Days 1-10
Welcome to the 40 Day Challenge: Lock In
Day 10 - BOTH
All hustle and no play
makes long boring days.
You need hustle AND play
to make better days.
Do you hustle?
Do you play?
Lock in.
Day 9 - FIXED
Fix your frustrations
Write down your top 5 frustrations in life.
Choose one that you can do something about.
Do it.
Fix one frustration today.
If you’re feeling bold, fix 2.
Fix the frustrations that you can fix and pray about the ones you cannot.
Fix by force or
fix by faith.
Lock in.
Day 8 - sURROUNDED
I am surrounded.
Draw a circle.
Put yourself in the center.
Write the names of the people who care about you.
Then, write the names of the people you care about.
That’s your circle.
Choose them wisely.
Treat them well.
Pick two people from your circle to send a message to.
Keep your circle close.
Lock in.
Day 7 - FAVOR
Just for today, act as if life favors you.
Expect good things and help them happen.
Your best chance of having a great life comes down to you.
Lock-in.
Day 6 - Lead.
You are either leading or being led.
Are you a leader?
Or are you a follower?
If you are leading, make sure you are headed in an ideal direction.
If you are being led, make sure that who you are following is headed in a direction that you want to go.
Who leads the way in your life?
Lock in.
Day 5- No.
Becoming a more powerful version of yourself REQUIRES the ability to say
NO
to people, places, experiences, foods, substances, and schedules that can derail you.
Get good at saying NO.
What do you need to say NO to?
Lock in.
DAY 4 - Good THINKING.
Thoughts build
beliefs that build
values that build
memories that build
lives.
Practice better thinking.
What negative thought do you need to replace?
What better thought do you need to start thinking?
Write it down.
Make the switch.
Lock in.
Day 3 - Gut Check
Your head’s not right if your gut’s not right.
How well you feel and think starts in your gut, which means you are either nourishing yourself or starving yourself of the nutrients you need to function at your best.
After eating, your gut sends signals to the brain that alter your body’s chemistry.
Foods affect hormones, blood chemistry, and DNA.
Think of your body like an expensive sports car.
Think of food as the gas and oil that will keep it running at its best.
You wouldn’t fill it up with cheap gas - or fake gas - and expect it to work properly.
Yet maybe you do this to yourself?
Processed foods, sodas, and fast foods aren’t nourishing your body.
Food is your fuel.
If you’re not eating right, you’re not thinking right.
Are you eating to live a long and healthy life?
Are you consistently fueling-up properly?
Lock-in.
Day 2 - Focus
If you focus on finding red cars, you’ll start seeing them everywhere.
If you focus on NOT seeing red cars, you’re still likely to see red cars everywhere.
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What do you focus on?
Your brain loves patterns.
It’s designed to constantly find and create patterns to keep you safe and comfortable.
Being comfortable is wonderful until it’s time step outside of your comfort zone.
The brain doesn’t always love that.
Breaking patterns can be challenging because it puts the brain in unfamiliar territory.
This is why replacing habits can be more effective than breaking them.
Do more than quit.
When you focus on breaking a habit, it keeps your attention on what you’re trying to quit.
When you replace it, you create new patterns.
Over the next 39 days,
what pattern are you replacing?
What new pattern are you creating?
Hold yourself to new standards:
Instead of ———, like before, now I ———.
Day 1 - the Gatekeeper.
Everything worth guarding has a Gatekeeper. Even heaven has St. Peter at the gate making sure the right ones come in.
In life, there are endless ideas, thoughts, and emotions available all of the time - some are uplifting, some are destructive.
It’s the Gatekeeper’s job to let the right ones come in and keep the wrong ones out.
What kind of Gatekeeper are you?
Do you let everything and everyone in?
Do you have a good system for bouncing out bad food, people, ideas, and ways of thinking?
Over the next 40 days, be more aware of what you let in and out.
You control the gates.
You are the Gatekeeper - of your mind, your mouth, and your mission.
