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Vanity has never been a good motivator for me to 'get in shape' or eat healthier, but I recently saw two friends doing 75 Hard, and one them mentioned the discipline and mental toughness she was experiencing.

That piqued my curiosity. So I reached out to her and she sent me the podcast episode explaining what exactly 75 Hard is. 

Before I tell you why I decided to do it, I'll tell you what's required: 

For 75 days:

• read 10 pages of a self-improvement book
• work out twice a day for 45 mi
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Fear. Dan Peña says he doesn’t have any. How do you get to that point?

Fear is an ugly thing, a limiting thing. I know our brains are wired to protect ourselves and therefore “fear” comes alive to stop us from doing the thing that might harm us, but it really is a ball and chain.

But there’s freedom when you push past it. Do you believe that?

Most things we’re afraid of aren’t as bad as we think they are… or will be.

A couple of years ago, my dad, husband, and I went dirt bike riding...

My older brother just opened his first gym, and it wasn’t something he planned on doing.

He lives in a small Texas town that has no gym other than the school, and they weren’t allowed to work out there, so he built a small shed in his backyard and stocked it with the equipment he’d been using in his master bedroom. 

After the shed was built, some of his friends would come over and use it, and being that it was really the only place to work out in the town, he decided he would allow other...

I was a big time follower in elementary, junior high, and early high school. I did what my friends were doing, I didn’t want to sit alone in the cafeteria, I didn’t want to be left out of things, so I always followed. I didn’t want to be by myself feeling awkward.

At a certain point in high school, my brain switched and life got sooo much better.

I don’t recall the details, but I know that there was something I really wanted to do. It was like I had denied most of my wants up to that ...

I’d say that’s a pretty accurate description of how I’m feeling about my life right now… the story of the bamboo taking years to get its roots before shooting above ground.

I know things are happening. I’m a part of them. But I can’t see them. What I don’t know is when the soil is gonna break and the reason I’ve been created is fully exposed.

At the moment, I have several business ideas. I’ve been working on myself. I’ve been planning and reading and writing and noting and reviewing and ...

It baffles me when people aren’t up for hearing truth. I don’t mean truth in the Jesus sense of the Truth, but in the, “Hey, I’ve recognized this about you and thought you’d like to know” kind of way.

I say this because when I go around my family, I notice things. We’re not around each other all the time, so the differences stand out to me, just as they stand out to my family when I go around them.

A simple example of this is that one of my nieces started clearing her throat – a lot. I m...

The other day, I was brainstorming and thinking of all the things my parents had said to me when I was younger that broke my spirit, made me feel less than, killed my confidence, or wounded me so bad that I never forgot them.

Parenting had been on my mind at the time, and I was thinking of why I turned out like I did. I often think of the way my parents raised me and how I want to raise my kids.

After really thinking back to the times I got in trouble, the times I tried something and ...

Have you ever found yourself wanting to know when someone’s gonna FaceTime you? Or wanting to know when someone’s gonna stop by your place?

I’ve felt that way many times, but recently I’ve been thinking why. Why do I want to know? I’d love the call or the company so do I really need to know beforehand?

I realized it’s not me that wants to know, it’s my ego.

My ego wants to make sure my hair isn’t crazy, my ego wants to make sure I have on a little make-up, my ego wants my house to be...

A couple of things I’d impart to my younger self:

Always hold onto that feeling of being made fun of. You know why. Once you know how it feels to be made fun of, you don’t want to make anyone else feel that way. So, hold your tongue when you think you’re about to ‘make a joke’ about someone else. To them, it may hurt their heart more than you’ll ever know.

Travel. As soon as you can, travel. You can go after high school. You can go after college. You can go for 2 months – or 2 years. But...

I looked at my Amazon wish list today and realized about 90% of it is books. I’m actually proud of this because there was a point in my life where the last thing I thought about was reading.

Thinking back to what sparked my reading was one very specific book.

Several years ago, we started talking about books at my job. I mentioned how I don’t like to read but wish that I did. One of the girls said there was a book that I would love.

I thought, yeah, we’ll see about that, but I was up for chec...