05:15 - 06:45 Obj.1.2d3 (3/2)
Audio Recording.
"Ramp Up" Mentality Must Be Replaced With A Marine Mentality
Yesterday was a failed Sunday.
Failed Sundays are unacceptable. That means that trolls are winning, and that the challenge is weak and failing.
As far as I'm concerned, this has already failed to be what it needs to be and the real consequences will follow. So I need to redefine the challenge heading into August and make some new commitments to undo the errors of my ways.
The goals ramping up does not mean the mentality should be "taking it easy" to start.
The mentality of this challenge has to be embracing pain and converting distress into eustress. Here are some new commitments along those lines:
1. I Give My Word that I will show up to every CDH.
CDH is not optional. It is TIER 1 - REQUIRED - NON-NEGOTIABLE - UNREASONABLE.
If Eric / Kris / Etc ask you if you want a drink after work, THE ANSWER IS "NO."
YOU CANNOT CHOOSE TO DISREGARD A DAY. YOU MUST PUSH THROUGH WHATEVER STANDS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR OBJECTIVE.
2. I will REPRESENT my code.
Whether it's eating w/ co-workers and choosing the salad off the menu...
Or it's skipping the 4:45pm dinner because I can't risk starting the CDH late...
Or it's taking the chance that I might lose a deal to go work out...
Or it's taking a 1 hour 40 minute lunch because, even though it's been a 1.5 hour lunch, I am committed to meditation...
Or it's getting 0 "free time" in my day because it's 8:30 and it says shut off the entertainment...
In ALL these cases, I HAVE NO CHOICE.
I MUST REPRESENT. I MUST DEFEND.
THIS WILL CAUSE PAIN AND SUFFERING.
THAT'S THE POINT. ENJOY IT. LOSE SLEEP OVER IT. FEEL PURE MISERY. LEARN TO ENJOY IT.
Because being that committed to discipline will SET YOU FREE. So represent your code. Or abandon this path.
That's what happened this Sunday. You had more or less disgraced your code - you saw that it needed to be represented and you instead disregarded it and didn't stand up to the trolls. YOU abandon the code and THE CODE WILL ABANDON YOU.
3. I will EMBRACE SUFFERING whenever, and wherever it may be.
Embracing distress in an attempt to convert to eustress is not a meant for when you're at your peak size at 9am during cold calling hours.
Converting distress to eustress is MOST IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE AT YOUR WORST. It's most important WHERE YOU WOULD NOT EXPECT IT.
This means at 9pm in bed when you can't sleep because you feel like you deserve more play time. THAT is where you reprogram and convert to eustress. THAT IS WHERE YOUR VICTORY LIES. THAT'S WHERE THIS CHALLENGE IS RECOGNIZED.
The challenge is for embracing the pain of no entertainment for days on end, and reprogramming yourself to get entertainment out of the day, not some separate free time thing that you seem to believe so strongly in.
The challenge is to eat dry chicken and enjoy your own bickering about it. And to NOT go get sauce for it when it's already 4:55, and to NOT finish the meal since the CDH is more important.
The challenge is to force yourself through massive gut wrenching pain at 5:05 on Thursday to start working... and then even more pain to push to achieve faster... to embrace that pain, to feast on it, to eat up so much that you actually start working fast through a storm of blades... THAT is this challenge.
When you hate it the most, that's when you're finally being given a real opportunity to meet this challenge and grow.
Stop enjoying your success as a 4.5. It's time to grow to the 5 level. That's what this challenge is all about.
