October 21st, 2017
I'd like to compare goals to fingers. We all have not just one but many goals and everybody’s fingers, I mean goals are all different. Some are short, some are long, some are big and some are small. I probably have more fingers than goals, physically speaking that is.
But when it comes to nutritional goals, especially when you’re thinking about completely changing to a ketogenic lifestyle what happens next? One goal might be to lose 20 pounds in a week. Okay well, I by no means question your enthusiasm but I might ask you to dig a little bit deeper. Numbers aside if I asked you to think about one thing in your life that you’d like to be able to do on a daily basis but couldn’t what would it be? I know that might sound like a silly question but just bear with me for a second. Maybe it’s something you haven’t been able to do in a long time.
I remember just recently my 67 year-old grandma told me about how she had just started driving again. She said “I haven’t been able to do that in over 20 years, I almost forgot what it was like.” It could be a daily activity you might take for granted, but it’s really the small goals that help you build up to the big goals. For her it was something as simple as being able to drive a car again, whereas for you it might be re-learning how to ride a bike or bending down to touch your toes.
Goals are important in life; they give us direction and something to strive towards on a daily basis. When it comes to your health I truly believe that goals are mandatory. A relatively simple goal might just be striving to achieve a better lifestyle. Don’t be afraid to nourish your body with clean healthy food and give it the proper attention that it needs. You only get one body in life, so it’s ultimately up to you when it comes how you’re going to take care of it.
Now like I said when comparing goals to finger, some are long and some are short. If you look at your fingers you will notice that some of them are longer or than others (hopefully). But why is that? Well I'm not a doctor or biologist so I'm probably the last guy to answer that question. You might have a short term goal of being able to walk 1 mile in your neighborhood nonstop without stopping. Right off the bat you aren't going to just hop out of bed one morning and just walk that 1 mile all of a sudden. You'll more than likely work your body up to that point by starting off small. You could walk 1/4 of a mile, take a little bit of a break then walk another 1/4 mile and call it a day after that. Nobody should fault you for an effort like that because you got out of bed and had the willpower to just do it!
You might repeat that process every other morning for a week or two until you feel comfortable. Then you might decide to add try walking the entire 1 mile all on your own and see how you do. If you can do that then hey! Mission Accomplished, Home Run, Touchdown, Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! But if we wanna go for all the marbles and try something even more daring then why not try running a marathon? I mean why not? It's not like you're racing or competing with anyone. You see what I did there? I just turned a "mini goal" into a small goal which turned into a big goal. Each one adding on top of the other until you came up with a big goal.
You gotta have them, goals and fingers more importantly. They'll all be short, long, big and small but fingers, I mean goals nonetheless.
But when it comes to nutritional goals, especially when you’re thinking about completely changing to a ketogenic lifestyle what happens next? One goal might be to lose 20 pounds in a week. Okay well, I by no means question your enthusiasm but I might ask you to dig a little bit deeper. Numbers aside if I asked you to think about one thing in your life that you’d like to be able to do on a daily basis but couldn’t what would it be? I know that might sound like a silly question but just bear with me for a second. Maybe it’s something you haven’t been able to do in a long time.
I remember just recently my 67 year-old grandma told me about how she had just started driving again. She said “I haven’t been able to do that in over 20 years, I almost forgot what it was like.” It could be a daily activity you might take for granted, but it’s really the small goals that help you build up to the big goals. For her it was something as simple as being able to drive a car again, whereas for you it might be re-learning how to ride a bike or bending down to touch your toes.
Goals are important in life; they give us direction and something to strive towards on a daily basis. When it comes to your health I truly believe that goals are mandatory. A relatively simple goal might just be striving to achieve a better lifestyle. Don’t be afraid to nourish your body with clean healthy food and give it the proper attention that it needs. You only get one body in life, so it’s ultimately up to you when it comes how you’re going to take care of it.
Now like I said when comparing goals to finger, some are long and some are short. If you look at your fingers you will notice that some of them are longer or than others (hopefully). But why is that? Well I'm not a doctor or biologist so I'm probably the last guy to answer that question. You might have a short term goal of being able to walk 1 mile in your neighborhood nonstop without stopping. Right off the bat you aren't going to just hop out of bed one morning and just walk that 1 mile all of a sudden. You'll more than likely work your body up to that point by starting off small. You could walk 1/4 of a mile, take a little bit of a break then walk another 1/4 mile and call it a day after that. Nobody should fault you for an effort like that because you got out of bed and had the willpower to just do it!
You might repeat that process every other morning for a week or two until you feel comfortable. Then you might decide to add try walking the entire 1 mile all on your own and see how you do. If you can do that then hey! Mission Accomplished, Home Run, Touchdown, Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! But if we wanna go for all the marbles and try something even more daring then why not try running a marathon? I mean why not? It's not like you're racing or competing with anyone. You see what I did there? I just turned a "mini goal" into a small goal which turned into a big goal. Each one adding on top of the other until you came up with a big goal.
You gotta have them, goals and fingers more importantly. They'll all be short, long, big and small but fingers, I mean goals nonetheless.