It took two days. Two days into assessment week — a planned break between rounds of the 7-40 Challenge — and I was already craving the structure I’d stepped away from. I’ll admit, some of the break was good. I stopped listening to audiobooks for a few days and let my mind clear out. That … Continue reading The Craving
Category: Life
Attack the Problem
Assessment Week 2 — Day 4 | The 7-40 Challenge I took my mother to a hospital procedure this morning. My dad had a different appointment of his own, so I was the one taking her. My parents drove over two hours to get there. When we arrived, the hospital had her appointment time marked … Continue reading Attack the Problem
Actively Resting
Assessment Week 2 — Day 3 | The 7-40 Challenge I officially took the habits off the clock this week. Assessment Week is for rest, evaluation, and planning. Nobody’s keeping score. And yet — Bible study every morning. Lifted twice. A blog post every day. Ab challenge Day 14 with my son. Walking. Thinking. Writing. … Continue reading Actively Resting
Stop
Assessment Week 2 — Day 1 | The 7-40 Challenge I find it really funny that after eighty days of building habits, publishing a novel, creating frameworks, and writing every single day — the first thing I thought this morning was: All right, what’s my list? What do I have to do? How do I … Continue reading Stop
Framework and Freedom
Day 80 of 280 | The 7-40 Challenge Round 2 is done. Forty more days. All seven habits. Two full rounds in the books. And I want to talk about something that I keep coming back to — the relationship between structure and freedom, and why most people have it backwards. When I started the … Continue reading Framework and Freedom
