Round 2, Day 2
Monday, February 16, 2026
Hello and welcome to Day 42 of the 7-40 Challenge.
I’m excited to be here today. I’m getting stuff done, having a pretty good day. I lifted weights today for the first time in three weeks — my hand is finally feeling better — and it felt great to be back under the bar.
The Key That Unlocks Achievement
I’ve been thinking about why this challenge is working. And I keep coming back to one word: accountability.
It’s really easy to say you want to get something done. And then not set a standard to live up to. And then wonder why you weren’t able to achieve it at the end.
It’s the difference between wishing and planning.
Accountability — actually having to document things, show your work, show how you got there — is making a real difference. Because if I look in the mirror and I don’t like what I see, I can own my results. I can trace back through the data and find exactly where things went right or wrong.
I know that if I watch what I eat every day, take in the right amount of water, and work out like I’m supposed to, it helps me burn calories. It helps me reshape my body. It helps me lose weight.
But if I don’t track these things? If I don’t talk about what I did, how I did it, where I’ve been and where I’m going? When I don’t reach where I want to be, I have absolutely no reason to be surprised.
Transparency is the key that unlocks the door of achievement. Because if you know what to do, and you’re not transparent enough to say whether you’ve done it or not, then who are you fooling but yourself?
A Lesson in Owning It
Let me give you a real example.
I had a job once where I had been entering data all morning. Hours of work. And about halfway through the day, I realized I had been entering everything in the wrong place — in our sample area instead of our actual area. People were depending on me to get the job done.
I had two choices. I could pass it off. Make excuses. Hope nobody noticed.
Or I could focus in, redo four hours of work, and get it right.
With a little focus, it only took about an hour and a half to fix. I finished on time. Met the deadline. It was one of the first times I had made a mistake like that and immediately pivoted to attacking the problem with a solution instead of an excuse.
That’s accountability. Not perfection — but ownership. Seeing the problem, admitting the problem, and fixing the problem.
The 7-40 Connection
That’s what this blog does for me. Every day I show up here and document what happened. What I did. What I didn’t do. Where I’m winning. Where I’m struggling.
And because of that transparency, I can’t hide from my own results. I can only improve them.
How about you? Are you showing your work? Or are you hoping nobody — including yourself — notices the gap between what you said you’d do and what you actually did?
Show your work. Own your results. The transparency is what makes the transformation real.
Day 42 Habit Tracker
- ✅ Bible Study and Prayer
- ✅ Exercise (Warrior Shredding Workout A + Walk)
- ✅ Water 100 oz
- ✅ Calorie Tracking
- ✅ Gratitude Practice
- ✅ Reading (30 minutes)
- ✅ Creative Hour
Day 42 of 280. Show your work.
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