Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Take Action Now

  • You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting. —Roger Seip
  • If we want to know what we value in life, then let’s go and evaluate how we spend money and places we visit. We need to do an assessment on how we spend our time daily.  
  • Taking action is the final nail in the coffin. Without action nothing happens. You move. You act. You create motion. You cause change. You win.
  • The Three Faces of Inaction.
    • Fear: “I’m scared to do it.”
    • Entitlement: “I shouldn’t have to do it.”
    • Perfectionism: “I won’t try to do it if I can’t do it right.” .
  • Why do so many of us succumb to fear? Because it’s more convenient and more comfortable for us to let our dreams disappear than to muster up the discipline and the work ethic to go out and transform them into reality.
  • It’s okay to be scared—do it scared. It’s okay to be unsure—do it unsure. It’s okay to be uncomfortable—do it uncomfortable. Just get started where you are.
  • Many of us are frustrated because somehow we believe that we are entitled to a life that is supposed to be easier. We want someone else to work the long hours for us, someone else to solve our problems, someone else to teach us, someone else to get us out of debt, someone else to pay for our retirement, someone else to take care of our kids, someone else to make us feel good about ourselves, someone else to give us what we want. These beliefs are so ingrained and ubiquitous that we don’t even notice them anymore.
  • Ease, comfort, and true satisfaction come through action. They come through working harder than you ever have before. They come from making more sacrifices, getting more done, being more focused, being more frugal, being more prudent, and being more committed.
  • Instead of working, we wait. We wait for the perfect plan, the perfect time, and the perfect resources. The problem is, the perfect circumstances never show up.
  • What was once a harmless decision of opting for safety soon becomes a limiting, even debilitating lifestyle of inaction.
  • The challenges we face today are not a matter of skill, but a matter of will.
  • Our problem isn’t time management; it is self-management. And we’re not losing to poor circumstances as much as we’re losing to a lack of self-discipline.

*Article inspired by book “Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success”

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~Praveen Jada

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