WEBVTT - THIS FREE CHALLENGE CHANGED MY LIFE! You need to know about this... 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.560 Sugar Mama's Fireplay. I am your host financial planner Canna Campbell. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.440 In today's episode is a little bit different. I want 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:12.920 to share with you a fun challenge that I did 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:17.360 that costs absolutely nothing but really has had quite an 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.480 impact in my life. Even Tom, who's my biggest fan 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:22.440 but also my biggest critic, has said this has been 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.920 quite transformational, and I am inclined to agree. Some habits, 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:33.240 some attitudes, some lifestyle choices have really shifted. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.639 And changed for the better of my life. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.199 And I want to share with you exactly what I 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:41.680 did why, and also share with you why I'm going 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.120 to do it all over again and invite you to 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.960 join me. Now, what am I talking about. I'm talking 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.680 about the seventy five Challenge, which you may have seen 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.920 me post sporadically on my Instagram account Canna Campbell Official, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.160 as well as obviously the Sugar Mama Instagram account. I'm 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.040 going to go back a bit and explain first of all, 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.000 what the seventy five challenge is, and it's often known 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:10.640 as seventy five hard. So this is a transformative mental 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.760 toughness challenges called and It was created by a guy 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.800 called Andy Faesel, and it is designed to help you 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.480 develop certain areas in your life or characteristics that you 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.480 lack and to change them for the better and to 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:31.800 make long term change. Now with seventy five Hard, it 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.160 is something you're sort of five or six rules that 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.640 you follow every single day and if you and you 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:39.760 have to do it for seventy five days straight. Now, 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.119 if you skip one of those five rules or break 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.440 one of those five rules during the seventy five Hard Challenge, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.760 you're supposed to go back to day one and start 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.280 all over again. But here are the rules that you're 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.800 supposed to follow for Hard seventy five, and that is 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.120 you stick to one diet of your choice. You drink 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.600 no alcohol. You have to exercise or twice a day, 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:07.080 with each exercise being a minimum of forty five minutes, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.320 and one of those exercises has to be actually performed 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.480 outside in the sunlight, in the elements, in the fresh air. 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:16.919 You also have to drink four and a half liters 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.680 of water, and you have to take a daily photograph, 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.440 and you have to read at least ten pages of nonfiction. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:25.960 And some people say you also have to do ten 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:31.639 minutes of journaling. Now you do come out the other 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.920 side as a different person, and as Andy Fizzel, the 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.560 founder of this challenge, he says, you'll come out a 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.440 far more disciplined person and someone very very different. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:43.639 Now. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.560 I didn't do hard seventy five. I did, you could 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:52.080 say soft seventy five. I created my own rules because 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.520 I knew that hard seventy five was completely unrealistic for me, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.000 and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I knew that 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.320 I didn't have the time to be exercising twice today, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.880 each time for forty five minutes. I'm not someone who 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.720 has a problem with alcohol. I enjoy the occasional glass 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.120 of champagne. But it did to me quitting alcohol for 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.799 seventy five days didn't really add any value. And I also, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:16.799 you know, I drink a lot of water anyway, so 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.480 I didn't really see the point of the forty four 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:19.880 and a half laters. And to me, that seemed a 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.680 bit excessive. But I really wanted to do something like this. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.240 I was feeling a little bit lost. I wanted something 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.280 to sink my teeth in and to give me a 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.280 point of focus. And I guess I was curious to 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:34.880 see what was what was this all about. It's quite 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.760 a viral trend at the moment on social media, and 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.160 actually my O pair who's living this at the moment, 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.960 she was doing it and I was seeing it. You know, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.080 I was really inspired by her. So I decided to 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.320 jump on this bandwagon. And I actually want to do it, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:50.840 but I wanted to keep it realistic. So I actually 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.360 created my own rules, and these are the rules that 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.440 I did for my version of seventy five. So I 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:01.280 did six workouts per week for a minimum of thirty 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:06.280 five minutes. I journaled every morning for at least ten minutes. