It has been a crazy and difficult few months, and it seems like stress and turmoil are everywhere. I hope you are staying safe and healthy in the midst of it all and I hope that TD Fitness can be a healthful resource for you during this time. This is a good time to pause, …
Start With Your Strengths
Instead of jumping right into the most difficult areas for you to change, seek to make your strengths even stronger, and your weaknesses just a little bit better. Maintain that focus instead of trying to perfect all areas of your health and fitness habits.
How Ready Are You?
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.
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 …