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Habits of longterm health include making a plan and trusting in it! Drive yourself toward longterm health with a plan you’re confident in.
Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m not bringing the mushy-gushy today, but I hope you enjoy your day, whatever you do! 🙂 Today, I’m sharing the next installment of the Habits of Longterm Health series — Make a Plan & Trust In It. Last month, we talked about owning your choices and behaviors while transitioning from a reactive to a proactive mindset. Check out Habits of Longterm Health: Take Charge of You and get caught up!
Habits of Longterm Health Review
Remember that as behaviors followed until almost voluntary, habits are built one day at a time. Don’t expect or pressure yourself to make a hundred changes at once. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with taking it one day at a time!
Make a Plan & Trust In It
To make changes to your health and habits, you should have a plan in place. But it doesn’t have to be perfect, and you don’t even have to know (100 percent) what you’re doing! I’ve mentioned that my mindset shift occurred on a Monday in October instead of on January 1. I signed up for a 4-days-a-week bootcamp class and truly had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Related: Habits of Longterm Health: Take Charge of You
Over the next six weeks, I showed up to that 5 a.m. class every Monday-Thursday and let someone else tell me what to do. I was still learning about nutrition and didn’t know what kind of workouts I should be doing. I thought “cardio” only meant running. But I knew the small changes I was making were bound to yield some type of results, so I trusted in the instructor, the schedule, and the arbitrary “nothing fried” goal I’d set for myself. Even though I didn’t fully understand it yet, I knew I was making better choices for my body and my health than I had in years. I began to realize this must be where that phrase, “Trust the process,” comes from.
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Throughout those six weeks, I learned more and more about exercise and nutrition and began to understand why things were happening the way they were as I trusted the process. As time passed, I became more comfortable with making and following plans of my own.
So where does this leave you? How do you make a plan and trust in it when you’re not even sure what you’re doing? Well, it can be as easy as signing up for a pack of classes at a local studio or following a pre-written program schedule. Most gyms post their class schedules online and trainers all over the Internet release a workout schedule each week! If you’re really ready to dive in, making a plan could mean hiring a personal trainer or doing the research to create your own program.
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If you’ve already decided to take charge of you, making a plan is the natural next step and the complexity of that is left up to you. Notice it’s not about making a plan and sticking to it. Mess-ups and boo-boos are bound to happen at some point, but trusting in your longterm plan will help you right your course. So good luck and get after it!
Because a natural part of making a plan is also setting goals, we’ll be tackling that next month! Come back for SMART Goal Setting!
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Habits of Longterm Health:
- Take Charge of You
- Make a Plan & Trust in It
- SMART Goal Setting
- Prioritizing
- Improvement Over Competition
- Growth Mindset
- Giving Grace to Yourself
- Communication
- Giving Grace to Others
- Synergistic Training
- Striking the Balance
- Living Your Life
I’m linking up with Nicole and Annmarie for Wild Workout Wednesday!
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