Taking one step at a time

The key to health is living it. You can want it. You can even talk about it all day, but if you don’t live it, you won’t be able to reach your health goals. The phrase that comes to mind is, “if you don’t give it, you won’t live it.” What do we need to give in order to be…excuse me, to live healthy?

That is where it gets interesting. What are you willing to give? More importantly, what do you want to get? How do you want to live? It is interesting to me how simple it is. It is as simple as deciding what you want and what it takes to get it. The challenge is that we don’t often know how we want to live or what it takes to get there. Many people are stuck thinking they can’t change because the “sacrifice” is too great.

We think that the changes we “want” to make are too difficult. We think that by not changing, things are and will continue to be easier than changing. There are certain fears that we have around change that continue to hold us back. In reality, they can change and the sacrifice is not as significant as they thought.

How can you make this happen? The only way to do it is one step at a time. When you look at your life as one large step and the only way to change is to change it all at once, it will be difficult. In fact, it is difficult to even get started. So what can you do? You can take the first step. By taking the first step…and only the first step you can get started. Once step one is done, you can think about taking step two. No matter how many steps you have to take, you can only take one at a time anyway, so why not set realistic goals and reach them? Is that a major sacrifice?