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Focus on doing hard things every day and you’ll realize doing them isn’t that hard at all.

28 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Andy Neary alternates between a 190-degree sauna and an outdoor cold plunge, descending 5-6 feet through a hole in the ice. The anticipatory dread vanishes the moment he does it, revealing that hard things feel less hard once you actually try them.

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About 190 degrees (F).

About five to six feet deep; water reached chest/neck height when at the bottom.

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So the whole plan is you go in the sauna. By the way, we had the sauna at 190 degrees, which is typically beyond my level of comfort. And we just rotate between the sauna and the cold plunge. Sauna and the cold plunge. The the first time I headed down to the cold plunge to jump into the hole, we had cut into the ice. I had noticed it was cold enough that the hole had already started to develop slush. So that tells you how cold the water was heading down the stairs to the lake. You have a lot of chatter going on, a lot of self doubt, right? And what's always interesting when I partake in this up at his cabin is you go in, we stick a ladder in the hole right down to the bottom. It's probably about five or six feet deep. We just climb down the ladder till we get to the bottom. It's about chest, neck high. Every time I do that and I get out, I realize it's not that hard. It's not as hard as I thought. All that self chatter that I had going on. The minutes leading up to walking down and jumping in that hole. Once you're done, you go, wow, that really wasn't that bad. And you're actually looking forward to the next time to do it, right?