9/13/2023 0 Comments Zen leo babauta![]() ![]() This year, I invite you to do your own version of hard challenges. We can also get to overwork, exhaustion, overdoing it.Our minds will complain a lot about it!.Perfectionism can often come up and get in the way.We’ll find a lot of other activity to do instead.When we get hit in the face by discomfort, we’ll get a strong urge to collapse.On the other hand, the feeling of not being good enough can also be triggered.Completing it can be about the ego as well, wanting to look good is a real danger.We can white knuckle it and force our way through it, but not enjoy it.We can get tired and want to give up after awhile.The ego will get in the way - not wanting to look bad in public, for example, or not wanting to not know how to do something.Resistance is real, and can be hard to work with!.We’ll come up with reasons not to do it.All of the following challenges can be overcome - and I’ll be sharing how to do that - but there are difficulties that we should be aware of: Of course, we have to acknowledge that these don’t come without a cost. I’ll keep a log of how these go, and post about it periodically here on Zen Habits! The Challenges of Hard Challenges I’m going to pick 8 of these to do after my cold swimming challenge - again, you can help me pick with this quick survey. I’m still forming the other challenges (vote for what I should do in this quick survey) … but here are some others I have in mind, 40 days each: We do some Wim Hof-style breathing before we dive in, then count 3-2-1 and jump into the air! It has shown us that we can do hard things every day, and has been a meaningful bonding experience for us. The first challenge, which I started January 1, is jumping into a cold pool everyday with two of my sons. So I’m going to prove all of that with a series of 40-day challenges where I face my own discomfort and fear. Our growth and learning is greatest when the comfort zone ends, and it can also be the most meaningful and joyful parts of our lives as well. These are some of the most meaningful things we can do, and they teach us so much! ![]() Show us what our patterns are when we feel discomfort & uncertainty - if we don’t challenge ourselves to do hard things, it’s almost impossible to see what our patterns are, except of course the avoidance of doing hard thingsĮach of you has done something hard, maybe many hard things: run a marathon, given birth, raised kids, completed hard projects, dealt with relationship or health difficulties, and much more.Help us to grow in new and unexpected ways.Give ourselves evidence of our resilience, grit, determination, commitment.Prove that we have the courage to do what we fear. ![]()
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