If you are undertaking a new challenge or lifestyle change, success can’t be measured by progress or failure on Day 1 or Day 2 because always remember habits take time to form. What is easy usually isn’t going to benefit you or give you the results you seek. This advice is relevant to many parts of life but let me focus on what happens on Day 2 of this new diet you are following.
Well, you survived Day 1 of your new diet plan. It didn’t go as smoothly as you wanted. Maybe because you didn’t cook enough or didn’t know how to make the right things or simply just didn’t enjoy the food. Do you give up? No. Twenty four hours later, you decide to undertake that challenge again, it is now Day 2. This time you attacked the problem differently. You tweaked your cooking style, logged your food in properly, portion controlled what you were eating, and Bam! you were able to implement this new diet into your life! Is this a measure of success? Yes and no. Yes, because you were able to figure out what works for you. No, because just doing something one day doesn’t make it so that you can repeat it the next day. You may have learned some useful tips on Day 2 but as the diet or lifestyle change goes on, you’ll have to figure out how to continue with it in different situations as well as not stress about this every day.
Think about this—you undertook this new lifestyle challenge to improve your health and wellness, right? Does adding stress on how to cook, what to eat, how many groceries should I buy, when should I go to the gym, how long should I go to the gym, etc. help you achieve your goal? No, of course not. Yes, those are all important questions but if you stress, any good you are doing is going out the window so to speak.
Make every day a successful day based on what you achieved and not what you didn’t achieve! Less stress and more results will be forthcoming!
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