A Year In Review — 2020. The Pandemic Year, Pt. 3
DO HARD SHIT: EVERY DAY
The year is coming to an end, but I am not finished yet. Like I said before, this has been a year of MASSIVE ACTION & tremendous growth in my life in all areas. To wrap the year up, I’ll still be putting in work, just in a slightly different capacity. Over the final few days of the year and quite possibly into the first few days of 2021, I’m writing my life’s book: THE BLUEPRINT.
This is the workbook I use to set my goals, intentions, and life plan with and I do this every year. I’ll spend the last quarter of the year really focused on setting myself up moving into the upcoming year just so I can take the final week or so of the year and get hyper clear on what it is I want.
With this, I set one/five/ten year and lifetime goals with very distinct action plans, why’s, top ideas on how to get them knocked out, and specific dates attached to each goal aside from the lifetime goals. This blueprint workbook also asks the really hard personal questions like, “Who do I want to be?” and “What would make me feel the greatest sense of fulfillment and joy?” and “What is my life purpose?”
There are also sections for self-reflection, strengths & weaknesses, character traits, areas of improvement, habit tracking, beliefs, visualization exercises, and protecting from the downside written activities.
This sounds like a lot and it most definitely is, but if I don’t get seriously clear on all of this, then how in the fuck will I ever make progress in my life? Progress = Happiness and if I’m not putting in the work, then I’m just getting comfortable in my life and, my friends, that’s just not acceptable to me anymore.
I know exactly what it sounds like — a bunch of fluff and BS that doesn’t really matter. But quite the contrary — these are the questions that most won’t ask. There’s an old adage that goes, “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” Getting specific with these questions, utilizing the blueprint to build my life, really digging deep down into who I Truly am as a human being, THIS is the work that needs done that most are either not willing to do or just plain won’t do.
MOST WON’T I WILL.
I mentioned this in part two of this blog series, but I’ll also be spending the final 12 hours of 2020 putting in work and attempting to break the Guiness World Record of burpees in 12 hours. The current record is 5,234 burpees in that time and I’ve set my goal at 5,300. This will be my fourth and final mental/physical challenge of the year.
Q1 was a marathon ruck in Firestone, Colorado with 60lbs (9.5hrs total)
Q2 was ultra-marathon row in Franklin, Tennessee (9hrs total)
Q3 was a flop
Q4 was a 10 mile ruck with 60lbs + 1,000 burpees AND an attempt at the world record on NYE.
I do these to keep me focused. To test my metal. To see how hard I really am. The real Me vs. Me test. I do these to force myself to do hard shit every single day of my life. I do these to feel the pain of life, the only thing that’s real and in these moments…I’m truly alive.
Here’s to 2021. No matter what comes. Stay the mother fucking course and don’t ever give up on yourself or your life.
Get busy living.
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