The TRY HARDER Newsletter by Jerred Moon: Edition 015

Hey Risers,

Welcome to EDITION 015 of the TRY HARDER Newsletter.

Today, let’s dive into crappy cars, made-up work, and avoiding the hamster wheel.

Save it for later. Read it now. But don’t ignore this one!!
And if you like it, share it with a friend 🙏🏻.

Enjoy!

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In this Edition:

Building the Business

Millionaires Drive Crappy Cars

Building the Human

Made-up Work for Humans

Try Harder

Avoid the Hamster Wheel

Building the Business:

Millionaires Drive Crappy Cars 🚗

What’s your dream car? A Ferrari? Lamborghini?

Well mine was a 1980s, 75 HP, Volkswagen Cabriolet.

So, let’s discuss why the car I bought in the Panera parking lot for $2K is my dream car…

They laughed…

In the military, there’s something known as the “Captain’s Car.” Getting to captain is a decent pay raise, so most captains get a new car. Make sense?

Well a 1980s something 75 HP Volkswagen Cabriolet was my “Captain’s Car,” called the “GULF CART.” Stationed in the Florida Gulf at the time, it made perfect sense. I picked it up for less than $2K in a Panera parking lot. It was a stick shift, leaked when it rained, and sometimes it wouldn’t work.

Everyone who worked FOR me had a nicer car and laughed when I rolled into work.

I didn’t care. I had a goal.

I knew if I were going to leave the military and be an entrepreneur, I would need ZERO debt to take the risk.

Emily and I have, and continue, to put in a lot of work to live the life we want. Simple, not easy.

This is not my DREAM CAR, but it was the car that helped me get to the dream: THE-DREAM Car.

And I’m not the only one touting this message…
Dave Ramsey has been saying it for 30 years, Alex Hormozi started the ‘Mozimobile’ movement, and even Layne Norton talks about his beater.

Process ≠ outcome

Don’t confuse the outcome with the process.

If you want a desired outcome, the process can be messy and embarrassing and leak when it rains.

If you’re willing to make the necessary sacrifices today, you’ll eventually get to your desired tomorrow.

It’s not about the car you drive, but the drive within you. The ‘GULF CART’ wasn’t my dream car, but it was the vehicle to my dreams.

Takeaways:

Do impressive things - like build a business.
Avoid impressing people with something you can’t afford.
Make the sacrifices needed to live the life you want!

Building the Human:

Made-up Work for Humans ⚒️

Do you know why your great-grandpa wasn’t looking to hit a training session after work? Because he did “real work.”

But this “real work” is rapidly disintegrating…

I’m not shaming you…

Slow your role, I’m not here to tell you how the world “should be.” I don’t care if you mow your own grass or know the difference between a flat or phillips head screwdriver.

In fact, humans doing less real work is good for business. See below.

Each “1” represents $1,000,000, so that tops out at $100 billion…

The need for made-up work is here to stay.

Enter the Long-Duration EMOM

You can make up your own work or you can pay to have someone make up work for you.

Either way, you’ve got to try these 42-min EMOMs I’ve been playing with.

>>> Click here for an example <<<

Why This Works? It’s fun.

Let’s not complicate it.

Grunt work, works.

It’s about specific work intervals and rest intervals. It’s about doing just enough work to keep your heart rate up, but not enough to exhaust you. It’s about sustainable and repeatable work that you can do for hours.

It’s that simple. And it’s more fun than staring at a wall on a treadmill.

Takeaways:

Make fitness fun or at least interesting
Think of it as boring grunt work and less about abs or Garmin metrics…

Try Harder: Weekly Reminder

Avoid the Hamster Wheel 🐹

If you’re subscribed to a newsletter called “TRY HARDER” I have no doubt you are comfortable with hard work.

Just make sure you don’t prioritize effort over results.

Effort entitles you to nothing.

Remember, it’s crucial to connect all your present actions to your future goals. This is the key to escaping the hamster wheel and achieving meaningful results.

Effort without a vision, effort without direction, and effort without assessment is nothing more than a hamster wheel.

Plan better.

Try harder,