001 // Step 1 to a Healthy Life
001 // THE FIRST STEP TO HEALTH
"How do I get fit and live healthy?"
Cut carbs? Do cross-fit and intermittent fast? More vegetables?
Most of the time, these one-off approaches don't work or last.
They don't work because change doesn't come from knowing "what" to do. You probably know you should eat more vegetables and fewer chips and have an exercise routine.
What's lacking is a foundation; a vision for yourself and your life where you value yourself enough to show up in your day alive and well.
Build the foundation and the behaviors will follow.
The rest of this email tells you the best way I've found to build this foundation:
MORNING BY DESIGN
Design the first hour of your day in a way that gives you energy and purpose. If you don't have an hour, choose the amount of time you do have. Your body wakes up in a parasympathetic state (relaxed, open, calm, receptive). In this place, you are primed to be in the driver seat of your day -- you decide your values and priorities. This can feel hard or foreign to us because we have been largely conditioned to live in reaction mode (sympathetic nervous system). We start the day by habitually reaching for our phones, forfeiting our energy, attention, and agenda to outside voices.
It's easy to be a passive consumer; filled with outside messages all the while, unaware of your own vision. It takes ownership to understand your values and create a vision for your day... and your life.
Protect the start to your day: design it.
PROACTIVE > reactive
First Hour [MORNING BY DESIGN] is the concept I created to shift my operating system from reactive to proactive. This simple but conscious mindset change produces a root system of health, where healthy behaviors follow as a natural byproduct. You are no longer scraping by to keep weight off -- you are living out of a vision for your life where you are healthy and alive.
SELF-AWARENESS is a SUPERPOWER
Discover what gives you the best start to your day. With any health pursuit, self-awareness is a superpower. You don't need to get up at 4 am or run 5 miles because you read that's what billionaires do. Figure out what works for you. Value yourself enough to protect the mornings to build energy and purpose for your day.
Here are practicals to get you going:
- phone on airplane mode
- water: 12-16 oz (you wake up de-hydrated)
- light: go outside and get sun (this tells your body it's morning and helps you wake up)
- movement: 15-30 minutes of light movement (walk, jog, bike)
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to your body's wealth,
TOMMY
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