Goals? but habits create heart health

Habits make you do the hard yards.Heart health will follow.

Are you working on your goals for the year?

Those new years resolutions? Can not even remember them? Habits will help you.

You know the story of how you eat an elephant? Bite for bite. Yes, it’s an old one, but there’s more to it I think. Eating the elephant is the goal but bite for bite is the habit. Heart health is the same.

Because I was born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) named Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) I was always aware of my heart and how my lifestyle could influence my heart. I have seen how good and bad habits can influence me.

The goal is easy to set, well anyone can do it(and should do it). Where does it go wrong for so many of us? It’s the daily thing, the grind, the small bites.

The key?

HABIT — The Oxford dictionary says “a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up“

I don’t know about you but I want something good in my life that is “settled or a regular tendency” and hard to give up.

I like to dream about how I will ensure heart health for myself but the truth is that dreams will not improve my…