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3 Easy steps to reach your goal to get healthier
- 2024/09/13
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Do you want to get healthier? Do you want to maintain or improve your health? Setting goals is crucial. But what if you struggle to follow through? Then you're in the right place. Stay tuned to learn three easy steps to reach your goal to get healthier. Here we go again. You've decided you want to get healthy. Maybe you want to start exercising or eating better, lose a few or maybe even a lot of pounds. You want to sleep better and feel rested and energized. So you get started on your journey to get healthier. And before long, or maybe not so long., you fizzle out. Or maybe you never even got out of the starting gate and you're thinking, "Good grief. What is wrong with me that I can't get it together?" What if I told you you're doing it all wrong. There is a way to succeed and it's not hard. Don't believe me. Well, let me prove it. I'm going to show you three easy steps to reach your goal to get healthier. First let's talk about what it means to be healthy. What does get healthier mean to you? Seriously, I'd like for you to camp out on this question and don't just listen to my voice. If you can, I would encourage you right now to push pause on this podcast and brainstorm some thoughts about what it means to you to get healthier and then come back. I could give you a textbook definition of healthy. It just literally means to be in good health. That isn't much clearer, is it? So, while I've got you on the hot seat answering questions, let me ask you this. How would you know if you are healthier? Hmm, that brings it into a little bit clearer perspective, doesn't it? You see, if you can't define it, and you can't measure success, then it's really not a plan. It's an idea. It's a hope. You know, I hope my blood pressure gets better and I don't have a heart attack or a stroke. Or, I hope I can stay on a diet and fit into that dress that's too small. Or, I hope I can sleep better and feel rested. I hope so too, but I'm pretty sure it's hard to achieve goals that are so broad and so vague. Because, if you don't know exactly what you mean by get healthy, then I'm confused about what your goal is and you really aren't clear either. I know. I know it's hard. It's hard to stay on a diet or be faithful to an exercise program or have good sleep habits or manage your stress or be intentional about meaningful connections and cut back or eliminate your alcohol intake or sugar or junk food. So what is it, specifically what is it, that you are trying to accomplish when you say I want to get healthier? And I hear a lot of people say, well, I want to be able to keep up with my kids or my grandkids so that I can play with them. And other people say, I don't want to be like my mom. She was confined to the recliner for the last 10 years of her life due to poor health. Those are great motivators. But they aren't really specific goals either. Why do you want to get healthier? Because once you figure that out, you can use it to motivate you to make changes that lead to better health. Too many times we think we just don't have enough motivation, or persistence, or willpower, or self discipline to achieve our goals. Or we get sidelined by ever present stress in our lives. Or we just slip back into old habits and give up. But what set us up for failure in the first place was we didn't know exactly where we were going. You have to have a clear destination in mind, a clear goal in the first place if you're going to achieve success. If you're going to get from wherever your current health is to wherever you want it to be, you're going to need details. Lots of them. So start with nailing down the destination. Do you want to get your blood pressure normal? Do you want to be able to run a 5k? Do you want to lose 5 pounds? Do you want to sleep through the night? Get clear and get specific and then get more specific. Lifestyle medicine has six pillars. Nutritional eating, restorative sleep, physical fitness, Social Connectedness, Stress Management, and minimizing exposure to harmful substances. Pick one to really work on and start drilling down to get to the place you want to end up in. And yes, they're all interconnected. If you want to lose weight, then not only do you need to focus on nutrition and physical fitness, you also need to focus on your social circles and your restorative sleep and managing your stress. They are interconnected, there is no doubt, but you likely will not be able to make sweeping changes all at once. You need a specific destination and you need directions on how to get from here to there. And that can't mean I want to get healthier so I'm going to clean up my diet and exercise. If you don't know exactly where you're going, I guarantee you, you will never arrive. And that's what happens to most people. And here's the deal, when it comes to health, who arrives? I mean, Health is a journey with mountains and valleys along the way and twists and turns and detours you didn't...