We are Our Habits
10 Easy Steps Toward Energy, Clarity & Confidence
No person or circumstance can gift you or I peace, confidence, optimism, fitness, or self-efficacy. These attributes are the result of our choices and come from within. If we want things to be better, we have to act. If we want things to change, we have to change.
Responsibility and Positive Action Are Key
The way to change our lives for the better is two-fold. We can change our stories by:
- Taking responsibility; and
- Making substantive changes regardless of obstacles and critics.
Real change requires that we decide and act. Real change requires that we proceed like our lives depend on taking responsibility for ourselves and our positive growth. Start pursuing the compelling future you envision by making a few small, substantive changes. Innovation 1 was outlined in a previous post. Read about Innovation 1 HERE. We’ll address Innovation 2 below.
10 Innovations for Energy, Clarity & Confidence
Innovation 2: Drink cold water.
2. Each day, drink 16 to 20 ounces of cold water before consuming anything else. There’s no hurry or deadline. Take time and drink at your leisure, but consume no coffee, food, vitamins, or anything else until you’ve consumed 16oz of cold water. Medication is the exception — take medicine as and when needed.
Drink cold water is about shaping and owning your mood.
Drink cold water is also about taking action each day to shore up your physical health. Water is critical to healthy mental and physical performance. Making cold water your first point of consumption each day clears the mind, lifts mood, combats stiffness and inflammation, boosts metabolism, and rehydrates very major system of the body.
Innovation 1 is Greet the morning. For more information about the benefits of Innovation 1, click here.
Innovation 2 is Drink cold water.
Starting the day from a disposition of welcome and peace benefits our emotional health. Drinking cold water before consuming anything else lifts mood, mindset, and our physical selves.
Take a few moments each day for breath, gratitude, and treating your body and mind to a wonderful drink of water. Be grateful for all the good there is. Stand and sit tall, breath, greet the day to come, and drink up. With these small changes, we’re on our way to increased energy, clarity, and confidence.
