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Many of us have our own responsibilities to deal with, some more than most, and in that respect, it can be quite hard to live a fit and healthy lifestyle. Or so it seems. It’s not uncommon for people to think that living healthily means denying themselves the indulgences they love while spending two hours a day exercising.
Of course, we don’t mean that sardonically. It’s important to note that living healthily and following a fitness regime does take time and effort, and on top of other responsibilities, it may seem quite impossible to keep up.
That doesn’t have to be the case. What matters are small increments, and the mindset to keep up with them. But how can we achieve this mindset, and how can we use it to help us make our daily efforts where we need to? These questions can help us grow and become more confident in our fitness or health habits even if we have a busy life, because by virtue of asking them we see how the answers grant us potential and opportunity.
Let’s get started, then:
Follow A Path
Following a path can be a great way to feel more guided when starting out in your fitness journey. It can also prevent you having to expend too much mental energy when trying to adapt to your daily healthy rhythm. For instance, perhaps you wish to try out Intermittent Fasting for longevity purposes or to enjoy gut rest after a time.
Apps like Zero can help you track your fasts in this way, providing a quick and easy means of ensuring long-term potential, while also preventing the sixteen-hour daily fast from seeming totally impossible. A path might also mean using Couch 2 5k in order to stretch out your runs and your walks, making each session on your path a way to improved progress rather than feeling like an impossible hurdle. In the long run, this can truly make a thorough difference, even if we live a busy life day to day.
Motivate A Friend
When you hold yourself accountable to a friend and they do with you, it’s much easier to think that you have potential and that the other person will if only you both make the right decisions. In other words, this motivation feeds right back into us.
Why not ask your friend if they need an accountability partner? It could be tremendously helpful for you both.
Start With A Milestone
Starting with a milestone can be very helpful, from going camping and hiking in the summer weather to help start this practice, or switching out your smoking for another, less harmful habit, as 805 Beach Breaks has memberships for this, you can enjoy that rite of passage that helps you begin working with a new mindset and new set priorities.
A milestone could simply mean curating your first yoga session with your first spa day. Little introductions like this can mean the world for following a practice you’re truly engaged in.
With this advice, we hope you can properly stand to gain from curating that ‘fit and healthy’ responsibility-focused mindset.
