The last physical hindrance to speak on this week is how to revamp your physical health journey. Specifically ways for you to have a healthier life and being intentional about your health. The 3 ways to do this are to know your reasons for why you haven’t started, building a plan to specifically address these reasons, and executing the plan.

Know what’s holding you back.

Most people have a basic understanding of healthy living: you have to eat fruits and vegetables and workout. Very few people know exactly what will work for their health, and specifically why they don’t take advantage of those skills. Take a quick dive into who you are from an overseers prospective. Do you have fear of failure? Gym intimidation? No time? No idea what to do or where to start? Knowing why you don’t do what you should and building solutions to combat this will set you up for success.

Build a Plan that addresses your hindrances.

Once you know what holds you back you can then build a strategic plan to push you toward where you want to be. To build a plan you need to:

Evaluate the problem: If you did step 1, you’ve done this!

Set a goal!

Knowing you want to be healthy is one thing, but what does that look like for you? Do you want to eat better, take your medication regularly, practice better hygiene habits, lose weight, gain weight, run a marathon, etc?

Learn what works best for you.

Once you have a goal, you can do some research about meeting the goal and what will work for you. If you want to run a marathon, but you aren’t the most athletic, you want to probably start with walking. Whereas if you already are running a few miles a day, you would start by gradually running a little longer. Either way, doing some basic research about your goal and different ways people achieved it will give context to your journey.

Become knowledgeable on how to scale what works for you and build systems to those incorporate steps.

Having a goal is great. Meeting it is even better. Changing your lifestyle completely is key! Becoming healthier is more than running the marathon, even if that is a goal. Becoming healthier is building change for a lifetime. To do this, you have to scale your goals to build systems that will change your life.

For example, if your goal is to run a marathon, the lifestyle change happens when you implement weekly running schedules and increase distance and time based on your desired result and recovery. Another example is losing weight. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you would build both an eating and exercise schedule that gets you to your goals, but will be easy for you to follow forever. You would build in contingency plans for holidays and special occasions to keep you on track.

Execute!

The final step is to execute your plan. Executing includes enacting your steps and reevaluating periodically (I say every time you meet a goal) to make sure you’re still on track.

With these 3 very simple steps you’ll be on your way to becoming your healthier self almost immediately. While this is a generalized group of steps, this process works for all areas of physical wellness and produces lasting results.