Moderate to Elevate, M2E
Moderation is the key to elevation. What do you want to elevate in your life? Elevate your nutrition, elevate your fitness, elevate your mood, elevate your work, elevate your training, elevate your relationships, elevate your well-being, elevate your finances, and the list goes on.
I’ve been talking about moderation for most of my 30+ year fitness/wellness career. It’s not sexy or exciting, but it works. Every year a new diet, a new work out, a new self-help tip is going catch your eye and sell itself as “the way” to meet your goals. There is no magic plan that works for everyone. We are all completely unique complicated human beings with different genetics, lifestyles and goals. But universally, our habits define our success. You can moderate your habits to elevate your goals.
We need to moderate many things especially all or nothing thinking and the belief that you must “do this one thing to get that result”. Everyone has different ideas and needs for this and that. We need to tune into ourselves and shut out some of the external noise. Moderate outside opinions to elevate your own thinking.
Moderation is a universal answer, but what to moderate must be uniquely defined to elevate your personal goals. Perhaps you need to moderate alcohol consumption, moderate your intake of sweets, moderate fast food, moderate screen time, moderate sugary beverages, moderate news or media, moderate portion size... If your goal is to elevate your well-being you may need to moderate one or more of those or other things, but let’s start with one.
Start with one habit to moderate and leave space for another to be elevated. Here are a few examples.
- Moderate intake of sugar sweetened beverages to elevate your water intake.
- Moderate alcohol intake to elevate sleep quality.
- Moderate screen time to elevate time for activity.
- Moderate convenience food intake to elevate intake of whole foods.
- Moderate online shopping to elevate savings.
- Moderate negativity to elevate your mood.
Moderate to elevate and repeat until the new habit is routine. Notice how good it feels to accomplish this thing for yourself. Think about a next step and repeat the process. You are on your way to success. Keep building step by step.
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