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.720 I also use this as an opportunity to get things 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.360 done that I'd been putting off or had blocks around 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.560 for the last six to nine months, including the Jamie 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:22.040 Ryder Rising Phoenix Mindset program. So I agreed, okay, what 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.560 I'm doing it. If I'm going to do seventy five, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.200 I'm going to make sure I do at least, you know, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.400 ten minutes a day of this particular program and aimed 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.560 to try and finish it. I also read for at 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.960 least ten minutes every morning and sorry at least ten 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:40.040 pages of nonfiction, and I pretty much did this, and 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.880 I also towards as I finished the Jamie Rider program, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.360 which I successfully completed within the seventy five days, I 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:52.480 shifted that to some goal setting manifestation work. Now, what 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.160 I also did is I would say I stuck to this. Honestly, 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.280 I reckon about eighty seven percent of the time. And 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.560 where for example, maybe I did only five workouts and 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.320 so six workouts for the week, I made sure that 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.719 when I did do workouts, I trained for forty five 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.920 minutes instead of thirty five, so I could make up 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.200 for those days that I lost. And there are plenty 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.360 of days also where I read for more than ten 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.640 minutes or I read more than ten pages, and there 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.360 were days where I definitely journaled for a lot longer. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.320 Now one of the. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.200 Ways that I stuck to this, and I'm actually surprised 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.520 as to how easy for me it was to stick 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.360 to I got out of bed, which I do every 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.440 day normally at five am, but I had I did 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.479 a couple of things before I went to bed to 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.400 make sure that I would hit the ground running and 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.359 not get distracted and jump off my phone or have 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.560 a conversation with Tom. So I actually left my notebook 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.919 and pen out on the sofa, so the moment I 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.120 sat down the sofa, I could immediately start journaling. I 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.640 also scheduled in my diary as to when I was 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.000 going to do the exercises, like what worked with the 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.680 kid's routine, when I'd have a quick break to myself 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:01.480 to pop down to the. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:02.800 Gym or where. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.560 You know, how was I going to efficiently ensure that 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.880 I got that thirty five minutes of exercise? And I 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.920 found that, you know, I would actually go and take 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.880 the dogs for a walk and walk past some of 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.880 the outdoor gyms and just stop there for thirty five 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:16.840 minutes into a whole pile of exercise while the dogs 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.719 were running around. And you know, I would also put 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.880 my book that I was reading at the time, you know, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.799 also next to the journal, so the moment I finished 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.320 the journal, I would go straight to my book. 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.520 And I also spoke about this. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.960 I think putting it out on social media is obviously 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.880 makes you accountable. It does put a little bit of 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.880 pressure yourself because you really want to maintain it, but 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.000 it and I also left my exercise gear out, so 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.839 you know, I'd get straight into my exercise gear, so 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.240 I'd be ready to do some sort of exercise while thinking, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:43.560 oh gosh, it's cold, I don't want to have to 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.920 change my warm clothes, you know, stripped down and put 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.479 on my exercise gear, and I think, you know, talking 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.520 about it to other people and really paying attention to 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.839 how I felt after doing exercise, how I felt after journaling. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.920 It really actually made me realize how powerful this is 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.480 and how much I'm learning about myself and how I'm 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.479 actually evolving. So for me, it actually wasn't hard to 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.800 stick to. I will admit, though not I didn't follow 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.160 the rule of if I missed or didn't successfully complete 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.480 each day. I didn't punish myself by going back to 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.320 day one. I just continued on, pushed on, and as 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.080 I said, I tried to make it up for other 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.480 days so that, you know, when you average it all out, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.760 I was pretty much close to being you know, one 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.680 hundred percent as best I could. So this is it 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.240 wasn't about being mean or punishing myself. It was about 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:37.200 enjoying the process and making it empowering, making exciting and 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.760 ripping all the beautiful benefits from doing this. Now, how 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.600 did this challenge help me? And I'd say, it helped 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:48.320 me so much. So it created some amazing habits and 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.480 gave me a beautiful sense of direction and structure, particularly 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.360 to my mornings. I'm someone who really likes to get 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:56.520 a lot of things done in the first half of 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:57.800 the day so I can take my foot off the 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.720 gas and relax a bit. And for someone who ADHD, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.440 that is someone something I find really really helpful if 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.480 I just try and get as much done and then 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.200 I can kind of let my brain go a bit wild, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.120 you know, after one o'clock. Of course, obviously, going from 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.559 someone who does exercise two to three times a week 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:20.000 going to exercise six days per week, wow, I felt 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.400 so much stronger. I looked so much leaner and toned, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:29.040 and my posture is so much better also from my journaling. