Happy New Year! As the celebration continues, you may be thinking about making a few resolutions to fill this year with success and prosperity. If so, I hope you include a resolution focused on optimal health. I truly believe good health is the only way to enjoy an active, fulfilling life with purpose. Plus, there’s a bonus: Your good health and high energy shows others just what optimal health looks like and helps you build a thriving Nutrilite business. But before you begin the hard work of turning your resolutions into reality, I encourage you to do one thing.
Find your big reason for why optimal health is important to you.
What’s your big reason?
What’s a big reason? It’s much more meaningful than counting steps in a fitness app, completing your morning meditation, or seeing the numbers on the scale move closer to your ideal weight. Don’t get me wrong, these are all good habits that can get you closer to your goals, but even the best action plan will fizzle fast unless you have a compelling reason to keep moving forward.
So ask yourself: Why is being healthy so important to you?
When you find your big reason, I can almost guarantee that you’ll make better choices. What’s more, you’ll be more likely to stay committed for a longer period of time.
One study, published in the July 2015 issue of the journal Appetite, really drives this point home. For this study, university researchers recruited participants from the United States, Canada and other countries who were vegans and then asked them about the reasons they chose this type of diet.
You probably recognize many of the benefits of plant-based diets. For example, vegetarians and vegans are at lower risk of developing a wide variety of common health conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, certain types of cancer, and obesity.
In fact, just about any move you can make toward a more plant-based diet is likely to deliver serious benefits for your health (and the health of the planet). But this is only true if you can stick with it.
Better choices start with a big reason
Turns out, the study participants who ate a vegan diet the longest were those who did so for ethical reasons rather than simply for health reasons. In short, they had a compelling reason, a reason so strong that it fortified their resolve to continue to make the better choices.
There’s no debate that staying healthy takes work. I wish I had a shortcut to share, but in reality, I work at it just like everyone else. I stick to my morning exercise. I choose to eat healthy meals and eat my Nutrilite supplements. I make it a priority to keep stress low and restful sleep high.
What makes it a whole lot easier to keep at it is my big reason why. I commit to these habits so I can do one thing: I want to have the energy I need to be fully present in all that I do whether it’s in business or life.
As you welcome in the New Year, I encourage you to find your big reason. Make it one that excites you about getting up in the morning, one that inspires you to take on new challenges, and the one that helps you to chip away at any obstacles that keep you from all the success you deserve in health, life and business.
Cheers,
