Baby steps will take you to the top of mt. everest

When you are finally in the right headspace to make a change, it can feel exciting to start to envision what is possible. You start to see the light at the end of the tired, sick, frustrated tunnel you’ve been stuck in. And you know and learn about what you need to do to get better, so you decide to start eating better and exercising and overhauling your sleep routine and getting more water and and and…


Who has done this?? I am definitely guilty of making all-or-nothing changes…but how often do they last when we approach them like this? You may be in a cycle right now where you’re trying to make a bunch of changes and are feeling overwhelmed and maybe like a failure because you just can’t keep it up and you have no idea how other people do it. You’re annoyed and frustrated and you get down on yourself and give up.

Now, here are a few things to remember before we continue -

1. The ultimate goal with changing your lifestyle is that it isn’t a temporary or quick fix. You’re adopting habits that you are “Ideally” going to sustain for the rest of your life (or at least for a long time, as long as the habits support your optimal health).
   
   
2. Choosing health means not choosing something else. How many times have you heard “lose weight without changing what you eat?” Or “transform your body in 5 minutes a day?” That isn’t real!! If you want to be healthier (and that doesn’t just mean less sick, it means more joyful, more energized, more fulfilled), you have to live in a healthier way. You have to let go of certain habits, behaviors, people, activities, foods and drinks…. Sorry, I’m not here to tell you what you want to hear, just what you need to hear.
   
   
3. You have to be the one to do it for yourself. No one is going to make time for you to take care of yourself if you don’t ask for it and CLAIM it. And no one can take care of you for you. If this is important to you, which I know it is because you’re here listening to this, then you have to take control, take the reins of your life and health and do something about it.

So with that being said, the key to lasting change is to get yourself into *small* action. Start with small changes that you’ll build on over time. You don’t have to do it all at once. You have the rest of your life to figure this out. So many of us live in a perpetual state of urgency — it has to be done NOW! — but it really doesn’t. You have time. So the best way to make a change that’s going to stick is to BREAK IT DOWN into the smallest steps you can and then just do one little thing to get started.

Once you’ve taken some action, you have to reevaluate.

How is this action step moving me closer to my goals?

What is working and what is not working?

​What’s the next step?