Simplify it all. Once you begin to remove layers and see the simplicity of it all, you will begin to see most excuses, challenges, hurdles, and barriers dissolve and lose power over you. "I'll start Monday or next month" - this is a common game of mental gymnastics. Let's break it down: - the week days, months etc are a completely made up categorization of time. We made the concept of a Monday the start of the week, but your body has absolutely no idea its a Monday or a Wednesday. Your body only knows the rhythms of day/night, monthly cycles, and the cycles of cellular healing and regeneration. "I don't have a gym membership" (its too expensive, or too far, I don't have time before or after work to go, etc). Let's break it down: - To start - all you need is you. Allocating a location to movement may mentally help us compartmentalize our routines and in turn create a pattern aka discipline.. however moving your body doest require being in the physical location of a gym. - Only associating movement with a gym greatly limits how it can show up in your life and the relationship you have with it. Love to dance? Put some movement on in the living room and be free. Love to listen to a podcast - put it on and go for a walk. Moving your body is something you can do where and when you want to, but it needs to show up in your life and it can in the simplest of ways. "I had a long day/long week" I deserve a little treat". Let's break it down: - Food and eating can feel so complicated and overwhelming - when you need to understand the simplicity of the mental relationship with food and the role of food for our body and overall health/well-being - A treat once and a while is fine - but remember you define what a treat is. It isn't determined for you and you do not have subscribe to a treat being something processed or sugary, or an alcoholic drink. You can redefine that at any point and decide that what "society" defined as a treat isn't how you do. - Associating a treat to a hard day or a long day is fine, but if you consistently create a reward loop with something that is a habit you are trying to break (ie: eating unhealthy) then you are really setting yourself up. - Pick a new reward, or a new narrative around the treat. Reward the long week with your feet up and watching a movie. Switch what you view as a treat to some healthy swaps for old habits - ie: make your own veggie chips in the air fryer versus reaching for the potato ships. Pick one challenge at a time. And break it down. Find the simplicity. Start there.