A Challenge for Today’s Environment

I’m writing this blog sitting on a 7pm whakakiangi travelling back home after a day of business in Auckland. I won’t get home until nearing 9pm after catching the ‘red eye’ which means I was up at 4.20am – it’s what you might call ‘a big day’.

Meanwhile, in the back of my mind I’m making a list of all the things I still must do before I can call it a night and you know what, bring it on! I’m not tired, I’m determined.

As a business owner, employer, boss……whatever the adjective, I’ve been fascinated with the link between health and performance. Before becoming a business owner, it was just something I did. After, I was convinced that it was a primary driver to my own ‘success’ and made it an underpinning value for the business I wanted to run and for my team to experience, hence the business value The Greatest Wealth is Health.

On the back of that value, over the years we’ve challenged our team to a whole array of physical and mental challenges. Why? Because if we’re challenging ourselves in that ‘safe’ challenge environment to overcome struggles that are put in front of us, then when ‘real’ challenges come up in business or life we should be able to vault right of them

So, if challenges are what we’ve always done, why is this challenge different and different enough to make me want to write a blog about it? Well, I can quite honestly say that 75 Hard has been the best thing I have personally done for both my physical and mental health – ever!

Over the last 75 days and more so over the last 20+ days I’ve been asked a lot of questions on what I’ve been doing, because people have noticed a change in me, both mentally and physically.

Steel sharpens steel. And mental toughness is a perishable skill that we need to keep working on. Right now, I’m on day 74 of the 75 days and I don’t intend to stop, this isn’t a challenge where you wonder when it might end, it’s a challenge where you wonder ‘how far can I go’.

In today’s society, awareness of challenges in mental health are becoming more and more apparent, people are so much more aware, and NZ as a whole is getting better at addressing this. But in my opinion, we still have a reactive mindset. We’re not doing enough preventative mental strengthening – 75 Hard is that preventative measure.

Next week I intend on writing another piece where I will share the results I’ve achieved. But for now, if you’ve got this far, I strongly recommend you take on the next step and check out the challenge here https://andyfrisella.com/pages/75hard-info

Thank you Andy Frisella – you’re a fcuking genius!!

By Daniel Bradley