Swapping to Personal Rings and 75 Hard

I hadn’t planned on swapping from A5 to Personal Rings and taking on 75 Hard at the same time, yet here we are.

My decision to swap from A5 to Personal was about convenience, portability, and a bit of social media influence.

The decision to start 75 Hard was honestly born from a mid-40s woman not happy with how her life was going. Let me back up. I am happy with a lot of aspects of my life and grateful beyond measure, but at the same time, I know in the deepest parts of my heart and soul, I was really living a half-lived life and letting the same played-out excuses control me.

This isn’t my first weight loss and health improvement rodeo, and I think part of the hesitation, or the failure to start, was deeply rooted in shame and embarrassment for “getting back here” yet… again.

I could justify the why, but that was just enabling the behavior.

Full honesty, the swap to Personal was a bit of a dopamine hit, yet a functional one as well. I hadn’t really been planning my days as of late and found myself picking up my planner less and less. Instead, I was in my business and finance planners more often.

All of this stems from my A5 being more of a functional monthly and weekly planner, not a compact personal system with lists, trackers, and then the functional monthly, weekly, and dailies.

Now, my planner houses it all, including my 75 Hard trackers.

When I looked at my days, I was filling them with filler, not needle-moving activities and actions for me. Client work was, and is, getting done, but when it came to things I needed to do for me, I was pushing them off to the side.

Jumping into 75 Hard on March 30th without much more of a plan than focusing on the critical tasks for Day 1 was all I needed. And then on March 31st, I focused on the critical tasks for that day, and so on.

As I type this, we are on the final day of week one, which falls on a holiday, and the old me would have come up with excuses, wouldn’t have started on the 30th, and definitely would have said, “I’ll start on Monday.”