Behavior #6: Correct missteps with your next action

Health

Jan 2

In your pursuit of health, you will eventually put a foot wrong — missing a workout, bingeing on death meat pizza, torpedoing a night of sleep while celebrating a friend’s birthday.

Your mission is to get back in line as fast as possible, to correct your misstep at the next possible opportunity: exercising the next morning, exclusively eating unprocessed and home cooked meals throughout the day, and sleeping a minimum of 7.5 hours the next night.

This is a process in two parts: rapid self-forgiveness combined with an immediate re-commitment to your healthy behaviors. Recognizing the power of habit, and the potential of the misstep to kick off a spiral of additional missteps, you intervene before negative habit loops are formed, cueing your healthy behaviors against a backdrop of compassion.

This creates a parade of redemption — your boundaries are restored, consistency is resumed, your environment is once more under your exclusive control, your transgression reduced to an inconsequential anecdote instead of a life-altering event.