Step 1 – Getting Started

First you have to understand your motivation to change. Does your motivation come from your doctor, a loved one, or from family pressures? Or does it come from an expectation of the benefits that you’ll get from eating a healthy diet and getting the proper amount and type of exercise?

Whatever your motivations and incentives, I recommend you write them down. Get a notebook or journal, and write down all of the motivations
- both positive and negative – that are driving you in this direction.

Then type up a list of the positive motivations – The “I wants,” not the “I don’t's.” Print several copies of these positive motivations and put them where you’ll see them regularly, and read them repeatedly. The bedroom mirror, the bathroom wall, the refrigerator door and your desk at work are all good places.

Next issue we’ll discuss expanding upon the wellness journal you started today.

Staying Raw Inspired,
Because It’s Changed my Life,