Dan Martell

It almost dislocated my hip.

And when I started talking to my friends that were also training with me for the Ironman and family members, they all said to me, maybe you should sit this out.

And I remember thinking I could and nobody else would hold it against me.

In many ways, they were encouraging me to do it.

But then I realized a quote I heard a long time ago is sometimes life is getting you ready to receive what you've been asking for.

And I knew in that moment, I could choose easy and not race, or I can go work my way to find another bike, train on the bike, rehab myself and show up to the starting line.

And I will tell you that full distance Ironman that I started on a bike I hardly trained on, in the heat we were running in, if I didn't go through that, the mental preparation to deal with that level of hard, I'm telling you, I had to go into a pain cave I didn't wanna enter.

But because I went through that, it got me ready.

It was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever done in my life to that point.

And in the same breath, when I finished, I got crazy emotional because I knew I'd earned that.

And if I didn't go through it, I wouldn't have grown through it to become the person who could have kept pushing.

So if life is hard, good.

Because winners push past the point where everybody else said stopping was justified.

So if you want to prioritize choosing hard to transform your life, do this.

First, pick one challenge that scares you.

I don't care if it's the Everesting challenge, 75 hard, running your first 10K, literally deciding to drop 10 pounds.

Just pick something that you know you have a hard time doing and decide to use it to shape you.

Two, tell people about your commitment.

Activate it.

Activate the outcome.