It’s not easy to stay on track with your health, especially when life serves up curveballs that are tough to navigate. (Pandemic anyone??) Here are 6 tips I’ve gathered from my 15 years as a professional health coach to help keep you on track, even when life goes awry.
Keeping Your Health and Wellness on Track
1. Create your vision and be flexible with your timeline
While it’s important to create a vision of what you want for your health and wellness, things don’t always go according to plan. The trick is to hold to your vision and be willing to be flexible when progress takes longer than you’d like.
2. Clarify your why You are Health Conscious
Remember why you’re focusing on your health in the first place will keep you on track when you hit speed bumps.
3. “Choose 3” Habits to Change – Don’t Overwhelm Yourself by Doing Too Much
During the pandemic, I was juggling a full time job, parenting, homeschooling and more. I couldn’t do everything I wanted for my health, so I decided to choose 3 habits that would make the biggest difference and to commit 100% to those. Small habits done consistently over time can create huge change.
4. Set up your environment for success
How might you set up your home and your relationships to support your health goals? For example, my husband and I worked out a schedule so each of us has time for exercise during the week, he fills up bottles of water for the fridge so I can track my water intake and we order prepared meals during the week so we can eat healthy.
5. Replace “all or nothing” thinking with “something is better than nothing” thinking
One of the biggest impediments to making progress with your health is believing that you either have to do all the healthy things perfectly, or you’ll do none of the healthy things at all. Eating one healthy meal or taking one walk or sitting for one 5 minute meditation is better than doing nothing. Trying to do it all “perfectly” is a sure-fire way to set yourself up to fail.
6. Set up accountability for your Health results
The more accountability you have, the better results you’ll get. According to Harvard Health, studies show that working with a health coach can help you create “clinically relevant improvements”, which is a fancy way of saying that health coaching can help you get results that are hard to get on your own.
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