Monthly Favorites January 2022

Book: 75 Hard By Andy Frisella

So if you don’t already know or haven’t checked out some of my previous writing I started the 75 hard program earlier this year. 

Basically, this is a mental toughness program designed to get you out of your comfort zone to build confidence and discipline. There are 5 main rules that you must complete each day and if you are interested you can go check them out here: 75 hard rules .

When I first started the program I tried to get the book but it was sold out. Apparently, it sells out very fast when a new supply is available. Luckily for me when I made a post on Facebook someone I knew reached out and offered to send me a copy.

I ended up reading the book in about 5 days at about 2 weeks into my journey. 

It is not a long book at only 194 pages and was a very easy read.

The book starts out with some background information about who the author, Andy Frisella is, where he started, what obstacles he had to overcome, and some of the amazing things he has accomplished. This all leads up to the explanation of the creation of the 75 hard program. He then goes over in detail what each of the 5 rules is and the reason they are designed the way they are.

People often get the misconception that this is some sort of losing weight program or physical fitness challenge. Yeah, most people do end up losing weight if they do exactly as the program suggests but it is much more than that. This will be something you find out when doing the program and reading the book.

You don’t need the book to get going on the challenge and in my honest opinion, I would start reading the book when you are around day 60. I found that it kind of took the surprise out of some of what the program had to offer. If I was to do it all over that is what I would do.

The book finishes with “the eight eras of 75HARD”. Here Andy talks about different things he is going through as he makes his way through the program for the first time. If you feel like reading the book when you begin this is the section I would wait on so you can experience it for yourself first hand.

Overall it was a great book to learn more about the challenge, why it was made, why it was designed the way that it is, and what you can expect going through the challenge yourself.

Music: Blacktop Mojo - New Album 2021 - Blacktop Mojo

I am a huge music fan so I like to try and include something to do with that in my monthly favorites. I have been a fan of the band Blacktop Mojo pretty much since their first album came out. They are probably one of my favorite rock bands for sure. I kind of dropped the ball and didn’t even know they came out with a new album on August 13, 2021! I ended up finding it in early January of this year(2022).

This is a self-titled album, their 4th studio album and it has 12 tracks on it.

Tracklist:

1 - Wicked Woman

2 - Bed Tundy

3 - Latex

4 - Rewind

5 - Jealousy

6 - Make Believe (Interlude)

7 - Darlin' I Won't Tell

8 - Do It For The Money

9 - Hold Me Down

10 - Cough

11 - Stratus Melancholia

12 - Tail Lights

If you are a rock fan I would highly suggest checking these guys out. Here is a link to go watch the official music video for the song Tail Lights . This is a sick track and a good song to sample off the album.
Here is a great cover the singer of the band, Matt James, did with Small Town Titans - “ Hunger strike ” which was a song originally done by temple of the dog. I really think they did a great job with the song and wanted to add it as a bonus.

Website: https://www.acquisition.com/

This will be a real treat for lots of you reading. This website was put up by Alex Hormozi , who is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. By the age of 32 he and his wife, Leila, had built up a portfolio of companies that crossed $85 million a year in revenue from a variety of different companies including brick & mortar service, licensing, education, SAAS, and e-commerce.

What he offers on the website are: Free courses, a book detailing his process of growing a company, Free podcast, and an opportunity to work with him and his team if you are doing $3million+, would like his investment, and help to scale your business.

There will be a 4 part series of courses he will be offering for free. The first one is out now, the offer creation course which goes along with his book “$100M offers”.

The other 3 aren’t out yet but they are: Lead Generation Course, Money Models Course, and Real World Sales Course.

I went through his offer course and there is a lot of actionable info in there and I will definitely have to go through it again but the amount of value he provides is absolutely outstanding. Alex could easily charge a good chunk of money for what he is teaching.

Some great skills to learn here to add to the tool belt and think pretty much anyone could make awesome use of these resources.