1 Easy Tip to Improve Your Health (yes, only one!)

There are many articles with tips to improve your health, in just 10 minutes I Googled the following 102 tips and another 5,290,000 results are waiting for me.

16 tips

7 tips

21 tips

20 tips

12 tips

16 tips

10 tips

So why do you need another tip?

Two kinds of tips

Well, let’s take a closer look at those tips. Many of them overlap and most have two things in common;

**1. The do MORE group**

Drink more water

Drink more tea

Eat more vegetables

Eat more wholegrain

Eat more fibre

Eat more probiotics

Study nutrition facts

Chew more

Consume more oily fish

Walk more

Sleep more

Laugh more

Squat to poo more

Go outside more

Get more vitamin D

Complement your spouse more often

Be more grateful

Be more positive

Eat more varied food

Hug more

**2. The do LESS group**

Eat less

Consume fewer calories

Stop drinking your calories

Eat less fast food

Eat less sugar

Eat less fat

Eat less red meat

Drink less soda

Drink less alcohol

Reduce your salt

Avoid skipping breakfast

Now, whilst tips make interesting reading, why don’t they work?

I mean if it were that simple, we would all read them, do them and all have excellent health. Yet this is not the case. Why not? What’s happening?

The problem is not people lack knowledge (there is a wealth of that on the Internet), the problem is in implementation. We are not following through.

Why not?

How to Follow Through

Some people wrongly conclude that they just lack the will-power. They even continually tell themselves so,

‘I’m rubbish at focusing’

‘I have no self-discipline’

This is not necessarily true, as research shows. Will-power is not innate nor really a skill, but more like a muscle, as you use it it gets tired and depleted, but also it can be developed. So, we don’t necessarily lack will-power; we all have it, we just need make sure we haven’t depleted it when we need it most.

No, what is really stopping us from following through is…

1. Believing – we don’t really believe the tips we read

2. Deciding – we don’t make a decision to act

3. Prioritising – we may believe, we may decide, but we don’t prioritise it. Until we do, it’ll never happen.

4. Taking on too much – we may do all 3 above, but then we decide to do too much.

So to improve our health, as well as finding good information (like for example the 12 tips article above), we need to believe it, decide, prioritise, then choose one tip to focus on.

Believing

You believe something when you are confident it’s true. Such confidence either comes from someone you trust (who recommends something) or from time you invest in learning something, so you know enough to say, ‘this is likely true’ or ‘this is a good source of information’.

Deciding

Deciding is so deceptively simple that people usually forget to do it. It only takes a second but unleashes great power and energy. Successful people are quick to decide, and slow to reverse their decision. You must decide to act.

Prioritising

Prioritising is a commonly disguised truth. Many people don’t take action and then say,

‘Something else came up at work’

‘I’ve had no time to do it, it’s been a busy week’.

That’s all nonsense. You did the other things, you chose to dedicate your time to those things, instead of others. It’s just a question of priorities and choices you have made. Once you are aware of the priorities you are making, then you can change them.

Believing, deciding and prioritising are all preparation steps, and important ones.

The One Tip

To make improving your health a reality there is really just one easy tip you need to follow;

Focus on one tip

Focus on one thing to change or start doing, and just do it.

Yes, do the preparation (believe, decide and prioritise), then finally focus. Don’t get distracted, don’t take on too much, get focused on changing just one thing.

That focus will get you outstanding results.

There are many articles with tips to improve your health, in just 10 minutes I Googled the following 102 tips and another 5,290,000 results are waiting for me.

So why do you need another tip?

Two kinds of tips

Well, let’s take a closer look at those tips. Many of them overlap and most have two things in common;

1. The do MORE group

Drink more water

Drink more tea

Eat more vegetables

Eat more wholegrain

Eat more fibre

Eat more probiotics

Study nutrition facts

Chew more

Consume more oily fish

Walk more

Sleep more

Laugh more

Squat to poo more

Go outside more

Get more vitamin D

Complement your spouse more often

Be more grateful

Be more positive

Eat more varied food

Hug more

2. The do LESS group

Eat less

Consume fewer calories

Stop drinking your calories

Eat less fast food

Eat less sugar

Eat less fat

Eat less red meat

Drink less soda

Drink less alcohol

Reduce your salt

Avoid skipping breakfast

Now, whilst tips make interesting reading, why don’t they work?

I mean if it were that simple, we would all read them, do them and all have excellent health. Yet this is not the case. Why not? What’s happening?

The problem is not people lack knowledge (there is a wealth of that on the Internet), the problem is in implementation. We are not following through.

Why not?

How to Follow Through

Some people wrongly conclude that they just lack the will-power. They even continually tell themselves so,

‘I’m rubbish at focusing’

‘I have no self-discipline’

No, what is really stopping us from following through is…

1. Believing – we don’t really believe the tips we read

2. Deciding – we don’t make a decision to act

3. Prioritising – we may believe, we may decide, but we don’t prioritise it. Until we do, it’ll never happen.

4. Taking on too much – we may do all 3 above, but then we decide to do too much.

So to improve our health, as well as finding good information (like for example the 12 tips article above), we need to believe it, decide, prioritise, then choose one tip to focus on.

Believing

You believe something when you are confident it’s true. Such confidence either comes from someone you trust (who recommends something) or from time you invest in learning something, so you know enough to say, ‘this is likely true’ or ‘this is a good source of information’.

Deciding

Deciding is so deceptively simple that people usually forget to do it. It only takes a second but unleashes great power and energy. Successful people are quick to decide, and slow to reverse their decision. You must decide to act.

Prioritising

Prioritising is a commonly disguised truth. Many people don’t take action and then say,

‘Something else came up at work’

‘I’ve had no time to do it, it’s been a busy week’.

That’s all nonsense. You did the other things, you chose to dedicate your time to those things, instead of others. It’s just a question of priorities and choices you have made. Once you are aware of the priorities you are making, then you can change them.

Believing, deciding and prioritising are all preparation steps, and important ones.

The One Tip

To make improving your health a reality there is really just one easy tip you need to follow;

Focus on one tip

Focus on one thing to change or start doing, and just do it.

Yes, do the preparation (believe, decide and prioritise), then finally focus. Don’t get distracted, don’t take on too much, get focused on changing just one thing.

That focus will get you outstanding results.

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**1. The do MORE group**

**2. The do LESS group**