The other day, I wrote about having a plan for success with your health goals. Today, I am continuing with sharing about lifelong health success tips with how to execute your plan for success daily. As many of our clients at the clinic will attest to, I am big on doing. It is not only important to think or plan to do something, the achievement of that something is in the doing of it. When it comes to health, I believe daily execution of specified health actions, befitting the set goals, is the key.
Not too long ago, I shared about the power of the doubling penny and daily health actions. In that same vein, it is important to make the commitment to your health by having 3 to 5 action items supporting your health planned into your day, every day. Let me illustrate what I mean, my health plan includes:
95% raw foods
water as my beverage of choice
eliminate caffeine (which meant not consuming three of my favorite foods: cacao, kombucha and green tea)
bike 3 times a week
prepare my own foods
eat out as less as possible when traveling
To fulfill this plan, I made some other changes. I knew a gym membership would not work for me because I am too lazy to get up early in the morning, get dressed, go to the gym, exercise, get back in the car, return to my home, shower and then get dressed to go in to the clinic (if you could see me now, I am grimacing as I am writing this. I have a serious anathema!) So, I bought a stationary bike for my use at home. With the bike, all I now do is get up early (I like that part) and stroll into the living room to bike for 30 minutes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays while I read something inspirational to spark my thinking plugs.
With my foods, I do my shopping on weekends and plan each day's meals ahead of the day. I take my food into work or have the ingredients stored at work so I can whip up my meal when I am ready for it. When I am traveling, I have a mini refrigerator and cooler that goes with me. As a reminder of my decision to abstain from caffeine, I penned it into my daily calendar and I also informed my friends so they can keep me accountable.
I also keep myself accountable with my tracking, which I will go into details about in another article.
If 4 to 5 things are too much to do, start with one thing and do it until it becomes routine. Then add the next thing on your plan and do that till it also is routine, and so on. Like brushing your teeth, the daily execution of your health plan can become routine very quickly; and one of the benefits of routine is that you don't have to think too much about it, after a while. When your health plan becomes routine, it can become a great habit.