Maintaining Habits When You Are Out of Routine; 75 Hard Challenge Update
You have to set yourself up for success when you are going out of routine.
Week-four has come to an end and let me tell you, it came with a new set of challenges.
The majority of this challenge has been quite simple and straightforward. However, this past weekend I left town for 36 hours, which meant I had to be prepared.
Typically when you are going to be out of routine, you don’t have to think much about it.
You go with the flow, but still make the best choices based on when your goals are. You don’t have to stress to stay with the same routine everyday, you just try to maintain the same habits. You then integrate back into to normal life after.
This was different because I still needed to maintain the challenge rules. I needed to set myself up prior to leaving for success to complete this challenge the right way. Because remember, I couldn’t eat out, I had to exercise twice a day, and still make time to read.
I stayed successful by:
Planning when I will do my exercises- two Saturday morning, and two Sunday evening
Sunday was difficult to get through because I was so tired from the weekend and driving. I had to complete the 45 minute exercise outside in the dark and cold. Definitely not ideal but we pushed through!
Prepped food: packed an already made dinner of chicken, hard boiled eggs for the morning, and cheese, turkey, and nuts for lunch. I packed extra of that snack like food just in case I got hungry. Not being able to grab a bag of chips or some warm French fries to munch on for the drive was hard!
I almost forgot to read Saturday night, but right before I fell asleep I got my 10 pages in.
If I just had figured it out as I went, I would have failed.
This particular goal is not one you can figure out on a whim. It is supposed to be a mental challenge over physical. Yes physically hard because you are putting your body through two workouts, and one outside in the cold. However, it’s the mental game thats more precedent over anything else.
When it comes to most goals, people don’t use their mental strength and capacity to set themselves up for completion.
They just decide how to “figure it out along the way.” This leads to the lack of success. So for the 75 Hard Challenge being a mental difficulty, it is because people have to adopt a new skill of setting themselves up, thinking ahead, being prepared, and organizing and scheduling their time.
It is not easy always being ten steps ahead, but once you acquire that skill, you can really succeed at any goal you set.
