Easy health Tip #3: Change lots of little things
July 5, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Easy Health Tips, Misc., Prevention, Your Body
Baby steps go out the door…
Look, Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was my gut. Since I’m opposed to actually lighting my gut on fire to get rid of it, I’ll have to take it apart a piece at a time. The best way to do this is pretty simple: every way that I can think of.
Being healthy is a state of mind. Lots of little things will add up someday, which is what the Easy Health Tip feature is all about. It’s hard to get up at 6:00am and go run 3 miles. If it wasn’t hard, I would do it everyday instead of 2 or 3 times a week. It’s pretty easy to skip escalators and take the stairs when possible. So I do it every time I get the chance. And while that may not sound like an earth-shattering event (and it’s not), it is a change in your state of mind about things.
If you start doing little things now they’ll add up in the long run. I think of it like saving for your 401k, if you start putting in a dollar a day in your twenties, you’ll beat the late-comer, putting in $50 a day in his forties, every time.
Oh, yeah, and that was tip #3 snuggled up in the second paragraph, in case you missed it.
[tags] fitness, health [/tags]
Alternate approach:
Overwhelming Force
No kidding man, we are not getting any younger, we need to start now while we are still able to run!
Ah yes, StevPavlina.com is an awesome site. I love the \”overwhelming force\” theory, and I consider Steve Pavlina a genius in a few different ways, but you cannot use \”overwhelming force\” on everything in your life.
If you\’re doing a triathlon or starting a business that\’s an awesome method, but if you use it to accomplish goals like \”try and drink more on water\” or \”only eat fast food once a week,\” you\’ll end up overcommiting your resources. It would be like using a .44 Magnum to kill an ant. Effective beyond a doubt, but a waste of resources.
Anyway, that\’s a great article, mildweed. Thanks for posting it. I\’m sure I\’ll be covering a Steve Pavlina theory or two on here in the future.
what’s a “trithlon”?
Corrected, thanks so much.
Now my comment doesn’t make any sense and I look dumb.
I think I could run if someone was chasing me. Usually I have to have a motivation that’s behind me to make me go forward.
Oh, wait – that’s probably my butt.
Okay, so I should start running too.
Dang it.