Welcome to my top 30 for 30! During the month of October, I am counting down the top 30 mindset and practical strategies that have made all the difference in my success for 30 years as a raw food plant-based enthusiast to help you on your path!
Day 2: Yesterday we considered the importance of establishing a strong “why” for making a change, whether that is dietary or some other type of shift. From my experience, really getting clear on the reason or reasons for making a change has been both the strongest initially motivating factor AND the inspiration to continue when challenges arise. If you’ve made changes in your life that you’ve maintained, you know what those challenges can look like. The greatest challenges that I faced when I started adding more fruits and vegetables to my diet included: eating enough, keeping my kitchen stocked with healthy food, and the fulfilling the deep desire to expand my knowledge of nutrition and health. So, in order to address these challenges, I set some goals.
My biggest goal was to overcome the fatigue I was experiencing, which was also the source of my “why”. The rest of my goals supported this larger goal and addressed my challenges directly. The first being, eating enough to feel satiated. I noticed pretty quickly that I had to shift my thinking about portion sizes, which increased appropriately after this realization. Because of this, I found that I had to go shopping more often to keep my kitchen stocked with healthy food. Along with these, and other shifts in ways of thinking and being, I had this insatiable desire to learn more about everything health related, so I found myself reading and researching voraciously which led to more formal education.
I’ll be addressing everything I’ve talked about here and much more over the next few weeks as part of my top 30 countdown, so what I’ve covered here today is just an introduction. The unifying point here is that addressing and finding solutions to these challenges became goals for me. And they all supported the achievement of my initial “why”.
So, while you were reading this did you think of any goals, either official or unofficial, that you have considered for creating positive change that supports your health or otherwise?