DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP BEFORE YOU EMBARK ON YOUR HEALTH PURSUIT

Everyone who has set out to improve their health and fitness knows that consistency is key.

Most would even ACKNOWLEDGE at the outset that they ‘hope’ to be consistent.

And yet, statistics show that by March of each year gym attendance would have already dropped by 70–80% from January.

Awareness of the importance of consistency, is therefore not the problem to the global health crisis.

The problem is: the inability and failure to implement consistency.

The problem stems from that health, for most people, is just that: A concept. A blackbox. Humans want IMMEDIATE rewarding.

Concepts do not fuel dopamine and a blackbox concept cannot compete with the immediate deliciousness of eating that chocolate cake.

For non gym rats, it is difficult for the post exercise mood elevation or the body transformation effects one desires but may or may not see some time in the unknown future, to compete with the immediate comfort of relaxing on ones sofa.

Solution: A simple and powerful mental hack to promote consistency is to create visualizations of healthfulness in your brain as tangible wins with each health promoting action taken.

You create the immediate rewarding pathways feedback loop when you visualize healthfulness as an immediately tangible win with each health promoting action taken, at a cellular/molecular level.

This is how it will work:

1. engineer your own dopamine pathways activated by visualizing healthfulness as an IMMEDIATE WIN with each health promoting action taken, at a cellular/molecular level. Your brain sees this as a tangible thing. Human brain likes tangible.

2. Reinforce these dopamine pathways by performing health promoting actions over and over.

3. Boom you have consistency, and a brain REWIRED to be biased towards performing health-promoting activities and making health-promoting choices.

4. You start to feel and see a difference, healthfulness in your lives, on your body — the WIN further reinforces the neural pathways

5. Rinse, repeat the above. Sustainable healthful living lifestyle achieved.

This technique has the added benefit of minimizing or removing the friction between YOU and that health promoting activity because it minimizes the reliance on ‘willpower’ and ‘discipline.’

Now willpower and discipline are important traits, but they are incredibly taxing on neuronal energy and present as friction between you and that THING you want. When you have had a long day at work, it can be a challenge rely on willpower and discipline to haul yourself to the gym or to not eat that chocolate cake.

When you have created your own immediately rewarding pathways to performing health-promoting activies, you need not rely on the high friction mental states of willpower and discipline, that most people simply cannot reliably call on in their already busy and stressful lives.

The reason is because these activities become inherently pleasurable and rewarding in of its own, and your brain is not choosing it on the basis of some potential and intangible future outcome.

Check out the visualization strategy here in my other post.

# 1 STEP TO BETTER HEALTH THAT EVERYONE MISSES

What is health? That is the million dollar question

‘health is not the absence of disease’

‘create health, create wealth’

We have all heard the above.

But what IS health, and how can it be achieved?

Reality: No one has perfect health, nor is perfect health attainable; EVERYONE can have better health.

Even Better: Everyone can have better health tomorrow, the next hour, the next instant.

WAIT anyone can have better health THIS instance. AMAZING!


Because guess what, to have better health tomorrow you need to act on the steps to have better health today. To have better health today, we need to have better health to have the next moment,

So now we must ask ourselves — well what should I be doing/not doing in this moment to have the better health I need the next moment so I can have better health NOW, today, tomorrow, in 10 years?


What must we change? Better results tomorrow requires change today.

“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.” — George Bernard Shaw

We all know consistency is critical to any pursuit, the problem is not the knowing, but the implementation.

The critical problem to solve becomes: How do we become more consistent and stay in our efforts?

Here is the answer:

Health can be expressed as a complex and dynamic combination of billions of complex multivariables varying as a function of:

1. time,

2. internal factors,

3. external factors.

For all busy folks, stay with me.


Think of our health as comprised of billions of biological processes (biochemical+bioelectrical) that are occurring continuously each moment, second, microsecond, nanosecond.

The performance/lack of performance, quality/lack of quality and accuracy/lack of accuracy of execution of each of these billions of biological processes is what determines the function of our organs and organ systems which ultimately determines progression towards disease, or progression to revival/rejuvenation.

Well how can I know how my biological processes are performing, and what these biological processes even are, I am not a scientist!?

This is where the variables I listed above: time, internal factors, and external factors come in. We cannot change time.

We know from modern science exercise physiology, nutrition science, sleep science to name a few fields, that there are a large number of what I have defined as ‘internal factors’ and ‘external factors’ are available for us to modify through small habits and behaviors.

What are some examples?

Internal factors – factors within the bounds of our skin: nutrient status-the foods you have eaten, circadian rhythm alignment, hormone balance, gut microbiome diversity, hydration status, mindset, your genes..

External factors – factors in the environment that interact with everything inside us: the food in your fridge, the air we breath, natural light, artificial light, sounds we are exposed to…

These are just SOME of the factors that impact the performance of the billions of biochemical processes occurring in the human body at any given moment.

Liberated? Or overwhelmed?

Allow me now to liberate you from the overwhelm! It is clear from Science and medicine that there are a few HIGH-IMPACT variables that anyone can modify NOW to modify the performance billions of biological processes, in the direction we WANT, regardless of whether it is more, or less, or faster or slower, or just ‘better.’

In the pursuit of better health, these HIGH IMPACT variables can be easily modified by anyone to make a positive improvement in their health and lives.

Even better most of these HIGH IMPACT variables can be accessed in your daily life without a high financial cost.

A useful frame work for thinking about health is that is

Health = Sum of (OptimizedDailyHabit_1+ OptimizedDailyHabit_2….Optimized_DailyHabit_n)^time

In other words, think of the pursuit of health as an aggregation of optimized daily habits (or micro-behaviors) compounded over time.


In this system of thinking, you visualize your improvement with every implementation, modification or optimization you make. Every small step you took, has ALREADY make an improvement and modified an aspect of your biological system.

You are not waiting for an end goal. Humans are not good at working towards a goal they cannot visualize. In this way, you KNOW that what you are doing is enriching, nourishing, your mind and body in a positive direction by creating this mental picture. The mental picture as a micro-success will stimulate your dopamine pathways to drive you to WANT MORE. Ergo sustainable path to consistency has been created.

START this instant with action on the HIGH IMPACT variable for maximum results – these are the biggest bang for your buck/time variables that anyone can utilize to improve daily performance, to feel better


Once you have integrated the HIGH IMPACT variables into your life, you can continue with the next set of variables, and the next set, etc.

I will show you how in the articles that follow and identify the variables for you to modify in your daily life and the exacts action items for you to do.

With this approach, positive and noticeable results can be attained and (attained without a high financial cost – health does not require a pantry full exotic superfood ingredients or expensive supplements – subjects for the future)

To sum up


CRITICAL Step 1: Picture in your mind, cells and molecules moving around in your body, taking up nutrients, communicating with each other as you are reading and internalizing this article.