Use the Two “B’s” and Get More Done

How can you take action to improve your health while balancing competing priorities?

Use the two “B’s:” “break it down” and “boundaries.” 

Let’s take a closer look at how these work together.

Break It Down

Sometimes “life” happens, and you’re not able to stick to your original plans. That’s okay. In fact, it’s normal and expected. 

Instead of giving up completely, take what you’d normally do and break it down to the smallest possible action that’ll help you make progress.

Here’s some examples: 

• Short on time? Break your workout down from 3 sets to 2 
• Meeting ran over into your break time? 10 minutes of meditation becomes 5 minutes.
• Woke up later than anticipated? 30 minutes of yoga becomes 15 minutes.

Keep breaking your desired action down until you feel 9 or 10 out of 10 confident you can accomplish it. Then, do it and celebrate making progress!

Now, let’s look at how to help make this happen with boundaries.

Boundaries

Setting and maintaining boundaries is an important part of your health.  

If other people or commitments are constantly overriding your time to exercise, de-stress, and eat well, it not only negatively impacts your health, but it also leaves you feeling like your priorities and values don’t matter. That’s not good.

Given that, it’s worth exploring setting boundaries to protect what’s important to you. 

For example, maybe you feel guilty for taking time to exercise because you don’t spend that time with family, partners, or friends. 

But what if you reframed things?

Instead of exercise taking time away from loved ones, what if you viewed it as ENHANCING the quality of the time you spend with loved ones?

Exercise improves our physical and mental health, allowing us to show up with more energy, presence, and capability for those we love.

When seen this way, it’s hard not to prioritize setting boundaries to make time for weekly workouts.

To get started, try having a conversation with friends, family, or loved ones about why it’s important to you and how it helps everyone involved.

You can do this with other areas of your life, too: your hobbies, social life, alone time, personal development, etc.

When you pair healthy boundaries with breaking actions down until you’re 9 or 10 out of 10 confident you can do them, you’re on your way to a healthier, more balanced and empowered life.

If you want to start improving your health, gain clarity on what matters, and take consistent action on what’s important to you, consider joining my coaching program. In it, we’ll design a custom plan that works with your life – not against it – so you can finally see results.

Love you lots.

❤ Ian