Let's talk about good failures
This is for the people in it for the mental aspect, particularly business owners.
We're not comfortable with failure, but sometimes if you're not at risk of failure you're not pushing hard enough.
Yesterday was exceptionally uncomfortable in ways that pushed my boundaries. It's not my first 75 Hard by any means, the program components didn't push my boundaries that hard.
I've owned a business for six years and just started a second business adjacent to it I'm getting off the ground, this 75 Hard is to dial that in getting me through a hard launch phase.
Yesterday it seemed like everything was moving slow and fast. Even though the second business is soft launched and being refined for the next 60 days I have people finding me already, that leads to rapid acceleration of some aspects of development of materials. Yesterday two new people found me.
Coincidentally, I'm on a state association and was able to spend the morning meeting with state level politicians to help influence, advance, and protect aspects of my business. It was my first time doing so.
My day started at 4 am. Despite my best plans workout one became 26 minutes in a packed day because I was beholden to the politicians schedule. Then my main business was off the rails busy, including interviewing candidates for a position between clients. We hit some system rails were now working on. I didn't hit my food goals because I didn't have time to even eat. No critical task list items for done until 8 pm. Then, when reading my pages after having resigned myself to a long night to hit the mark, I dozed off and missed the deadline waking up hours later.
No excuses, I failed 75 Hard. But, by executing my plans I pushed to a mental and, clearly, and organization/planning boundary yesterday. Yesterday was overall a huge net win, and in no way a personal failure.
I love that this is Day 1 again.