From Spark People for January 24th

“Do less. Bombarding yourself with too many goals can be stressful. The more items you focus on, the more each task suffers from a lack of priority, attention and accuracy. Whittle down your to-do list to focus on what is really important.”

And I can already hear you saying, ‘it’s all important” and yes it is; just not at once. When I first begin coaching a new client on weight loss, their tendency is to want to change everything they are doing – at once!

What makes me a good coach is I have been there and done everything each of my clients has and I know what works and what doesn’t on a long term basis. For example, a client may be drinking no water and set their first goal for 80 ounces a day. Our extra weight was not built in a day and neither was Rome. We will not lose all the weight we want, once we decide it is time.  It will take time to change our habits, one step at a time. I asked my client for one week to concentrate on drinking 8 ounces of water daily. When she said that did not seem like much, I shared it was 100% more than she was drinking right now.

We are on a journey to reach and MAINTAIN our ideal diet; not on a race to a diet finish line where we just go back to all of our old habits. Take it one step, one day, one pound or one ounce at a time.