Week 4 - 75D/Accountability & Purpose
It’s officially been one month!
How four weeks has gone by is beyond me! It does mean however, that we are close to halfway done with this challenge which I admit, does make me happy!
Paul and I had a pretty lengthy discussion about this today and our feelings about how things are going. Doing a challenge like this is so tough if you don’t have 1) accountability and 2) an overall purpose for doing it.
Both of us are kind of struggling with both of those things. Our only real accountability is with each other…and I have one added layer of accountability with my weekly updates. Which is really just me holding myself accountable because I can pretty much say whatever I want here and no one will know. Its hard to hold each other accountable though mainly because we are also mostly lacking in #2 above.
After all the stress of the latter part of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, waiting to get into the house, delays, moving and then all of the resulting chaos…things had finally settled down a bit which is why we wanted to challenge ourselves with something. Life on the road and the constant go go go was a stark difference from the slowness and comfort of our new house. We knew we wanted to clean up our eating, push ourselves to get more active and overall have more discipline.
But neither of us have an overall purpose or goal for the challenge other than to do it. When this happens, the resulting motivations tend to dwindle. It’s easier to make excused and “let yourself off the hook”.
The fact that I altered the official 75 Hard challenge to suit what I wanted to do also affected us. Since Paul and I wouldn’t be doing the exact same things every day it added another level of ambiguity.
All of this to say, we are still doing the challenge. We are learning a lot about ourselves in the process, how having a big goal to accomplish really does matter when you are feeling the burnout. The desire to give up because “what does it really matter anyway?” is really starting to set in which leads back to those two things I mentioned above.
I am proud that every single day for the last 28 days I have done a 30+ minute walk. I have missed a couple of stretches and I’m not measuring my water intake, but I know I’m super close to hitting a gallon a day. I have read every day, missed one day of writing and have not scrolled insta once since starting. Even though I don’t have an overarching goal, the discipline of doing something every single day with no breaks is becoming a goal of it’s own.
