Sharpen your sword. The best investment that we can ever make is the investment in ourselves. You don’t need 100 self-help books, what you need is knowledge, action, and self-discipline.
One of the dimensions of our lives that we should continually enhance is the physical dimension comprised of exercise, nutrition, and healthy sleep. Let’s dive into the dual edged sword in nutrition.
No generation before has had more information about nutritional facts at their fingertips than today. YouTube has numerous quality podcasts covering latest findings. Simple to understand. In the same moment we are washed with consumerism, mainstream marketing focused on sales with no regard to nutritional facts. Depending on which side of the sword you are, the journeys in health span are a stark contrast.
Habits are mostly unconscious patterns in what we do. Habits largely express our character and determine our effectiveness. Steven Covey explains that to learn new habits we need knowledge, skill, and desire.
If I reflect on my journey in nutrition, I discovered the importance of knowledge in having effective habits and that my desire alone in good nutrition fell dismally short. I have intrinsic motivation that drives and gives me meaning in what I eat, but there was a lot I practised based on outdated nutritional facts.
I had the wrong map about nutrition in my head. I was conditioned by outdated guidance on nutrition. I had integrity to my outdated maps of nutrition. My positive attitude to nutrition got me in the wrong place faster because I had the wrong maps.
The point is that knowledge and skills are critical to learning effective habits because desire, motivation and passion alone do not help if you have the wrong maps.
There are mentors that will nudge you to better habits, making small alterations to your surroundings, like cutting out junk food by hiding sweets and placing healthy alternatives in front of you. My focus is on learning effective habits in all dimensions of life, and that is no quick fix.
Nutritional health is a function of choice. We can choose to cultivate healthy habits that contribute to our physical well being by taking responsibility for nutrition and make choices that support it.
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