Ep 2: Goals - How simplifying can help you reach your goals

(0:01) Let's talk about starting to shift your perspective on reaching your goals. How simplifying can help (0:08) you reach your goals. So I personally, I practice, how can I make this easier? I check that with (0:15) myself often, daily, because we all tend to work hard or feel like we need to or should or are (0:22) supposed to work harder.

And that's very super hardwired in me. And it's good. I mean, I actually (0:28) really like to work.

I like to work. And it's good. And it can also honestly be too much, right? (0:33) And with health goals, or wellness goals, we tend to get all restrictive and denying and we get on (0:41) some wagon and off some wagon.

And then they often aren't sustainable. And then you feel like you (0:47) failed. And then you go into the all or nothing or the effort mode or it snowballs, right? It doesn't (0:52) have to be that way.

With myself, and with the people I get to work with, we find what feels (1:00) easy for them in their lives. How to make the little steps easy, attainable new patterns (1:08) that are actually enjoyable, right? So checking in with yourself, how can I make this easier? (1:14) Where can I delegate, automate, eliminate, whether it's life or health or work? (1:22) Right? So there's a quote, somebody said to me, I hate meal prep and don't have time anyway. (1:28) Okay, I personally, I'm just raising my hand, this is a parentheses, I don't meal prep, but a lot of (1:32) people find benefit in meal prep, right? So this person said to me, I hate meal prep, and I don't (1:37) have time anyway.

All right. So the first question, how do you want to feel energized, right? What (1:43) would you like to eat at lunch? Sandwiches, lettuce wraps, okay. So weave it in, right? This is just (1:51) one little example of this, but weave it in, capitalize and take advantage of your time, (1:55) and when your energy is up.

So make two to three times more. Like if you're making lunch today, (2:04) make two to three times more for when your time and energy is lower, right? So that means you (2:10) have two to three like wraps, lettuce wraps or whatever set to start setting you up for success. (2:16) So you're not having to do it every day and you still can have success even when your energy is (2:21) not up and feeling like meal prepping, right? Checking in again, how can I make this easier? (2:29) Okay, what if you had a not cooking party at home, right? Not cooking party with your family, (2:36) with everybody making their own loaded sweet potato evening night, right? And so you could (2:42) put out something like, it doesn't even matter.

It could be anything you want. It could be (2:46) black beans and avocado and chopped up tomatoes and different cheeses and everybody has their (2:53) own sweet potato. Somebody can have a purple sweet potato and somebody can have a Japanese (2:56) sweet potato, right? Put it out kind of like a sweet potato, loaded sweet potato bar, (3:00) and the more simple you make it, the more apt to do it again you will be, right? (3:07) One shift, little small shift.

So something you can play with at work or working at home, (3:15) drink one extra, add one full bottle of water every day and you can substitute, you know, (3:23) water for taking the steps one extra time a day or parking your car far away and walking (3:28) into work, right? Let's use water as an example. Drink one extra, one full bottle of water a day. (3:34) That's it.

Simple. Simple will help you hit your goal, a goal, and a goal can progress, right? (3:43) Just hit one more bottle of water today and when you do, then you celebrate. You're like, (3:48) reached my goal, woohoo, right? Set the goal for tomorrow, a goal, make it easy, (3:54) set yourself up for success with like love letters on your bag, like before you head to work, you've (4:00) got this little note on the bag that says, hey, water first, right? Or stick something on your (4:05) computer screen that says water and maybe you'll get in one and a half, right? That's a huge win (4:10) because that's 150% more water than you had two and a half days ago, right? Or whatever.

 (4:15) Give yourself grace and simplify how you create a real habit, a non-negotiable, a thing that you just (4:22) do. You just do it. There's no event, nothing, there's no production, no colored markers or (4:27) flow chart, unless that's sustainable and fun for you, right? Just a love letter or two and filling (4:35) one bottle of water and because it's all connected, you'll start finding and feeling results by simply (4:41) drinking that one bottle of water.

Your system, your mental clarity, your mood, your productivity, (4:47) how you respond, your relationships, shit shifts. The person I listen to in the morning, (4:54) he always says shift happens. You can't make this shift up, right? Somebody said to me, (5:00) he texted me, he's like, I've almost forgotten how much water weight we hold on to (5:05) because he's been drinking more water intentionally and he's been walking (5:09) and then the bloat starts coming off, right? That's life.

All of that is just life. It's woven (5:15) and it's all connected. His intuition to feel better and move more was a great why.

He wants (5:23) to feel better. He wants to move more. That particularly was for his honeymoon, but it (5:27) doesn't have to be for a, again, a big production or anything.

You just want to feel better and move (5:31) more, feel better and move more. Drink that one extra bottle of water and then maybe you do that (5:37) for a week or two and that becomes kind of just what you do. No production, no grandiose anything.

 (5:42) Then you start, you know, parking further away and walking a little bit more (5:47) and all of a sudden by attrition, right? Simply choosing an action that's attainable (5:53) beyond the honeymoon or beyond whatever, right? You're worth it. It starts becoming just what you (5:58) do. Somebody else shared that she likes to read before bed.

It has been on her phone or her (6:04) laptop and she's noticed she's waking up groggy even with no alcohol, right? So she was like, (6:11) okay, I'm going to play with this with my daughter and we're going to shift to no screens over the (6:16) weekend. They're going to use paper books when they go to bed and it, I mean, I could talk about (6:21) this for days, but it is remarkable. These teeny simplifying shifts can really move your needle.

 (6:30) They can make a noticeable difference and they also snowball positively into every other aspect (6:37) of your life, right? I could talk for days about varying ways to simplify and to create habits (6:43) that feel great and that can take you to your goals, towards your goals and beyond your goals. (6:50) So anyway, thank you for being with me. Can't wait to keep talking about goals.