As painful as this is to write after reading my last post, the last 3.5 days were a writeoff.
On Friday, I played golf and then afterwards went to the pub with my partner for a few drinks and hot chips. This wasn’t so bad but came home and had dessert so this all chipped away at my fitness goals.
Saturday we went to a pub for lunch which was planned (after running 20km), and then got invited around to some friends for dinner. I ate too much at their place and drank probably 7-8 beers over the day.
However I then saved my worst for Sunday. We went for a nice bike ride and ended up stopping at a pub and I had a few beers and some pizza for lunch. When we got home mid-arvo I carried on drinking because the NRL grand final was on at 9.30pm and I wanted to watch it. So I drank 6 more beers at home, then went to a pub and had 5 more. I got home about midnight. At the pub I had some hot chips, and I also gambled $500 on the game I was watching and lost that money.
Monday I was hungover and was tired from the late night. I didn’t exercise and I struggled to work because of the comedown from the weekend. I ate like shit mostly on sugary food.
Those days are not aligned with my goals. I’m not on day 30 of this so-called mission but I’m not working hard, I’m not making good decisions, and I’m not progressing with my fitness goals or financial goals.
I need a circuit breaker. I know that I do my best work when I make extreme change. So I’ve decided to make some extreme change.
From today, I will not consume alcohol, consume any sweet junk food, gamble, or look at the news or sports news, until I have $1m of cash in my bank accounts. This is an extreme goal but food, sport, news, and alcohol are the major reasons why I’m not succeeding.
I cannot go on like this anymore so these are now the rules I’m playing by. I found three keys when I was doing 75 hard:
- Make a plan that will be executed
- Say no to alternatives
- Have alternative options for when mood gets low so we don’t self-sabotage (meditate, journal, stretch, read, learn, walk)
On top of this, there are three guiding principles:
- Make small, good decisions
- I can act in spite of how I feel
- We are always in control of our thoughts and we can shape them at any time
I’m committed to making this money and a large part of it is being able to sit at my desk and move forward without distraction, and build our systems.