Over the past couple of months, we’ve stepped through my principles for healthier living as they relate to better nutrition, and at the end of the day, it really comes down to making better nutrition choices. As with just about everything in life, it starts with the right mindset, not just through the vision of …
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Not Seeing Results?
What do we do when the progress we seek eludes us? How do we continue to press on toward the change we seek? It’s an important question because, for most of us, it’s easy to continue when you start to see the results you’re looking for. It’s easier to maintain a particular diet when you …
Replace Win or Lose with Try and Learn
Professional athletes don’t just seek to win. They seek to learn from every experience. They do this because they know that there is no “finish line” when it comes to self-improvement. They constantly work to get better. You may not be a professional athlete, but you can further grow your capacity to learn. If you …
Measure What You Do, Not the Result
So what should we measure? When it comes to healthier living, I’m always a proponent of measuring actions, not outcomes. The keyword in improving your health is to be healthIER. That means improving what you do, the things you can control…not what happens because of what you do. This is particularly applicable in nutrition because …
Your Perspective on Success
Why do we measure what we measure? It’s because we need, or want to compare. When it comes to nutrition, we compare what we ate to what we were supposed to eat on a particular diet… We compare what we are eating now to what the friends next to us are eating… We compare that …