Looking back on the past few weeks. I didn’t make decent progress in reading and not much on running. I don’t know why, as long as you choose to lay down each time, there is always time needed to get back to being motivated. The period of time without any achievement can be painful and meaningless idles. More often than not, sickness or other unhappy moods would get you just in time to prolong the pain. 

It’s easy to fall into this trap, but there’s a solution. I’ve been reading about the 75 Hard Challenge on Instagram for a while and think it’s the perfect way to break free from this cycle and finally take control.

Stop Attracting Negative Energy

I twisted my waist, so I can’t walk properly for the last week, though I managed to walk slowly to the gym to move my upper body and go for a bit of cycling. Then I got hit by another bike, more scratches to heal from. It’s much easier to run into trouble, and it’s nothing but science, because you signaled your body saying, “I want to rest.”

Our bodies need rest mostly because of the pain or injury. Sleeping every day for 7 or 8 hours is enough rest for the body. If you push for more, then the hospital is the best entrance to stay lazy. I mean, as long as you get enough sleep and eat well, there’s little chance your body will want some rest. More rest is an excuse from your mentality that you don’t want to work hard and that you don’t feel motivated.

I understand it’s easy to feel unmotivated because we are born lazy and always want to stay in that little comfort zone. But for those who want to grow and who are willing to take on new experiments for their lives. Motivations are everywhere, waiting for you to spot them.

Get Out to Find Your Motivation – It Is Everywhere

Just this morning I woke up from a lingering bad mood. I knew I couldn’t be like this any longer, so I headed to the gym and started my day with sweating. I did still make my weekly plan to fulfill my New Year’s Resolution 2024. But lately I can feel that I made the plan for the plan’s sake; I didn’t fulfill each and every task consistently. For some days I read all day like a beast thirst of letters, but for the others I don’t read at all.

In general, I’m pretty displined because I love to be active and feel motivated. But what’s lacking in me is consistency. I need to stick to certain things that really matter to my overall building. That was exactly the reason why I started tracking my daily output for my new year resolution.

It’ doesn’t matter how productive you can be for one day; what matters most is how consistent you can be for each and every day. So I decided to take on the 75 Hard Challenge, not tomorrow but today. I wrote down the rules and put them on my wall:

1. Follow a diet with no cheat meals and no alcohol.
2. Complete two 45-minute workouts each day, and one of them must be outdoors.
3. Drink one gallon of water every day.
4. Read 10 pages of nonfiction (self-improvement or business) each day.
5. Take a daily progress photo.

I know I can do it because the tasks are really like my daily routine on my good days. The only challenge is to keep doing it for 75 days straight, whether it is on rainy days or during my moody period each month.

People can be productive and active on good days, but the accumulation of life quality is devoted both on good and bad days. If you allow yourself to ponder too much on bad mood, there will only be more bad mood for you to ponder about. So stop, just go challenge yourself more!