Hello, friends! Welcome to Day 12 of the 7-40 Challenge—where the garden-building saga continues, and my family and I are officially running on fumes.
Today was next-level. I did something I’m not sure I’ve ever done before: my Apple Watch clocked over 150 workout minutes. That’s right—150+ minutes of pure, real-life hustle. No gym, no long walks or yoga, just me, a mountain of wood, and sheer determination.
I hauled several thousand pounds of timber across the yard. By the end, my arms were noodles, my back was whispering sweet nothings of revenge, and my watch was basically screaming, “Are you trying to kill me?!”
But here’s the thing: it was worth it.
This wasn’t some scripted fitness app routine. This was a real-life workout—the kind that builds more than muscle. It builds grit. It builds progress. It builds a garden (and a story) we’ll look back on and say, “Yeah, we did that.”
The Short & Sweet Message for Tonight:
Keep working on the goals.
Do hard things. Do them well.
Even when you’re exhausted. Even when the wood feels heavier than your will to live.
Because the best workouts?
They don’t always happen in a gym.
Sometimes they happen in the dirt, under the sun, with family beside you and a dream in front of you.
Tomorrow, we rest.
But tonight?
We celebrate the burn.
See you on Day 13.
(If I can still move.)
David Willis 