You’ve Got Another Chance
Did you assess your time spent investing in your health as I outlined in Tuesday’s Memo, counting up the time per day, week, or month you spend in the activities that will benefit your long-term health? How did you do? Did you think of more than the short list I provided? Did you come away disappointed with your efforts? I know that I did in some areas.
Life is giving you another chance—in fact, it’s giving you more than one. As long as you draw breath, you can always start. You don’t even have to wait until the new year; pick one thing and begin working on it today. Then, when that change becomes a habit, start on another one. You don’t have to begin everything all at once; in fact, it’s better if you try one change at a time and see how that works before adding more.
If you fail, start again. As Seth Godin said in a recent post, everyone needs more chances. But whether this is the time you actually lose the weight, lower your HbA1c, add that muscle, or whatever is important to your long-term health, taking that next chance is determined by only one thing:
What are you going to do with that chance this time?
It doesn’t matter what you haven’t done—you need to succeed only once at changing a poor health habit into a good one that you will maintain. Take that chance and do something with it this time. Next year, we all could be having completely different conversations. So, really:
What are you prepared to do today?
