As a student, your teachers planned lessons, home-work assignments and taught you planning to get your school work done on time creates success.
As a new employee, you might have been asked "What's your 5 year plan?" Why? People who have a plan of action know where they are going and are more successful at achieving what they planned than those who don't.
As a boss, you have plans for your business each day, week and month. Why? Because having a plan creates a successful business.
As you have children, you plan every aspect of their life from sunrise to sunset. You not only plan their daily activities, you plan for their future too so they can have the best possible life.
When it comes to your health, what's your plan for the best possible life? If you don't have a plan right now you are probably wondering
"A plan, I need a plan?"
You spend so much time planning for other things and people in your life sometimes you forget you need a plan for yourself. Why is a plan important? Because without a plan, what's important gets lost in the messiness of every day. You loose sight of what's really important. You are really important. You are worth planning for. You deserve to live a full life filled with longevity and vitality;
for that you need a plan.
So what's the plan? How about planning to start with a small change, something easy to do? It's a big mistake to plan to 'over hall' your diet in one day or even to try to make too many little changes at once going for the big weight loss. This plan creates disappointment, failure, undermines your success and results in gaining the weight back and then some.
A healthy life plan; one free of chronic illness and disease is the plan to go for. The healthy life plan takes time and commitment.
An example of one small change is to plan to eat a healthy breakfast every day. Sounds easy enough but if you are a 'breakfast skipper' or a 'grab-n-go' kind of gal, then this maybe harder than it seems a first. Planning for breakfast takes a few minutes of brainstorming, and strategy developing but once you have a plan, stick to it. Eat breakfast everyday without fail, then select your next healthy lifestyle modification maybe add one fruit to your lunch menu.
What's important is not what you change but how you make the changes; one step at a time. Once you have mastered one healthy lifestyle habit you are ready to take the next small step with confidence, building on your successes and insuring your health. You're not in race, you are creating a life!
The AHA BetterU Challenge focuses on creating a personal plan of action to move you towards better health and longevity. The AHA BetterU plan demonstrates the road to better health is traveled best with small weekly behavior adjustments, developing strategies that work, slowly moving you towards your goal of making perminate lifestyle behavior changes with a group of like minded people who all want to get healthier. This is the plan to the healthier life you are seeking.
Enjoying a healthier life is not just for our BetterU Challengers it's for all of us, after all we deserve it!
Sounds like a winning plan to me!
Your partner in health,
Cindy Cohen RN, BS BA
Health Coach
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