It Only Costs 5 Minutes to Change Your Life. What Will You Do?

We’ve talked about open eating and mindfulness and how they can be such a huge benefit to life. It not only reduces the amount of time we are fretting about our food, but it also makes us feel better and more energetic, and we can think more clearly about who we are now, and who we want to be. And we can become that!

The problem is… open eating and mindfulness are different in this reactive, fast-paced world, and it takes time to make a change that big. And really… who has a lot of extra time to give? 

This is probably the BIGGEST, most common barrier to making successful change. You have to take the time to understand where you are, and where you want to be, then map it out, and then try and fail a bunch and then you just get behind on everything. Super demotivating. 

What’s amazing about open eating though, is that every change can be broken into a small, simple step that fits right into your day. And with every small change you make, you buy back time and you see immediate results.

-    You improve your energy levels, so you get more done. 

-    You improve your clarity of thought, so you can plan and execute better.

-    Your stress and anxiety levels go down. 

-    Your physical health improves.

-    Your sleep improves

But what if, even those small changes seem too big? I know how that feels. I work full time, I run my own business separate from my full-time job, I’m raising 4 kids, and I have a marriage I need to keep healthy. Even a 5-minute change sometimes seems impossible these days. 

If time is your biggest barrier, let’s tackle that first. Get a piece of paper and a pen… jot the answers to these questions down:

In one week:

1.   How much time do you spend on social media?

2.   How much time do you spend researching supplements?

3.   How much time do you spend going to the doctor?

4.   How much time do you spend picking up prescriptions?

5.   How much time do you spend in a drive-through?

6.   How much time do you spend deliberating about what to eat?

7.   How much time do you spend in anxious disarray, trying to be productive?

8.   How much time do you spend lying awake at night, worrying or planning?

If you wrote a time down for any of these… I want to gift you back all of that time. 

Knowing how much time you spend in these areas should help you to be able to carve out 30 minutes a week (that’s just under 5 minutes per day) to choose one step of open eating to incorporate into your life. 

Take 5 minutes each day to track your food, plan a meal, or simply meditate and add mindfulness to your routine… any single one of these can change your life forever. 

In reality, 5 minutes isn’t hard to find. Even in my busy life - I’ve learned that not having time is my way of saying change isn’t worth my time. 

But you know… as I contemplate the benefits… having clarity, peace, confidence, and the gift of time back in my life because I balanced it? Gosh, 5 minutes doesn’t sound like it’s that high of a price to pay. 

What are you willing to dig up 5 minutes a day for?