Can’t Keep Your Health A Priority? Stop Struggling And Do This Now.
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Identify The Barriers
Work, school, errands, kids, family events, cooking…Barriers stand between you and setting your health as a priority. These are real obstacles that physically or mentally stop you, and these barriers won’t go away on their own.
They must be addressed, but even before that you must identify the barriers.
Here is my system for identifying barriers. It’s done by working backwards.
- Write down your goal
- Ask what is required of you to reach that goal
- List the possible obstacles for meeting those requirements
Overcoming Barriers
Now that you’ve identified the barriers, you can create a plan to overcome them.
Barrier Rule #1 ~ Don’t limit yourself to overcoming barriers alone. You can request the participation or approval of others like a spouse, boss, or friend. If you need help, ask. The worst anyone can tell you is no…
Barrier Rule #2 ~ Respect the barriers and find a solution that works every time. Don’t neglect barriers as so small or insignificant that your willpower will overcome them. The barriers you discredit will cause you to stumble.
Barrier Rule #3 ~ Believe there is a solution and you only need to find it. If you think you can, you’re right. If you think you can’t, you’re still right.
Prioritizing Your Health
Once you’ve created solutions to overcome your barriers, prioritizing your health is possible. The heavy lifting is out of the way, and those roadblocks will no longer overshadow your goals.
At this point you have reached the fun part of pursuing your goals with confidence. With every milestone you become more encouraged, more enthusiastic about your accomplishments. You become unstoppable in your pursuit.
It’s an indescribable feeling that most will never reach in their health journey.
Why?
Because they never overcame the obstacles that stood in the way. Instead, they tried to skip steps and get straight to the results.
Whether it is your health, relationships, education or business, there is a process to success. Skip the process and you’ll be missing a firm foundation to stand on. Eventually, that weak foundation will cause it all to crumble to the ground.
For years I’ve watched people try to compromise and find ways around the barriers, without addressing them.
These individuals have NEVER been successful long term.
But this doesn’t have to be you, shackled to your barriers.
Just follow the three step process:
- Identify them
- Overcome them
- Then prioritize your health
