Admit it
More than a decade of looking fine while almost nobody knew.
Your hard thing: Name the one thing you're hiding. One line, by reply.
A weekly letter from Ken Rideout
Nowhere to Hide
A weekly letter from Ken Rideout about doing the uncomfortable part, and the reasons we use to avoid it.
Sign up and it starts with 3 Days, 3 Hard Things: one short story from Ken and one hard thing to do, every day for three days. Then one letter a week.
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Why Ken writes it
Everyone has one hard thing they keep stepping around, with a very respectable reason for not doing it. Ken hid his for more than a decade. The letter is about the part where the excuse stops working.
“I don't tell you how to do it. I show you how I did it.”
What arrives
First, 3 Days, 3 Hard Things. One email a day, starting the moment you sign up.
Start it
New York, 2021. Fifty years old, the last 200 meters against an Olympian.
Your hard thing: Do the physical thing you've decided it's too late for. Today.
Prove it
One time the hard thing changed everything.
Your hard thing: Tell Ken about one hard thing you already did. Some end up in the letter, first name only.
Then one letter a week. Each one starts inside a real moment from Ken's life, says what it cost, and ends with one question for your week. Hit reply and Ken reads it.
From a letter
Nowhere to HideQuitting Kona
I quit the marathon at Kona in 2012 with a finish still there.
I said, “I'm done,” to my wife. In the moment, stopping felt easier than staying in the ugly part of the race.
I came back in 2013 and finished in 9:39. The time felt good. It did not erase the decision from the year before.
Walking those twenty-two miles would have been easier than carrying it.
Your turnWhat respectable reason are you using to step around the hard part? What is one rep you can take this week?
P.S. What is your version? Hit reply and tell me.