How to Keep Moving When Your Plan Breaks on Step One | Colin O'Brady

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0:43This plane lands me out on the edge of the Antarctic continent, takes off, I'm all alone out there, right? Like, I've dropped off alone. and well actually you had mentioned before there was another another guy out there which is like important to mention at this point because another British explorer one of the actually the most experienced in the world in terms of amount of miles traversed in Antarctica and various other projects he also decides that he wants to try to be the first so not only am I now racing history but this guy's a British Navy SEAL equivalent you know special forces guy his name's Lou Rudd and he's like a badass and he wants to do this as well it was his friend who died three years ago He's doing that to honor him.

1:20And I got a lot of respect for all. I mean, there's a camaraderie as well, of course. And we both know what we're going through. But we also both clearly want to be first. And he's looking at me like, who's this, you know, bit younger guy who doesn't have the real experience in Antarctica? Who does he think he is? And I'm kind of like trying to be like confident in my plan. And so plane drops us off. We're at a mile apart from each other, equidistant from the first waypoint, the first like GPS marker on the map. And I get out there and I've got this video of me being like, it's a blue sky day.

1:47It's great. after all year of planning, it's finally time for me to like try to cross Anardyca. I'm taking the first step and I bend down and to pull the strap on my sled to tighten it for the first time and ping the strap breaks. Literally the strap breaks like it's minus 25 and the plastic can't handle it. Break. So right out of the gate, I'm like, wow, this is going to be a long journey. It's before the first step. So then I strap into my sled and the sled's the heaviest on the first day, 375 pounds to start was about the maximum I thought I could pull. So I put as much food as I could, even though I knew I was going to burn 10 ,000 calories per day.

2:19And I factored I could carry about 7 ,000 calories. So I was going to lose weight every single day straight from the get go, even eating 7 ,000 calories. That's how intense and cold it is. And so I start pulling my sled. And you asked me before about sweat, about one hour in I'm sweating and I'm like, wait, this sled's so heavy, but I can't not pull it without sweating. And so I start sweating. Then I realized I actually don't think I can pull the sled and I start crying. I literally start crying but what happens when you cry when it's minus 25 degrees up it freezes to your face so I have frozen tears to my face and I'm one hour two hours into this journey and so I do the only thing I could think of is I call home to Jenna and so I pick up the phone and I go hey babe um yeah we may have named our project the right thing it appears to be impossible because we had called it the impossible first.

3:10Wow. And she's like, uh-oh. And so she tries to, you know, she's like, okay, well. And meanwhile, I'm seeing Lou disappear on the horizon with this beautiful, like, ski stroke, like, totally knows what he's doing, like, strong and steady out there. And, like, at this point, I can't even think about the fact that there's a race in place. I mean, I'm just trying to, like, get through the first day. And so she says to me, Colin, how far are you from the first waypoint? Like, she knows the route. We've studied it. She knows everything. the first waypoints only a few miles from the drop-off point and I'm like I'm point six three miles from you it's as if I'm saying it's a million miles but she's like okay so you're half a mile from the first waypoint like this goes back to original question strategy right and she's like do me a favor like whatever you do I know it's heavy I know you're sweating I know you're exhausted and you're probably a little bit afraid understandably like get to the first waypoint get to that first waypoint and you'll felt like you got somewhere on the first day so for the next hour i struggled and battled and get to that first waypoint set up my tent get inside my tent and i say to jenna like i call her again it's kind of our safety check at night off the sat phone she's like how are you doing i was like obviously i'm stressed just look i actually went out there intentionally with not a lot of music not a lot of podcasts because i wanted to explore the silence of these flow states that i hope to tap into in my mind something i'm very curious about the sort of mental side of this and she goes tomorrow do me a favor try to find the flow even if just for a minute or two minutes it's gonna be a hard day so just those words i went to sleep and i was like okay i made it to the first waypoint i'll get up tomorrow and kind of regroup and then i woke up and i'm big on mantras but this mantra had never been with me before this and just came to me out loud as my alarm went off to wake me up on my first real full day out there i said out loud to myself i said colin you are strong you are capable you are strong you are capable and that ended up being my mantra every single day really waking up for the rest of the entire 54 day journey.

5:01And sure enough, that next day, was it stupid challenging? Yes. But instead of two miles, I made it eight miles. And I found that flow state for a minute. The next day was nine miles. And I found that flow for two or three minutes. And so we had a strategy. It went out the window on day one, had to refocus, refocus on the mind, adjust a few things with our strategy. Cause I was hoping to go further distances in that. She's like, well, like maybe it's not shorter distances at this at first but as it gets lighter maybe you'll go longer and all this kind of stuff and so you know how do you strategize and plan for something that's been told is impossible you're stepping into the unknown it's by being adaptable and ultimately realizing that these things are happening in our minds these doubts these fears that's a human thing i don't care who you are i still have them i have four world records and i had you know some bit of success in my life through challenges but like i wake up every day with doubts and fears and challenges, but it's being able to quiet that in my mind and continue to get to that first waypoint or get to that next step forward in whatever you're doing.

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