the dots, finding the through line, correlating the strategic ideas
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from the information is like, I don't know how to explain it, but it's almost like I took a smart
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pill. And when I'm studying, I'm, I'm better at reading. Right. And, and that, if that was the
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only benefit, it would be worth 10 times that investment because at the end of the day, there's
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two things you need to do in your life. One, you got to be 110% accountable for, for your
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circumstances, period and full stop. I believe that in my, my heart. And two, you got to get
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really good at solving problems. And if you can do those two things, especially by consuming
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information, it's going to help you learn how to be a better problem solver. And because of the
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program, go deeper on the understanding and get higher volume because you're able to read faster,
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you'll be able to comprehend faster. You're going to want to, you have a desire. So yeah,
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10 pages was the minimum. Did I go over? Many days. Why? Because I was fascinated, intrigued.
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I was seeing the results in my life by getting new perspective and applying it to my businesses. So
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yes, learning volume was huge and unexpected mental shift. And the last mental shift, number
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five was loving to do hard things. So what's crazy is I've, you know, being a martel, it's part of
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our values. We do hard things. Okay. I teach it to my kids. I talk to them about it all the time.
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I realized that all greatness exists on the other side of pain. Anything worth having is going to
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require a challenge and overcoming the challenge is the price of admission to live and get results
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in your life. Okay. There's no way you can fast track that. If you try, you'll end up back where
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you start. So hard things has always been part of it. But here's the difference. The big mental
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shift that happened during the 75 hard challenge is I've now come to want and appreciate and look
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for hard things. So let me unpack that. When I was doing the program, there were days when it was so
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nice outside. I was like, this isn't 75 hard. It is beautiful. Somebody, uh, mentioned, messaged
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me on Instagram and said, I live in San Diego. Am I cheating? You know, because it's beautiful all
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time and and it's not that they're cheating but I started to look how to make it harder right so
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you know when I went to the gym and they had mandatory mask and obviously that makes breathing
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between sets or going really heavy leg presses or you know some cardio would be incredibly tough
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I I kind of was excited about it I was like whoa cool another hard thing yeah when it was snowing
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outside I was excited it's harder outside when it's cold and freezing rain outside and I gotta
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go outside or even worse this is crazy but there was days where I would work out on my road bike
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in the morning go to the gym at lunch think I got my two workouts in guess what I forgot to do one
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outside isn't that crazy and I was pumped I was like boom this is when most people give up I still
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have to like close my eyes to rectify this so I ended up doing three workouts I probably ended up
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doing three workouts a day probably a dozen times throughout the program for whatever reason right
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because sometimes it was like a family hike I wanted to do but I still want to get these two
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other components done or had to get it done for my, for my Ironman coach. And I just ended up
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learning to love and look forward to hard things before I would do them almost from the perspective
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of, you know, this is hard. So I'm okay doing it. And I know I should do it. Now this new mental
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wiring, where is like, I want it to be hard. I want to push myself into challenges. I want
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to lean in and that combined with everything else I shared is why I think that you know even if the
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program was a million bucks it'd be 10 times worth that like if if you are feeling like you don't
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have enough grit confidence mental toughness endurance consistency in your life a higher
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level of standards for yourself if there's anything about that that resonates with you I
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want to highly encourage you that you do the 75 hard program. And just so you know, it's the
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beginning. It's a bootcamp. There's actually a bigger program called live hard, but just start
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with the 75 days. And even if you fail, and many of the people that follow me on social media that
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said, Hey, I started this, trust me, they didn't finish a very small percentage of people finish.
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But the good news is you can start back at any point. You can start back at day one and work
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through it and discover your own mental shifts and beliefs that are not physical. Guess what?
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The physical transformation, the being in the best shape of my life, which did occur
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is a net benefit, but it wasn't why I did this program. I did it for everything up here because
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I'm always asking myself, what's the next gear? What's the next level? What do I need to believe?
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What are the things I believe that I got to get rid of to create space to learn a new level of
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build that mental toughness for you to get better.
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So as I mentioned at the beginning of this episode,
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and the best practices and what we discovered along the way
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And what does it feel like now that we've finished that?
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You can click the link below to watch that whole session.
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