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.960 But I will say it was the one where I 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.840 was like really journaling, like oh, that's so not me 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.120 that probably had the biggest best uplift for me. I 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.280 didn't realize how much journaling helps get the clutter, the noise, 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:48.320 the anxiety out of your head and body down onto 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.840 paper where you get a sense of perspective and you 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.880 can just release it all. And it was I felt 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.240 mentally a lot happier and a lot calmer, and my 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.720 hand right from journaling every day improved out of sight. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.640 In fact, I would even go a spar as saying, 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:10.480 my handwriting is actually really beautiful and really elegant now 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.880 after journaling every single day, I also noticed that I 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.800 felt way more creative. I'm someone who gets, I guess 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.520 very easily inspired anyway, but I would get this wave 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.520 of inspiration where ten ideas would hit me at one time. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.960 In doing this challenge, I found that my creative ideas 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:36.240 came to me consistently, but in a gentle flow throughout 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.840 the day, rather than less literally, you know, having ten 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.400 ideas being catapulted into my brain at the same time. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.880 It was like there was a beautiful flow or rhythm 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.560 of ideas coming to me throughout the day consistently. I 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.880 also felt, from you know, whilst doing this challenge, a 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:57.840 lot more emotionally resilient, as you may know from my socials, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:03.200 My King, my big baby Giuseppe by Chocolate Labrador. He 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.280 actually passed away towards the end of this challenge, and 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.880 you know, he's someone who has been through with me 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.200 everything and I've had His twelve was twelve years old 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.280 and he's helped me get through severe post natal depression 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.600 post from my extress syndrome. He was actually my profile 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.360 picture on Happen, which is like it was the old 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.360 online dating website. When I met Tom, and he sadly 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.439 passed away from cancer. He went downhill very quickly and 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:36.400 it was absolutely heartbreaking, and I'm still really impacted by this. 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:40.520 But I think from doing this particular challenge, and very 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.800 much so incorporating the Jamie Ryder Rising Phoenix Program as 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.880 part of this challenge for me, it made me a 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.400 lot more mentally resilient. And I will make a separate 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.839 episode about the Jamie Rider Mindset program because I think 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.520 it was really powerful but particularly important for people who 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.840 are who need to get therapy but can't afford it 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.440 right now. So I'm want to do a completely separate 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.679 episode that so make sure you're obviously following the show, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.320 because I promise I will get this created this episode 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.960 for you as soon as physically possible. But in doing 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.320 the Jami Writer Program and should I did between five 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.680 to twenty minutes a day as part of this seventy 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.640 five challenge the Jami Writer Program, and one of the 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.480 things was you had to write seventy five blessings in 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.520 disguise of a particular trauma or event in your life 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.360 that was holding you back. Now, because I completed the 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.160 Jami Writer program within this challenge, I when I finished, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.880 and obviously this happened to Giuseppe, I decided to take 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.400 that exercise of seventy five blessings and apply it to Giuseppe. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.679 And I think I'm up to, you know, so far, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.440 thirty five blessings from Giuseppe. And you know, it's a 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.200 beautiful skill that I've learned that I've incorporated back into 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.319 this challenge so and it's definitely helping me get out 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.040 of that whole of sadness and grief and heartache you 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.920 know that comes with losing someone that means so much 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.679 to you. To stepping into a place of gratitude or 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:00.800 I'm so lucky you to have had some beautiful bond 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.400 with this animal. I'm so lucky to have had him 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.800 in my life for you know, twelve years. I'm so 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.440 lucky for all the wonderful things that he taught me, 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.840 and he taught my children, and I'm so lucky to 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.960 have him by my side helping me raise three young 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.679 children as well. So you know, if for me, incorporating 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.760 a strong element of personal growth rather than just health 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.360 and fitness was really valuable, I'd also say that doing 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.560 this challenge is giving me a great sense of confidence 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.400 and self worth. I mean, seventy five day challenge, it's 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.240 a lot. There are so many distractions, there are so 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.199 many temptations. There are days where it was pouring with rain. 