When it comes to setting and striving towards any goal, whether it be health, financial, relationship or career, it’s important to avoid getting stuck in the “all or nothing” mind trap.

Repeat after me…

Some-thing is better than no-thing.

Explore the example of a 10-pound weight loss.

After watching endless Instagram influencers and YouTube stars, you’re convinced the best path to success is as follows:

• 5 am wake-up call
• Daily workouts (plus a long run on Saturday and yoga on Sunday)
• 2 hours of weekly meal prep
• Weighing and measuring every meal
• 4 liters of water
• Meditation and gratitude journaling before bed

In rare cases, this routine may be kept up…for a while anyway.

But ultimately this degree of behaviour is generally short-lived and the ensuing failure (for the #475^th time) could finally be enough to lead to submission for good.

In cases where it’s not a total disaster, at a minimum it adds to skepticism and eventual cynicism about the likelihood of finally improving one’s life.

On the flip side, we may believe that given our past lack of success, it’s not even worth starting.

In the end, we find ourselves fully embracing the master plan or not wanting to start because we see our efforts as eventually fruitless.

There is a time and place for these intense goal-setting sprints.  Hyper-focused attention and dedication can help propel you through a “sticking point”.

Use them in small doses with a specific goal, outcome, and plan.

However, the best outline for consistent improvement begins with transitioning your all or none mentality to a framework that will support long-term success.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

We all experience stress.

It’s inevitable.

It’s a part of life and part of being human.

While some of us may experience more stress than others, one thing is certain…

We can’t simply ignore those things that bring add stress to our daily lives.

The question is:

How can we increase our body’s ability to handle stress, and make stress actually work for us and not against us?

Here are 4 ways you can help adapt to stress and reduce its detrimental effects on your body.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

We all want to be better, healthier versions of ourselves – whether that’s losing weight, getting stronger, or being a better parent, spouse, or friend.

How do we get there?

We set goals.

We take action.

We attain a result.

Sometimes it works, but most of the time when it doesn’t.

Don’t believe me?

How often have you set a goal only to have it fade away after a few short weeks?

Think back to that resolution you set for yourself at the beginning of the year.

Be honest… how’s that going?

It’s likely that you’re doing the same things that you were doing at this same time one year ago.

You’re also probably stuck with the same results or worse.

The fact is change is hard.

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.

How often do your resolutions become reality?

If you’re like most, it’s about 8% of the time, and that’s not even terrible considering less than 25% of people stay committed to the end of the first 30 days!

This year, ditch the resolutions and do this instead.

The primary reason traditional resolutions rarely work is because they focus too much attention on the end result as opposed to the process it’ll take to get there.

“I’m going to lose 10 pounds this year!”

It’s a worthy goal, but that declaration has nothing to do with the success path or day-to-day commitments required to make it real.

Follow this process to improve your life in 2021 and beyond.

ASSESS YOUR LONG-TERM GOALS  

It’s not as though goal setting has no value, only that revisiting your long-term vision is step one, not the only step.

Dream big as most tend to underestimate what they can accomplish in a lifetime and overestimate what they can do today.

ASSIGN A DOLLAR AMOUNT

Living in reality is a fantastic way to create the future you’re dreaming of.

Just about everything has a monetary cost, so it only makes sense to assign that cost.

“What will the mortgage be on our dream house?”

“How much do we save for life experiences?”

“How much will we need to save for the kids education?”

Once you have a monthly expense total for your Dream Life, you can reverse engineer the revenue you’ll need to earn and what you’ll need to accomplish to earn it.

Aside from a real sense of peace that comes with knowing your numbers, it also

gives a deeper purpose to the day-to-day actions that you’ll be completing.

PLAN LIKE A CORPORATION

Split your year into 4 quarters and approach your life planning no differently than Amazon or Apple would schedule there’s.

Success leaves clues, and it only makes sense we follow the trail and follow suit.

Every 90 days, host a detailed strategy session for yourself or your family during which you’ll review your successes and failures, your proximity to the future goals, and what changes, if any, need to be made.

CREATE COMMITMENTS

Once you’ve made it this far, you can easily replace your annual resolutions with commitments to each and any action steps required to move you closer to your future dreams.

Whether that dream is retirement or losing 10 pounds, it’s all the exact same process.

Set your daily schedule to support keeping your commitments and encourage those around you to help keep you accountable to them.

When you apply this process over time, the results become exponential.

You’re not only able to complete one commitment and replace it with another but instead; many prior commitments simply become your new habits.

Those well thought out habits push the unconscious, and often detrimental routines aside, leaving you with progressively more and more strong, life-enhancing automatic actions to guide your success.

Now, if given two choices, which do you think is better?

A New Year’s resolution or an entirely new you… every year!

Dr. Steven Gall has been offering exceptional chiropractic care to infants, children and adults for over 25 years. He has spent his life learning, and improving his knowledge, skills and ability to provide his care. As a public speaker and health coach he strives to assist people in seeing and attaining a life of extraordinary health. Contact the office to join others who have started the same journey.