Can you Stick with it?

We’ve been talking lately about lifespan, how to extend the good years, stay healthy into older age, and ward off chronic disease.

You can review the four simple lifestyle factors within our control to boost Longevity, in my post here. Chipping away at these, as Betsy has shown us, will improve our healthspan, living longer and healthier through those extended years!

The underlying problem I see however, is consistency and mindset! We are not embracing health, believing it is who we are, what we do, but merely scraping the surface with “good” choices only here and there when it is comfortable, and easy. We are not consistently putting in the effort, still catching ourselves making excuses as why it’s not a good time, or thinking in the future it will be easier.

If we want to feel good, look good, move well, live a healthy, longer life, we must reframe our mindset, own the choices we make, truly believe and commit to a healthy lifestyle. To make lasting change, the time is now, there is no past or future, so why are we waiting?

Maybe what we need to do is define what “healthy lifestyle” means, for each of us. What healthy is to me may not be healthy to you, and the lifestyle I lead may not be the one you want! What would you like your life to look like, what types of things would you like to do, how would you like to feel in mind and body, and for how long?

Now step back and look at your lifestyle, what is your schedule like, how do you manage stress, who and what are in your environment, how do you sleep, what do you do for exercise, what hobbies do you enjoy, types of foods do you put into your body? Do these add up to a healthy version of you? If not, what is missing, what will you allow and what will you dial in? Decide how you will do this, and simply act! Don’t wait! It’s a process, and process takes time, which we don’t have.

Our health is not something we can simply work on one day, and put aside the next. It needs to come from within, be part of who we are, leading the charge in our day to day choices. We are not “good” one day and “bad” the next, we are the sum of our parts. We decide what those parts add up to, and in the end, we pay the price.

So, who’s paying in cash and who’s gonna use their credit? (: