steal my action-setting framework
so... you want to do 75 hard in 2025? 🫣
Happy New Year my heinously-procrastinating-yet-delusionally-ambitious gang 🫶🫶🫶Â
I simply cannot believe it’s been a year since I started 75 hard. It changed my life, but not because of some big transformation.
P.S. If you missed out on last week’s Goal Setting Workshop, you’re in luck. You’re getting the first tiny tutorial of 2025: how to build self-discipline and take more action in 2025. Keep scrolling for more!
As soon as I completed it, I had proved to myself that I was able to do hard things. Now… I’ve faced my fair share of challenges and traumas, so I know how capable I am.
But when it came to self-care, TRUE self-care through discipline and healthy habits, I’d always let myself down.
Seeing it trend again just makes me excited for all those attempting it. Are you tempted? Or do you hate challenges?
In this issue:
Before you start a challenge, consider this
Here's the mindset shift that came up during our Action Workshop: Your relationship with your future self is actually an interpersonal relationship problem.
When we procrastinate, we're having trust issues with ourselves - constantly planning and preparing because we don't trust our future self to handle challenges.
But this actually prevents growth.
The magic happens when you're halfway through and realise you're made of much stronger stuff than you initially thought.
Trust that future you can figure it out along the way.
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Tiny tutorial: from goals to action in 2025
For those who couldn't make our action-taking workshop last week, here's a tiny tutorial on the framework we used.
Step 1: Calculate your cost of inaction
Instead of just listing goals, we started by calculating what it actually costs us to stay stuck.
Looking over your 2024, or historically, what are the goals you keep setting yourself that go unachieved? What you keep dreaming about but never going after? We looked at three dimensions:
Emotional cost (constant stress, low confidence)
Financial cost (missed opportunities, delayed wealth building)
Time cost (longer path to goals, years spent with a negative mindset)
Research shows that writing down these costs makes you 42% more likely to take action.
Research also shows that focussing on what happens if you don’t change can be more motivating than thinking about the change itself.
Step 2: Identity Shifts > Random Actions:
We don't underachieve goals because we lack information - we fail because our current identity conflicts with them. So we mapped out:
Who do you need to become?
What would that person do daily?
What small, consistent action would prove you're becoming that person?
Bonus: how can you attach the new identity actions to your current habits?
Example: after your morning scroll (current habit), read for 5 minutes (new habit that your ideal identity does in the morning).
Step 3: Assign Levels 1 and 100
We took the actions that your identity-shifted person would do and broke them down into two levels.
Level 1: Your absolute minimum (think: getting dressed for the 5-minute workout, not a 5 minute workout)
Level 100: Your ideal scenario (think: full gym session)
The key concept being that Level 1 must be done no matter what.
People who fail to be consistent and embody self-discipline are the ones who negotiate their non-negotiables and have the perfect excuse to ‘do it tomorrow’.
Instead, make it impossible to NOT do it today.
Step 4: Building Your Discipline Toolkit
Some participants loved this part!!
We created personalised "If-then" plans for common obstacles: "If I feel overwhelmed, then I'll just do the Level 1 version" "If I'm procrastinating, then I'll set a 5-minute timer and start".
This takes auditing your own excuses: what crops up time and time again, and how can you prepare for that excuse. Do this instead of fighting yourself everyday 🤣
This issue was a slightly longer one, but I wanted you to be able to get this framework because I’ve had so much great feedback since the workshop.
👀 You can watch and actually DO this work live with me on the free replay HERE (well, not live, but there’s time to actually do practical work).
In the meantime, watch out for my YouTube video this week on my 75 hard experience (I did it alongside my corporate job, so boy are my tips relevant!) on my YouTube channel (P.S. THANK YOU for 30,000 subs!!!)
Have a great week ahead,
Devamsha xo
💬 This week’s comment prompts:
Do you actively avoid thinking about your future self - do you feel like they’re a stranger? Why?
What's your Level 1 version of a goal you've been putting off?
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