The choice doesn’t have to be to go home if I don’t go big. There are a million other places I could go! A more prudent approach is to pick a moderately challenging goal and work to get better at accomplishing it. As your capacity and ability grow, so can the difficulty of your goal.
Be Purposeful with Your Actions
Whether your goal is to lose weight, live longer, better heart-health, be better able to move so you can play with your kids, to walk a mile, or to run a marathon…that purpose should drive everything you. Because each of your actions either helps with that goal or hinders it. There’s seldom an in-between. So …
Healthy Lifestyle or Healthy Habits?
Either approach CAN work. But there’s a different mindset and outlook between the two. You should probably determine if what you’re doing is right for you…and make a choice.
Fill Up to Pour Out
Change requires effort. And you can’t expend effort if you don’t have it to give. If you want to make positive change in your life, start by freeing up some time or space…sometimes deciding what you will do is more of an exercise on saying what you won’t do.
Forget About Your Goals. Focus on Your System.
This episode was inspired by James Clear’s Atomic Habits. According to James Clear, you do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. I want to unpack this concept as it pertains to how we structure our fitness goals, and what systems I put in place so …