personal development

It’s already February, and if you celebrated New Year’s Day with a resolution to get healthier in 2021, I have a question: have you stayed on track with your fitness goals?

One of the best outcomes of creating a balanced life is enjoying the basics: adequate sleep, nutritious food, time for exercise—plus bandwidth to handle longstanding conditions that cause pain, embarrassment or anxiety.

We all have the same number of hours in a day. But have you ever catalogued how you spend your time?

Scrolling through Pinterest, checking social media, or mindlessly watching news updates and talk shows— these are the time bandits that will steal your future. Not only that, but overloading your schedule with deadlines and meetings . . . overcommitting to your local hobby club . . . extra errands on the school run . . . that’s a recipe for overwhelm.

Studies prove that writing down specific goals will help some people achieve significantly more in their lives than people who never set goals in the first place.

And if you’ve been following my posts over the past month, you know there’s another important step: taking action.

One trick I’ve learned from human-potential experts Dr. Dave Braun and Dr. Troy Amdahl – authors of Oola: Find Balance in an Unbalanced World –

OK, here’s a game-changer: did you know that people who focus on their goals are more likely to achieve them? You’ve probably heard that saying . . .

You get what you focus on.

So if you think that your life is overwhelming and you don’t have time to spend on achieving your dreams, consider how far you would go if: (1) you chose one big, audacious goal that would uplevel your life in every way, and (2) you took just one step a day towards achieving it.