Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough?
Do you lie in bed at night thinking what you should have done?
Do you feel like what you are doing isn’t good enough?
What if that overwhelm is what is keeping you from hitting your goals?
The ocean of knowledge shared with us via emails, social media or any platform is quite frankly, overwhelming.
It can lead to us thinking incessantly that we aren’t doing enough, that we should be doing more.
However, that alone will lead to one thing: inconsistency in what truly matters.
If you always feel like you should be doing HIIT workouts, you may not focus on the important life saving aspect of getting in a daily walk.
If you always feel like you’re not getting enough protein, you might reach for highly processed sources (like protein chips?!) just to hit that goal, rather than focusing on the essential habit of eating real food.
If you always feel like your efforts aren’t enough, you might one day decide, what’s the point in putting in any effort anyway?
That’s the battle.
In any endeavor in life, even in endeavors that involve a physical goal, the true battle is in our mind.
We take action based off of our beliefs.
And if our belief becomes faulty, we will not take the action necessary to do what’s required to age well and prevent disease.
Here are 3 *very simple* truths for wellness that you can apply in any situation:
Eat more real food. Eat more real sources of protein, eat more fruit, vegetables, and real food that doesn’t have a laundry list of ingredients and preservatives.
Go for a walk. Want to build muscle? Want to boost your mood? Want to prevent heart disease, stroke, or balance blood sugar? Walking is the greatest investment in your physical and mental goals.
Write it down. Sometimes, it’s hard to acknowledge how much we can really get in our head. Meaning, we can overthink, overanalyze, or even misconstrue reality. The simple act of writing down emotions forces us to organize thoughts in our brain in order to put pen to paper. And by being forced to organize these emotions or stressors, we are then able to process them and in turn prevent them from leading to more and more stress.
This is a habit I started during an excessively stressful time in my own life, and it had a massive impact on my physical health.
We often forget that connection.
And that is why it’s important to remember, your approach to health and wellness should help you manage stress rather than add to it.
You will find being consistent with less can help us reap greater rewards than being inconsistent with more.
Do less.
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