Your readiness for change is perhaps the most overlooked component in starting a new healthy habit. The higher you are on the readiness scale, the greater your chances of making long term positive change. If you’re lower on the readiness scale, your chances of sticking with those long-term, healthy habit changes, also decrease.
Trainer Advice
Assess Your Stress
One thing to consider as you look to determine your starting point for a new healthy habit is the amount of stress in your life. We have a significantly reduced chance of successfully starting and maintaining a new habit during stressful times in our lives.
What the Past is For
The purpose of our past should be to inform your approach going forward. It should not affect your attitude or belief in yourself. It’s important to separate past performance from the belief you have in yourself. What allows us to move forward, to be better versions of ourselves, is our thought and our belief about …
Where You’re Supposed to Be
You are exactly where you need to be, no matter your present state of health. It takes time to improve, and it takes time to move forward to who you desire to be. It’s a journey, and the journey is necessary.
The Past is Just That
Mistakes happen…you may have missteps in your attempts at better health and fitness. But it’s important to move past those missteps quickly and move on. The past doesn’t define you. And oftentimes you can’t move forward until you let the past go.