We're heading home this morning from our weekend of Take Shape for Life health coach training in St. Louis and will stop to visit New Salem, Illinois, a reconstruction of the village where Lincoln spent his early adulthood. I visited New Salem as part of my 8th grade school trip, so it's been *just* a few years since I've been there. I'm glad we'll have a chance for a side trip on our way home. We should get home sometime between 6 and 7 tonight, in time to finish packing for our trip to Washington state tomorrow! In preparation for these two back-to-back trips, we ordered lots of crunch bars and a case of ready-to-drink Dutch chocolate shakes, so we're ready to go! (Note: if you plan to fly, make sure your RTD shakes are in your checked luggage, not your carry on, as they won't allow them through security. Nothing is more sad than having your RTD shakes thrown in the trash!!)
One of the questions Dr. Andersen asked this weekend was, "if you could choose optimal health in your life, would you want it?" That seems like such an obvious question at first glance, doesn't it? I mean, who wouldn't want optimal health? Given the choice, who wouldn't want to be healthy - or even more than healthy, optimally healthy?
The reality is that we CAN choose optimal health, but some of us won't. It's not that we can't have it, but that we'll choose to not have it. We have all we need to create optimal health in our lives right now: we have the product (Medifast), which has a proven track record of almost 30 years, and we have the support we need to be successful. But some of us will choose to get in the way of our own success by allowing our past failures or our own concepts or fears to get in the way. The only thing standing between us and achieving optimal health is, well, us.
Some of us will choose the path of immediate gratification, sucumbing to numerous triggers along the way. We have good intentions, but vacations, celebrations, parties, stress, a busy schedule, etc. etc. get us off track and we make choices that won't keep us moving in the direction of optimal health.
One of the things I heard this weekend is that if we want something bad enough, we'll figure out what we need to do to get it. My question for you this morning is simple: What do you really want? Do you really want optimal health - living as long as you can as healthy as you can? If so, you have in your hands all of the tools that you need to get it. There really isn't anything to even figure out, because all of the figuring out has already been done! All we have to do is commit to eating every 3 hours and we will get to our goal, which is an important milestone on our optimal health journey. From there, we continue to add other healthy habits that keep us moving in the direction we want to go. It's pretty simple if we just take it one step at a time.
The good news this morning is that you don't have to commit to doing this for
a lifetime - you just have to commit to making healthy choices today. Can you do that? If so, maybe you can do that tomorrow, too, and then maybe even the day after that! But this morning, you don't have to worry about whether you can do this tomorrow or the day after that, you just have to commit to today.
Are you committed to pursuing optimal health in your life today? My hand is in the air - how about yours?
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