The Bryson Every Day Project

118.5. I Don't Have Time

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?:??pm, February 14th, 2024, Outdoor Workout, UT
Not doing something with the excuse being “I’m too busy” means that in order for you to do the thing, you need to be in a phase of life where you are not busy. Chances are, life is going to happen to you every week. You’re always going to have something going on.
Do you want to meal prep, hit the gym, read regularly, or work on your business for the rest of your life? Yes. Do you think you’re never going to be busy ever again after this next project of yours is done? No. Therefore, start now. Because putting it off any longer is hindering the long term results.
If you can do things when they are most inopportune, hard, or inconvenient, you sure as shit will be able to do them when you don’t have anything going on, which is what you assume needs to be the circumstances in order for you to do the thing you’re putting off.
You’re not too busy. Your priorities are fucked and so is your ability to effectively manage your time.
If you want the non-butchered version of this invaluable perspective, go check out Alex Hormozi's page. He said it best.

118. Form Tracking

2:48pm, February 14th, 2024, Clinton, UT, Car
To someone who doesn’t have any desire to improve in life in minuscule ways, this may sound obsessive and crazy. 
“I missed the part where that’s my problem.”
— Peter Parker 
I have this form that I’ve made for myself to answer every night. For no other reason than to track my productivity, mood, behavior, efficiency, and find patterns. I want to see the data of my life and analyze it. I want to find the common denominator in my successful, productive, and smooth days so I can recreate them as much as I can. 
The best part of it all… it’s free and takes me less than 180 seconds per day to complete. 
Weigh that investment of time with the result it brings. Statistical analysis of my everyday behavior and results? Free? 3 minutes? Easy. 
Obsessive, crazy, weirdo, sign me up. I want to get better. 
 
BTS:
I’m getting my oil changed. I’m sitting in the auto shop lobby typing all this. Feels good getting shit done when I could easily be sitting here scrolling social.

117. Seeking Opportunity for Growth Instead of Seeing it as Stress

7:12pm, February 13th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Outdoor Workout 
A day full of stress: good or bad? It depends on the light that it is viewed in. I’m gonna keep this one short and sweet.
There was a lot of problems today. There were many situations where I was extremely irritable and annoyed. There were many moments where I would’ve quit in the past. I had a mountain of inconveniences (in the context of the day) that I had to tend to. 
Rather than seeing all this as frustrating and quitting, I swapped my thought process into growth mode and accepted these situations as tests for me to either pass or fail. By gamifying the whole day, I was able to handle each issue with a new goal in mind: grow and develop.
And so I did. And I’m proud of that.

116. People Often Hate On What They Do Not Understand ft. Ice Bath

?:??pm, February 12th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Outdoor Workout 
Came across a video on social where a dude is breaking a thick layer of ice with a sledgehammer. It’s his outdoor ice bath, and it happens to be 33°. 
My first impression was “that’s so bad ass. This guy is a legend. This is real ass discipline.” 
Let’s be real here. If you take away every benefits from the ice bath, every single one, you’re left with freezing water and that’s it. To get yourself into that water for no other reason than to exercise discipline; that takes a large amount of willpower. And that’s what it’s about.
Peep the comments and you’ll see every other mother fucker talking about how it’s so unhealthy, how it’s so bad for you, how it must suck to be this guys neighbor. Making jokes about how he’s doing it for attention or likes. 
Not one comment was anything close to “Damn, I don’t have the discipline for this. This is nuts!” Or “I’m not brave enough to get into water that cold.” Or “wow this guy is tough! I could never!” Or anything to that extent. At all.
The comments were all the aforementioned shit saying how it’s so bad for you.
Chances are, none of these people making these comments have done jack shit to improve their mental game. Or, maybe they have. But they haven’t come across the ice bath routine. So they bash it immediately.
To be honest I have no idea where I’m going with this caption. So I’ll stop here lol. #documenteverything

115. Quitting Effects & Daily Tracking

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5:01pm, February 11th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Outdoor Workout
Mid superbowl, we gettin’ it done. Flexing hard for the haters on one (just kidding, I do not care). Go patriots.
I read last night; it was the very last task for my day. It was brutal. I was so exhausted that reading a mere 10 pages became the hardest thing I’ve ever done. It took every ounce of my soul to not fall asleep while reading. 
A thought crossed my mind, and what was, “imagine if I – in the middle of reading – stopped and went to bed because it was ‘too hard’ for me to finish the pages.”
If, in the exact moment I decided to quit and actually did, it probably would have been euphoric. It probably would have felt relieving. I could now go to bed. I could finally shut my eyes and go to sleep. The hard was over with. I could finally end the day and lay in my warm, comfortable bed. 
But what about tomorrow morning when I wake up and am confronted with the fact that I failed. I bitched out. I did not keep my word I made with myself. I got lazy. I took the easy road; the road that everyone else takes.
I forfeited growth, discipline, resilience, perseverance. I quit.
What about the days ahead when I look back and think “I really quit over not wanting to read 5 and half more pages…? Am I that weak that I couldn’t muster up the discipline to read 5 lousy pages of a book? Wow.” 
What about when people come across my page and see that I’m all about working hard, exercising willpower, and building resilience? I’ll be a fraud… I can’t even read 10 pages?
Within seconds of this thought, I snapped out of the tired frenzy, corrected my posture, focused on every word, and got it done. 
And while this may be so microscopic in the grand scheme of things, my momentum lives on and keeps building. Another test passed and another lesson learned.
If you’re going to lose a battle, make sure it’s something truly out of your control. If you have control over the outcome, anything less than a win is a conscious decision you made to be less than what you could’ve been.
P.S. Made a nightly intake form to track my progress every day. It takes less than 50 seconds to complete and tracks 20+ details of my life so I can reflect and see patterns and predict outcomes. Google forms baby. It’s free. I’ll let ya know how it goes.

