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You Think Goals are Going to Help You With Your Health?

Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
4 min readMay 5, 2021

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Try habits!

The words “Habits to be made” in neon light sign.
Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash

I’m not an anti goal setter. I set goals all the time, but that is not always what gets me through the grind. I need a daily thing. You can call it habits, ok we all call it habits.

Goals inspire us. They make you feel good about yourself. You do all those nice stuff like visualization meditating on it and so on. For how long?

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. -Octavia Butler

You know there are those superhumans who put a goal up on their wall and just follow it?

They just look up and there they go moving towards perfect health.

Not for me. I need habits.

Habits make you do the hard yards. Health wellness and prosperity will follow.

Are you working on your goals for the year?

Those new Year resolutions? Those that you made last December. 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…

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Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart
Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

Written by Janco Vorster-My Afib Heart

www.myafibheart.com Blogger, Tetralogy of Fallot(TOF), AFIB(Atrial fibrillation) and panic! survivor. Weight & Body tracker notebook https://amzn.to/3hVGCUd

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