I'm running a marathon right now...

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Hey,

By the time you read this, I’ll be out there somewhere on the course. Maybe cruising through mile 8. Maybe dying somewhere around mile 22. Either way, I’m running my first marathon right now.

I signed up 100 days ago, without any real reason. I just wanted to see what would happen if I gave myself something hard to work toward. Something that would pull me out of autopilot.

Signing up for this marathon became a forcing function that automatically made me make the right choice a thousand little times. Every decision now has context. Do I stay up scrolling? I've got 12 miles tomorrow morning. Do I skip today's 5-miler? Mile 20 won't care that I was tired on a random Tuesday.

It’s not that I became a different person overnight. I just knew I had to run a marathon on October 26th, and it didn’t care about my excuses. As the saying goes, “You sweat more in practice so you bleed less in battle.”

Making that one big decision took care of all the micro habits I'd been trying to build for years. I didn't need more willpower. I just needed something on the calendar that made all those other decisions automatic.

That’s the thing about setting a big goal. It forces you to become someone who can handle it. You don’t need a plan or some perfect system. You just need a date on the calendar that scares you a little.

And it doesn’t have to be a marathon. It could be launching a YouTube channel, starting a side business, writing a book, moving to a new city. Anything that makes you a little nervous when you think about it. The point isn’t what you do. The point is that you do something.

Because one day, you’ll be in the middle of it like I am right now. Sweating, hurting, questioning why you started. And then it’ll hit you: this is exactly what you needed.

Until next week,
Jay “Do Hard Things” Yang

Ps. Me in a few hours LOL

Pps. I went on another podcast. This one was really fun. Link here if ya wanna listen :)

Ppps. You can just do things

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