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.120 It was I think it rained for like five days straight, 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.680 and I still exercised every day, even if it meant 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.040 putting on a raincoat and exercising outside and you know, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.200 I or it meant like having you know, if it 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.080 was really tired and hadn't had a chance yet to 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.360 do exercise. I still do my exercise at eight pm 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.400 at night on the you know, living room sofa in 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.559 front of the TV. So actually seeing myself doing this 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.880 rather than talking about it and actually doing it honestly 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.240 and with you know, being really genuine about I did 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.480 do thirty five minutes because I set the timer. I 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.560 didn't cheat, I didn't round my minutes up or anything 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.160 like that. It really did improve my sense of confidence 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.720 and self worth. And even Tom said, I'm so proud 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.400 of you doing this. I can't believe you actually did 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.680 the whole seventy five days. Also, I would say in 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.080 doing this, and I would I think it's because I 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.559 had a strong balance towards the personal growth side. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.840 I feel a lot. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.440 More calm and a lot more organized, which is something, 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:36.760 as you know, for my ADHD, was really valuable. It's 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.679 allowed me to see I actually need to do more 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:43.280 work around my organizational skills to help manage my ADHD better. 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.400 Now I know I'm selling this and it sounds amazing 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.679 and great, but I also want to share with you 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.160 the downsides of doing this as well as the risks. Now, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.480 when I was doing this, I actually injured my knee. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.440 I don't know what I did to it. Tom's been 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.080 treating it for me, but I think from going from 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.400 doing exercise to three times a week to six times 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.199 a week, my body I'm getting old, I'm getting achy, 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.320 and my joints aren't the same. But my knee really 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.439 really hurt. And even with my knee hurting, I didn't 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.640 give up. I just pivoted. I did a different style 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.720 of exercise. You know, instead of doing the bike, I 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.440 would do more weights, lying down and focused on core stability. 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:21.960 And so forth. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.680 So I worked around it, but I wouldn't have injured 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.440 myself if I wasn't doing this challenge. I would also 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.000 say there is a negative impact on your mental health 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.320 if you have over committed and you know, you agree 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.480 to do this and put it out there and then realize, actually, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.560 this is unrealistic. I can't possibly do this in my 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.080 lifestyle because then you'd feel really bad about yourself. You'd 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.400 have obviously a negative impact on your mental health. I 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.800 would also say that there were elements and this wasn't 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:51.640 so much for me, but it was justly my opair 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.960 where she started to feel like, oh, I really don't 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.320 want to go and exercise, and I also I felt 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.240 like that time as well. But if you're doing the 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.440 same type of excit size over and over again, you 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.440 could fall out of love with that particular exercise. You know, 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.800 too much of the same thing is never great. The 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.120 other thing I would say that's negative about this is 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.680 a diet of your choice under the official hard seventy 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.240 five rules. That sounds a bit flaky. Is that healthy? 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.920 Is that a balanced diart? I just I don't I 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.920 really question that. I'm not a dietician. I'm not a doctor, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.160 I don't work in fitness and industry. But to me, 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.600 I'm like, I think there could be some clear boundaries, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.040 you know, maybe around that. Also drinking four and a 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.520 half laters of water. I think like everyone needs to 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.520 go and do their own research. But there is quite 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.400 a bit of studies about obviously over diluting your body 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.520 of all the electrodes from drinking too much water. And 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.160 you know the other thing with this is it is 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.640 hard to sustain. Like, if you're going to do this challenge, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.960 you've got to look at what your calendar looks like 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.280 for the next seventy five days. You know, doing this 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.480 during school holidays if you've got kids can be hard, 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.720 or if you're going away on holidays, this could be 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.400 really hard. Or if you've got lots of social events 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.200 coming up where you've got late nights, or you know 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.360 that you're going to be at an event where you'll 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.480 want to have a glass of wine, you know, this 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.280 could be hard. So you really need to do to 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:24.240 make sure you time this at something that's right for you. Now, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.000 I'm actually thinking of doing this all over again, and 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.800 I'm actually going to invite you to join me and 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.360 do this together. So I want to do another version, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.160 a soft version, and I'm going to call it seventy 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:42.120 five Canna And this is what I'm thinking of doing. