Sometimes you just have to rise and grind through to get to the next stage, or just something better.

A couple of weeks ago I survived snowpocalypse / snovid here in San Antonio Texas. It was an exciting week with lots of challenges. While the snow is gone I am still digging myself out and trying to find the week I lost while snowed in.

Now it’s back to the grind. I have lots of work to get back on track.

Do you ever feel like it’s just a rise and grind time in your life?

You get up, do what needs to be done, just to do it again tomorrow and the next day… and the day after that?

It’s a groundhog day, but not the fun kind like the movie.

There is a book called Rise and Grind all about just getting up and doing it longer, faster, and more than everyone else. It wasn’t my favorite book. Daymond John wrote the book and just repeated you have to rise and grind every day of your life to win. I don’t rise and grind every day of my life. It sucks!

I rise and grind to get through a hard time to better times. I set time limits on how long I will be in a season of work and what I will do on the other end. I’m not looking to be a billionaire but just a successful salesman, man, father, husband, and Christian. A simple life…

How I’m getting through these times is knowing that it will only be for a time. I rise and grind and prioritize and execute (from Jocko Willink in Leadership Strategy and Tactics).

By creating priorities and doing them I can get through this season and onto something else.

I use the Power List from Andy Frisella. The same person who developed the 75 Hard Challenge.

Both are simple ideas and simple to use. You pick five things that have to get done today and that becomes your power list. You pick five things that if you do them every day will make you a better person and that is my 75 Hard Challenge.

Neither is easy… any day. But if you do both my your sky-rockets forward in whatever way you have chosen to do (prioritize and execute).

I put both of these in a notebook that I carry with me everywhere. When I do it, my life gets better. When I don’t, it stays the same or gets worse.

So I keep doing it.

Can you do these simple things? Do you think you could do it continually to make yourself better and the world a better place?

Ben Branam

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