14/01/2026
Looking into this new year with its 365 days, I ask you 1 question-
What needs changing around your health and fitness?
Thinking about your answer, are you setting goals?
Let me introduce a better concept that can help you make changes for the better.
Setting goals can be useful but something I’ve learnt to do in the last 5 years is to set standards.
These aren’t outcomes based and therefore easy to give up on.
These are intrinsic, they are who you ARE.
You need to decide who that is and work with her/him.
If you have a certain standard of how you conduct yourself in public eg, don’t swear, then this is your inner navigation.
Standards in health are no different.
They become part of who you ARE rather than what you do sometimes to work for a goal.
You set your own standards and keep adding to them, eg I’m going to walk outside in the morning and evening for 20 mins each time- daily.
Once this standard is set, introduce another one-I’m eating primarily whole foods because I want to have better health.
When you know what you want to be then it’s easy to live those standards.
Goals come and go, your non negotiable standards stay.
