Today's theme #MondayMotivation, and on my mind is some advice from entrepreneur Alex Hormozi that he shared in relation to business, however ABSOLUTELY it relates to health. Alex states to succeed you need: 🦁 The COURAGE to start (his word was balls, I like courage) 🧠 The BRAINS to learn. 💚 The HEART to never give up. To elaborate as I see it... 1. In health, you need the Courage to really commit. Wishy, washy, half-hearted won't cut it. It will likely ALSO eat away at your belief in yourself when you don't come through for you. Bonus points? Sharing your commitment with the people closest to you "should" elicit their support / understanding and also, it will help hold you accountable to more than simply yourself. 2. The Brains means recognising when something isn't working and adjusting accordingly. I absolutely DO NOT mean bouncing from one approach to the next. I do mean learning from mistakes or times you're set yourself up to lose the discipline game. 3. If you are taking the right actions, consistently you WILL see results. However, sadly they likely won't be in the fast timeframe you would most love. This means you must have the Heart to stick with it, as long as it takes and ALSO, to consciously focus on the good - the joy of the journey - the small wins, so that you can stick with it AS LONG AS IT TAKES! 😀 What small or big (!) wins do you have to share?

What is your ONE most important daily action for 30 Days this October Plant Positive Jumpstart? Considerations for your daily action: - This is about skill acquisition as well as results. What skills are worth building? - What is something that will have a compounding positive impact on your life? - What is the upside, if it goes really well? - What is the downside, is there even one - besides a little time?

We're back with the theme of #TuesdayTucker! Apparently "Dense Bean Salads" are a thing right now and I am here for it! Have you heard of them? Nisha from Cookingforpeanuts.com shares a fabulous example here: https://cookingforpeanuts.com/dense-bean-salad/ With Lentils, Kidney beans and Black beans they certainly pack a protein and fibre punch. This is the type of meal that gets even better with a few days in the fridge. I shared this Arabian Lentil Salad version last Jumpstart. These salads work brilliantly sitting abundantly on top of a chunky cauli or broccoli steak. Or finished with plentiful chunks of charred cruciferous veg! Do you have a dense bean salad to recommend?

To know how to make the most of the next 30 Days, check out this post: I'm a little later for my International friends today. 😆 Our theme, #ThursdayTraining Prepping for a fitness podcast interview next week I'm considering what I've changed my mind over a couple of decades in the industry. Most of my huge turnarounds have been in relation to food. However to fit with today's theme: I think it's important to find a form of movement you LOVE or at least "could love" when you get better at it. To achieve the level of consistency that brings results, there really needs to be love - or a decent level of enjoyment - because your discipline alone will not drag you through long term. ⚡Here's the helpful catch!⚡ I do believe you can "build the love" by focusing on the results... especially the immediate (non body composition) results... ✅ So perhaps the fact that exercise gives you energy and helps you work more efficiently. ✅ While also aiding sleep. ✅ Absolutely you can love that, "I did well!" feeling when you finish a workout. Even if it's a 5 minute workout. Everything counts - especially so far as your reputation with yourself! Today for me has just been a short river walk after weights and 2 hours of carrying 16 kilo boxes of Plant Positive Journals from one shed to the next yesterday. Lucky I'm #plantstrong ! What's your movement today?

To know how to make the most of the next 30 Days, check out this post: Again, if you missed yesterdays post, my intention? For as many of us as possible to create a powerful habit - aligned with a more Plant Positive lifestyle - that we will continue beyond this 30 Days, and build other impactful habits around. Today's theme #WednesdayWeighIn and.... Overwhelm is lazy thinking! For those of us that set pretty big intentions for the next 30 days maybe overwhelm has reared it's ugly head already? I used to believe, if I could only manage my time better, then I could “get it all done.” I also did overwhelm well. It is really quite easy to excel at overwhelm. You simply think of everything you need to get done with a special focus on what you can not control. Add in a dash of starting this task, then switching to that, and now dwelling on ALL those you are yet to start, and it is amazing how busy you can feel. How overwhelmed – without actually achieving anything! Stated this way, it is easy to see that overwhelm is really just lazy thinking and frenzied yet indiscriminate action taking. The alternative is to: ✅ First - Admit you will never get it all done. ✅ Second - Have the focus and clarity of thought to choose what is most important – to Prioritise – and the discipline to act according to those priorities. Now, here's the third part which I am focusing on right now... ✅ To be really ON / focused / productive / disciplined, you also must schedule really OFF time. Schedule "unscheduled / free time"! ✅ - That might look like one afternoon (or a couple of hours) a week with NO commitments. - It might be a precious evening routine of only stuff you love (reading, journalling, even - I'll admit it, watching "Those who kill" on sbsondemand!) and NO cheeky little email or social media checking in bed. - It might be an afternoon walk in nature, even 10 minutes counts.