The perfect plan for you is one that helps you to live a little bit healthier tomorrow than you did today. It’s one that gets you moving a little bit more or gets more nutrients in your diet today than yesterday. And those decisions are yours…they have to be. Because nothing else is truly personalized …
Trainer Advice
Your Narrative and Your Surroundings
Both your surroundings and your narrative are important. And what you tell yourself, and how you view yourself is ultimately more powerful than anything else. But the greatest strides are made when you combine positive self-talk with the supporting mechanisms around you.
Go Big or Go Home?
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.