The best healthy habits have simple strategies

The best healthy habits have simple strategies.

Healthy eating, health and wellness, and a positive mindset, are the building blocks of healthy habits. For anyone with a smartphone, screen time always seems to conflict with real world activity. Furthermore, that is without including work related screen time. Some jobs double down on the amount of screen work a person has in a day. Between those two examples alone that leaves little time for activity. Or movement.

By now it’s obvious this is a health and wellness article. Furthermore, it’s purpose is not to advise or throw shade on sunshine. There will be an absence of dry abstract facts about the benefits of sunshine in this article. Instead, the focus will be on the benefits of avoiding prolonged exposure to inactivity. The sun works overtime distributing all that natural energy, especially in the summertime. It’s possible to get the benefits of sun exposure with small amounts of exposure.

In other words, all things in moderation. With this in mind, some of the best healthy habits begin in the realm of moderation. For example, walking. It is so common in everyday life it’s difficult to think of it as exercise. Until the walk is up a hill. Consistently, for ten minutes, without slowing. That is when the walk changes into exercise. (If it’s in the sunshine, there’s a fifteen point bonus.) Even if there is no hill, a ten minute walk is a known health benefit. Particularly if compared to sitting in one place for hours at a time.

The Best Healthy Habits

Turning that walk into a habit is the next best step. Why? Because it’s easy to do something again after doing it the first time. No need for examples there. That logic is a known, known, so to speak. Furthermore, by that logic, once the walk happens a second time, it’s on the way to becoming a habit.

Come to think of it, forming a habit isn’t that difficult. It’s just easier if the habit is fun to begin with. Like sweeping the sidewalk. Or sweeping the driveway. (Others come to mind, but cigarettes are bad.) Even raking leaves can become a habit, if done consistently. If a broom is the only tool available for cleaning an outdoor sidewalk, or a driveway, it becomes one of the best healthy habits. Developed from necessity. Which is also the mother of invention. Like the bic lighter.

The saying is an old proverb. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Its origin goes back as far as Plato. It’s also possible to apply the insight to many real world scenarios in this day and age. Therefore, developing healthy habits is as easy as using a simple strategy.

Simple Strategies

This is where the call to action takes place. Take that walk every day. At the same time everyday. If not everyday then every other day. Make a plan. Then do it. And start small. Marathon athletes don’t start training for the 25 mile run with 20 mile practice sessions. There may be some who do. However, most athletes build up to that level. And it begins with small steps. Then it’s about building on the small steps until they become healthy habits.

Sometimes a helping hand can be the catalyst that cultivates healthy habits. For example, professional coaching. Especially if that coaching is from a world class life coach. The previous link, and this link here, go straight to the free course available on Hillseeker.com. Check out the insights and experience of World Class Life coach Jeff Grant, and his free course today.

And another of the quickest ways to form healthy habits, is using simple strategies to build the habit. A refreshing walk in the late afternoon, becomes familiar when it happens consistently. Sweeping the sidewalk becomes a matter of craft and purpose when it happens everyday. The consistent action, makes building the habit into an easy process. It’s a dangerous power in the wrong hands. However, it is one of the best ways to begin developing healthy habits. The story of the Twin Gardens continues next. Thanks for reading.

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