If ya read the 5 Pillars of Health emails, get ready for the part where this all gets distilled into a list of things you can do to improve your health each and every day.
This list is not exhaustive.
You don’t need to do everything on the list every day to get healthier.
What this list is an answer to “if I had to do one thing every day to improve X pillar, what would be the most effective action?”
You don’t even need to give it your best ever effort. Just walking into the opportunity of doing one of these actions and giving 50% effort will move you forward.
So without further ado, here is your 10 actions:
1) Do something that has you move through full ranges of motion in your shoulders and hips. (The Thruster is a simple solution to this).
2) Do something that gets you out of breath. (Do as many unbroken reps as possible of any movement ya choose, it’ll work on this).
3) Move weight outside of your body (Pick stuff up and put it down).
4) Acknowledge a trigger in real time. (A trigger is something that sends you into fight or flight immediately. The first step is to realize it happened. Once you do that, you can work towards building resilience).
5) Eat food that you can recognize the original form of. (Eat Vegetables.)
6) No Caffeine in the afternoon (you are messing up your sleep with this).
7) Sleep 8-9 Hours (Put screens 5 minutes away earlier than usual or go to bed 5 minutes earlier and grow from there).
8) Feel someone else’s pain (I mean empathy here. Actively listening is one of the kindest things you can do for someone and making someone feel not alone goes along way towards making a better community).
9) Ask a question when you feel you’ve made a judgement (try to change “That person doesn’t talk to me because they are an introvert” to “why are you quiet today?”)
10) Note a win (look for something positive, no matter how small or trivial it may seem).
Just like we are cool with Netflix taking $15/mo here and X newspaper taking $3/mo there, become cool with these micro-transactions with yourself.
Each of these tasks are grounded in helping you with the 5 pillars and are rooted in the science of human health.
Pick one from the list each day, and do it. Then when you get used to doing 1, let’s add another. Some days you’ll feel like you can do all 10 and others 1 will be a struggle.
The point is, to keep striving towards being our happiest and healthiest self.
Have a wonderful day y’all, and see you in the gym,
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