Are you willing to change?

COACHABILITY
"My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn."
- Michael Jordan

Coachability is the willingness to be corrected and to act on that correction. When we are coachable, we are prepared to be wrong. We can withstand a high degree of candor.

Why is this important? To become healthy, and then to maintain good health, you have to be willing to adapt and change things depending on what your body and your life needs. You need to be willing to admit sometimes that the way you are currently doing something is no longer serving you, and it needs to be changed.

It is so much easier to be healthy and happy if you are able to seek out new knowledge, or people who have already achieved what you want and be willing to learn from them. Your journey to health doesn't have to occur alone.

But if you take the stubborn approach of "this is how I have always done things" or "health is all up to genetics anyway" then I can guarantee you that you won't live your life to your fullest capabilities.

And if you think that you're content with living a life of mediocrity, then I suggest you spend some time in a nursing home and ask the inhabitants what bothers them the most. I can guarantee that a large percentage of them will say regret! Regret for the following: not having taken care of themselves better; not having planned better; not saving more; not taking more risks; not laughing more; and worrying too much. I can also guarantee that every single one of them will tell you that they would prefer have lived a life where they were so healthy that they could be taking care of themselves up until their last few days on this Earth. 

No one wants to spend their years sick and unable to do the things they enjoy. Of course we have to age and slow down, but who said you can't still be mobile and walk 3 miles a day just because you're in your nineties. If that idea sounds crazy to you, then society has successfully sold you a lie.

In my first few years in practice I used to help a gentleman who was 96 years old and EASILY walked more than 20,000 steps every day. I no longer live and practice in Sydney so I don't know, but I would not be shocked if he is still going strong at the ripe old age of 106 because he took such great care of his health throughout his life. And that can be you! Just be willing to change your habits and perspectives, and seek out people who can help you achieve your health goals! Become more coachable!

It might be just me that feels this way, but regret is my biggest fear in this life. I don't want to get to 70 or 80 years of age and already feel rundown, ill, and not be able to turn back the clock and do anything about it.  Change your habits and health now before it's too late! If you don't know how, just start with one small step at a time, set a goal to change one habit in 30 days and then repeat. If you do that all year then you will have added or removed 12 things that will make you healthier and enrich your life!