Every day you make choices that will affect your health. Whether you are 20 years old or 70 years old, these choices are going to either increase or decrease your risk of developing diseases. It is time that you have the information needed to make healthy changes. You need to reduce you stress, get things in control and improve your health. You need to create habits that will become engrained into you. Instead of getting donut, you will start grabbing a banana instead. There are some steps here today that will help you shape healthy changes into your life. Each change you make starts by creating a goal and a plan. Find out how you can do this now.
Selecting Your Goal
The first thing you need to do to make healthy changes is to start selecting your goal. You need to find a goal that will best work for you and not for others. You may come up with a goal that you don’t think should be at the top of your list. However, the first goal that comes to your mind means that it is important to you or that you enjoy the thought of that goal. Stick with it and keep going.
Asking Yourself the Important Question
The next step in the plan, after selecting your goal, is to start asking yourself the important question. Are any of your dreams matched up with that goal? You might have dreams of running a 5K and the goal you imagined was to run a mile in a certain time frame. These two things would match up and you can work with this. If you can’t come up with a dream that matches up with the goal, don’t worry too much about it. You can still meet your goal with other methods.
Reasons for Making Changes
If you are going to make healthy changes in your life, you need to have reasons backing it up. If you don’t have a strong reason for why you are changing something in your life, you are less likely to commit to that change or goal. Do you want to stick with an exercise plan so you can lose weight? Would you like to eat healthier so you can feel better? Once you can get some reasons for why you want to meet a certain goal, you have a higher chance of accomplishing that goal.
Making Yourself Commit
How are you going to make yourself commit to the goal? You can write down your goal, sign it and get a couple witnesses. This way you know you are holding yourself accountable to that goal. You may want to get others involved. If you are going to the gym, you may want to invite others to come along with you. When trying to eat healthier, you may commit to only buying certain foods each week and rewarding yourself if you do this.
Obstacles in the Way
It is important to think of some possible obstacles before you begin the attempt at your goal. These don’t have to be anything large. You may think that you won’t make it to the gym because of work. If that happens, you can do your work out when you get home instead. If you plan a way around the obstacles, you will be much more likely to meet your goals.
Use Rewards
Most people benefit from using rewards. Whether you are trying to lose weight, go to the gym more, work out for longer or do something else that is great for your health, you can reward yourself. The reward should be healthy for you. Maybe you will have a night hanging with your friends if you go to the gym so many days. You might want to go to a restaurant if you stick to your healthy eating plan for so many days. If you do that, just make sure you are still eating something decent when you get to the restaurant as well.
These are some steps you can make to create healthy changes in your life. Once you can engrain these steps into your life as habits, you will be more likely to stick to the goals you make and keep going forward with others goals as well.