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:47.400 And it's six thirty five minute training sessions per week 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.560 like I previously did, but one of those training sessions 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.800 can actually be thirty five minutes of stretching. I realized 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.720 that my body is old and aggy, you know, maybe 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.440 six is a bit too much for my body and 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.200 my joints. So I have a day off to recover. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:05.040 But also i have a day off to recover, but 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:08.040 I'm still technically doing exercise because I'm doing thirty five 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.960 minutes of stretching. And I did this the other day 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.480 and I was like when I finished, I was like, gosh, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.560 my body actually feels really good after stretching. Was like 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.040 my body was like thanking me. Because I'm someone who 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.920 goes to the gym and exercises straight away, I'm irresponsible 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.840 not probably warming up. And I'm also too impatient that 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.439 when I finish my workout, I don't stand there and 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.600 stretch for five minutes like I should. I pretty much, 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.720 you know, jump in the pool or walk out the 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.919 door and get on with my day. So I think 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.280 adding this component of one of those thirty five minute 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:41.239 sessions being stretching, is great for me. The other thing 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.880 I'm thinking of doing as a rule is adding in 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.720 an area that I need to either organize, tidy, or declutter. 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:51.560 So what I'm thinking is, each day, I have to 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.159 find one area in my life. So it might be 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.680 a draw, it might be a cupboard, it might be 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.800 something in my bathroom, it might be my makeup kit, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.919 it might be something even in an area in my 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.480 car where I have to declutter, tidy, or reorganize. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.760 So do just targeting one small area once a day. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.000 It's going to take me anywhere between one minute to 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.320 five minutes. I'm definitely going to keep in the journaling 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:21.040 because I love this. This was a really beautiful exercise 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.800 and I'm really in admiration of my own handwriting, if 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:28.960 I don't say so myself. Next is reading ten pages 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:32.239 or ten minutes of reading each day. I definitely want 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.040 to keep doing this. There were so many books I've 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.760 bought that so many books I've bought and I have 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.880 an a chance yet to read. And she felt really 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.760 good finally progressing through my list of books that I've 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.320 bought and you know, I think I knocked off maybe 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.280 four books during the seventy five challenge, which felt amazing, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.600 and I found that I've been able to articulate myself 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.760 in a lot more I guess cohesive manner since reading more. 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.400 So I definitely want to stick to that I goat 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.040 with and that's non negotiable. I also want to add 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:08.240 in an element of either financial goal work or financial 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.320 goal manifesting work where I spend the morning rereading my 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:17.159 financial goals or I spend my morning manifesting my goals. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.240 So I might do some affirmations around my financial goals, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.960 or I might do some visualization around my financial goals. 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.960 So just literally spend two to ten minutes maybe looking 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.320 at my financial goals or doing something around my financial goals. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:31.720 And there might be something like, okay, well I'm going 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:33.919 to open I'm going to transfer one hundred dollars to 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.320 one thousand dollar project, or I'm going to review my 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:41.560 budget for ten minutes something that is in alignment to 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.800 my financial well being and my financial journey, and of 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.480 course including one thousand dollar project as much as possible. 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.760 And then finally, what I'm thinking for doing this seventy 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.760 five can. I challenge is eating five vegetables per day. Now, 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.640 this is kind of embarrassing to admit, but I don't 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.000 eat enough vegetables. I eat plenty of fruit, I just 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:04.760 don't eat the recommended daily intake of vegetables being five 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.760 vegetables per day. And I would really like to have 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:13.760 a go at consciously and intentionally ensuring that I have 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.640 five different vegetables per day. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.240 Even if it's just you know, a couple. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.200 Of cellery sticks or carrot sticks, or you know, half 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.440 a tomato on a sandwich, I'm still going to count that. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.200 But I want to really increase the amount of fiber 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.040 I'm getting from vegetables. So that is what I'm thinking 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.119 of doing. And I'm going to start this on the 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.960 ninth of June and it will finish around towards I 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.480 think around that. I think I worked out finished around 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.280 the twenty fourth of maybe August, for that full seventy 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.639 five days. And I would absolutely love for you to 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.840 join me in this challenge. Now I've shared with you 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.120 what I'm thinking of doing, and I'm going to put 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.120 on social media these rules so you can refer to them. 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.040 But I would love for you to come up with 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.360 your own rules as well. What I have I'm doing 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.320