To Make Changes in Your Life and for Your Health - Do Just One Thing
Maybe part of the answer is to isolate our goals and change our old bad habits one at a time. Human beings hate change. Our schedules are usually forced on us by family and work and outside circumstances. We have already accommodated ourselves to them the best we can. Making changes is tough.
But you can! Pick one thing - just one - that you need to change, and put your mind to work about how to improve it. Do you feel you should be drinking more water? Why aren't you doing it now, too busy? Think about the easiest way to do it. Maybe get a water bottle to keep nearby on your desk or in the car. It should hold enough so that you aren't getting up all the time to refill it.
Analyze the downside. Worried about frequent bathroom visits? If you aren't on a salt-restricted diet, adding a little salt to the water helps water permeate your cells rather than just "go right through you". Or keep a few salt packets nearby and simply touch a little to the tip of your tongue every 12 ounces or so. This won't shoot your sodium levels through the roof and it will slowly enter your system with the extra water. If you're concerned about mineral levels, be sure you are taking a daily multi-mineral supplement.
Make changes that you can handle at the pace you can handle. If you feel pressured to 'do the right thing', you may not do anything at all. Make simple changes. Be steadfast about each one until it becomes a habit - something you do naturally every day. Once you have a new habit of drinking more water, THEN, and only then, can you free your mind to think about another SIMPLE change.
By the way, when it comes to water drinking, make sure it's filtered water. Tests have shown that most bottled water is just somebody else's tap water. Spend the money for an under-the-counter water filter for your kitchen and fill your own bottles. After the initial expenditure of about $40, it's all yours. You spend that much about every few months purchasing bottled water anyway!
Remember, anything you change today that betters your life or health, makes things better over the long haul. Do something different - and better- today!
Published by Marie Thomas
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- Pick one thing you need to change.
- Analyze what you need to do to accomplish that change up front and dwell on the advantages.
- Assess the downsides and be prepared to counter issues that might arise.