114. Disciplined Lifestyle

5:55pm, February 10th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Grass Field
I have had this feeling of “falling off the train” ever since Ep. 106. I feel like I am not as disciplined as I once was. As I talk about in this episode, I think it is actually due to the fact that I’ve been doing this for half a year now very consistently. It is molding into an entirely new lifestyle for me.
I draw comparisons back to Colorado & Arizona a lot, but all of them are true. My schedule was loosely 7am-4pm deliver 300 packages. 4:30-midnight play runescape/minecraft/cod. That’s really it. Going from that to now, (when not on Live Hard) I’m: working out, following a nutritional plan, eating 225g+ protein, taking a 39º ice bath for 5 minutes, reading 10 full pages of a self development book (sometimes 30+ because the pages are halfsies), drinking a gallon of plain water, recording a podcast, uploading a podcast, and developing the core of a business I am working on. And when I am on Live Hard, throw in a second workout in the mix that’s outdoors.
That’s my life now, and yet I still feel like I am being a lazy bum. Objectively, I am fully aware that I am not and that I am getting a lot of things done. But subjectively, I’m not doing shit. It is hard to even remind myself of the reality of the situation because the feeling of being a bum still lingers.
All in all, I guess I need to add more to the mix and get more done, especially since I have extra time in the day I’m not doing shit with.

113. Mental Dilemma With Extra/Unforeseen Tasks

?:??pm, February 9th, 2024, Clinton, UT
I struggle personally with trying to deviate from a set schedule of tasks that need to get done. I need to clean my ice bath out, and that’s no short task given the circumstances I have. I also would like to sit down and revisit my goals, my why, and what I’m doing. I’d like to get back in line with those. I tend to overcomplicate things in my head. Something I need to work on getting better at.
Working backward in goal setting is an easy way to figure out your next move. Figure out what the goal is, then what is required just before that, and then just before that, and so and and so forth until you arrive at present time

112.5. Like-Minded Individuals Are So Rare

7:47pm, February 8th, 2024, West Haven, UT, Church Parking Lot, Outdoor Workout
After that first podcast earlier today, it got me thinking about something else. Despite being back with friends and family here in UT (after moving around for 3 years), I still feel lonely in regards to the path I’m on. I would love to find like-minded individuals, but they are so rare in the realm of personal development and challenging ones self to become better. People would rather go out, spend loads of money on food and drinks, party with friends, watch multiple series Netflix, stay out of shape, stay broke, stay in their 9-5 jobs. Not a lot of people desire growth in their lives, for either them or their families, and it is evident by their priorities. 
Nothing wrong with any of this, but I'm trying to find the people who want bigger, better, more. Who have giant ambition and are acting on it relentlessly everyday. This is why I am so embarrassed to talk about any of this to people in casual conversation. To the average guy, the dynamic of this conversation might be that I think I'm better, holier than thou, superior, or extremely arrogant.
I just don't want to be a fat, mediocre, depressed, sad sack of shit. I want to own super cars, run companies, and change lives. I want to challenge myself, overcome hardships, and seek my personal limits. I don't want to scroll social media all day, watch porn, drink every weekend, watch TV all the time, or waste my life away not being fulfilled. 
But fuck me right? Arrogant prick.
It sucks. But it’s the path I chose.

112. 18 Months Away

7:10pm, February 8th, 2024 (Kobe & Gigi Day 02/08/24), West Haven, UT, Church Parking Lot, Outdoor Workout
Well, looks like business won’t be happening for a lot longer than anticipated. There are many options I have, and it truly boils down to how much patience I am willing to exert in this chapter of my life. The more I openly talked about the issue the more clarity it brought to me. It brought me answers that I didn’t want, but that provide a viable way out of the wait-time.
Either way, I can’t give up. I have to reframe and keep moving. I’ll figure it out as I go. You’ll hear about it here 1 episode at a time.
Distracted af in this one.

111. Baseline Tasks Are All That Is Needed

4:07pm, February 7th, 2024, Gym Parking Lot, UT, Car
This is a piggyback off of episode 106. My baseline tasks in my life – that I do every day – are to hit my caloric intake requirements and 225g+ protein, drink 1 gallon of plain water, exercise, read 10 pages of a self development book, no alcohol or cheats, take an ice bath, and record a podcast. While on Live Hard you can throw in an additional workout. But that’s the baseline. When I execute properly, I have 2-3 hours left in my day for whatever else I desire. Which lately has been dedicated to developing products and a business. 
It makes me think that this is the all-so-value key to success that is overlooked. I am doing all of these things daily, and yet I still feel I am not doing enough. Just 7 months ago, I was just working my 9-5 at FedEx and coming home to play games all day. That was it. I didn’t feel any sort of resentment or regret in those days for being a lazy fat fuck. But now that I have a clear vision, I am really disappointed in myself when that is all I do in the day. 
But maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s the key to it all. My personal baseline is sending me on the right trajectory for ultimate success. It just seems like nothing is happening because there hasn’t been enough compounding going on. I’m 6 or 7 months into this journey. I have not given up. What will the magnification of my daily tasks be for the future of my results if I continue this rate of execution for the next 5 years? 
It’s a comforting thought to know all I have to do is not throw in the towel. That’s it.
I cannot fail if I do not quit.