Ok yes, I said Christmas, and Halloween isn’t here yet, but I was on a call yesterday and someone said it was 86 days left until Christmas, just about the right amount of time it takes to change a habit. For the past 12 weeks, I have been providing a variety of different suggestions or recommendations for things you can do to focus on the health of your family.
Some of you have shared some successes. Kudos to you! But how many of you have thought to yourself, I really like that idea and I want to make some changes, but there is always some excuse that gets in the way of taking action. I don’t have the time to make that recipe, I don’t want to pay for organic products, I don’t want to spend additional money on natural supplements. My kids are fussy eaters. How can cleaning products really impact my kids allergies? Some of you may still be skeptical wondering, is this for real? Will these suggestions and products really make a difference in my family’s health?
I have seen many examples of where changing one small thing, made a huge difference. The only way to know is to give it a shot. If you see an area of your family’s health that could use a little TLC, I encourage you to take the challenge and act now. Lets face it, when it comes to our health, many of us don’t put it on the top of the priority list. I encourage you to pick one small thing that you can commit to do regarding your family’s health.
Here are a some suggestions to jog your memory of where you might begin:
– Read food labels
– Eliminate products with “the bad stuff” (start with just one item at a time)
– i.e. Take a look at your cereal and notice what’s in it
– Remove “processed foods and those with preservatives”
– i.e. Take a look at the meat products you buy (Try Boar’s Head deli products)
– Add more raw and organic foods
– i.e. Commit to only buying Organic Strawberries or Cage Free Eggs
– Remove toxic household cleaners from your home and use natural products
– Start adding natural supplements to your diet
– Drink more water
– Start creating and making meals plans ahead of time
– Plan ahead special healthy after school snacks or have a healthy snack to choose from
– Try a new recipe
– i..e Try one new recipe each week
– i..e Learn to make a homemade soup now the weather is starting to cool off
– Or add your own other idea or tailor one of these as there are many more…
Now I want you to do the following: After you identify the thing you want to work on
– Write it down
– Tell someone about it (etiher a friend, or in this blog)
– Get support from others to help you achieve this goal
Noone said change was easy, in fact the reason why its so hard for us to make even small changes in our health is because if it were easy we would be doing it already. When it comes to our health it is slow small changes that make a differances and studies show that changing a habit takes time and effort. I encourage you to jump on the bandwagon in our Family Health Challenge and share what one powerful step you are going to take to invest in the health of your family. Think of it as an early christmas present to yourself and by the time x-mas rolls around, it will have already become a habit.