You say you'll get up at six, and you're still in bed at eight. You say you'll quit eating junk food, but you end up eating it anyway.
Breaking promises to yourself once or twice isn’t that bad – but break them over and over again, and sooner or later “not following through” becomes the default expectation, and at that point the price of starting something starts to feel too high.
It looks like a discipline problem from the outside. It's really a self-trust problem. You're not lazy — you just don't believe you'll show up tomorrow.
The part of you that commits has lost confidence in the part of you that acts.
Someone who follows through on things doesn't have more willpower than everyone else — they've just kept enough promises to themselves to stop questioning whether they'll show up.
When you fail to follow through, you blame the part of you that had to act. But look at what you asked it to do.
Eight promises. Every day. Starting tomorrow. Every unkept promise makes you feel a little guilty, and as the guilt rises the need to escape it rises with it. Before long you're back, right where you started, no closer to changing your life.
Instead of trying to fix your whole life overnight, focus on becoming the type of person that can fix your life – someone who shows up whether they feel like it or not.
The Show Up Challenge helps you become that person.
Here is how it’s done
90 days, one promise a day — show up for exercise. Every night you put out your workout clothes. The clothes are the promise. The next day you see the workout clothes and have the opportunity to keep the promise or not. The promise is small on purpose – it's not "finish a full workout", it's simply "show up".
The goal is to be able to say "I'm someone who shows up whether I feel like it or not" and mean it.
Every night, after you’ve shown up, you repeat the phrase “I show up whether I feel like it or not” – that statement paired with the evidence is what makes it start to feel true.
So in light of making promises you can keep, let me tell you what to expect from this challenge:
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You won’t achieve your dream life within 90 days.
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You won’t become shredded.
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You won’t become immune to self-doubt and negative feelings.
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Self-doubt and negative feelings will stop having the final say in what you do.
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Whether you’ll show up or not will stop being in question.
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The unknown will look less scary because you trust you can handle it.
Why is it free?
I created this challenge to help people who are in the same position as I was in a couple of years ago. I’d tried to change for years, but I couldn’t stick to anything – I always ended up back at the same place. At that point in my life, I didn’t need more self-help books or superficial tips – I needed someone to tell me exactly what to do, how, when, why and for how long. I wouldn't have trusted some random person on the internet to have the answer to my problem, so if it wasn’t free I’d have labelled it a scam and moved on.
The Challenge is complete on its own. The Show Up System is an optional Notion home base the Challenge can run inside. €49. The Challenge doesn't need it.
What happens when you sign up and press “Start Challenge”?
You add the challenge to your cart, put in your email and press "complete order" – no card required.
You'll download a PDF with a link. Press it and you'll be redirected to the Challenge.
You press duplicate to copy the template into your own Notion workspace.
Then you press Start, which takes you to a short introduction — what the Challenge is, what you do and why.
Then a setup page. It takes about ten minutes: your start and end dates, backup plans for the days you can't do your scheduled workout, and a workout program. There are three in the template, or you can use your own.
That's it. The setup is done. All that's left is putting out your workout clothes tonight, and putting them on tomorrow.
Every other challenge depends on you showing up for the thing. This one is about building the capacity to show up at all.
The Show Up System
The free Challenge builds the habit. The System keeps it. Your program's one tap away, the deciding's done before you wake up, and everything's still there long after day 90.