What do YOU want?
When you think of your health, what is it that you want for yourself?
No one can tell you want you want, it’s something you need to find out for yourself. But since you’re here, let’s see what we can do about it together.
- Do you have a habit you are trying to quit?
- Would you like to drink less alcohol or quit smoking?
- Would you like to eat better?
- Would you like to be happier with how you look?
- Would you like to be able to find the motivation you need to be more active?
- Would you like to get off your medications?
- Are you sick of being diabetic or having high blood pressure or high cholesterol and want to go back to time when you didn’t need the medications to live normally?
- Are you tired of getting colds and flues or infections all the time?
- Have you been hospitalized recently because of a chronic health issue and now you are scared for your life?
- Are you in pain? Do you have daily full-body pain from inflammation, or maybe gastro-intestinal pain every time you eat?
- Do you have a new addition to your family, and you are having trouble keeping up or you are looking to the future and want to be around to be a part of it?
Whatever brought you here, I’m glad you are here. We can help you.
We know we can all do better. We know the things we need to do to be healthy, but we just need to find the motivation to do them. Maybe you’ve started a healthy lifestyle or a new diet before and you stuck with it for a few weeks until something happened and you fell off track. I’ve been there. Everyone has. Let’s see if this time we can do something different to have a longer lasting result.
I want you to think about what you want. What you truly want, for yourself in terms of your health. Write it all down. Make a picture mood board, if that helps. Dig deep down, and list out all parts of your objectives for yourself. Be as detailed as you can. No one is going to see this list but you if you choose.
- I want to feel good again, have more energy
- I want to look better naked
- I want to not be sick all the time
Now next to each one of those parts of your goal that you wrote down, I want you to list out the “why”. Try to go as deep as you can. The real “why”. To give you an example from a friend of ours: “I no longer want to be diabetic because I don’t want to lose my limbs like my aunt did.”
That’s what I want from you right now. What is your why? Maybe it’s not as physically extreme as that. Maybe it’s you not wanting to feel sad anymore. If you are having trouble finding your why, do some research on your chronic issues and see what is in store for you if you don’t change now. What really happens to people who have diabetes after decades of taking insulin? Look to your family as a why, and wanting to be able to attend weddings or meet grandchildren. Not wanting to be left behind.
That is your homework. What do you want… and why?
Once you figure that out, we can move on to step 2.
