66. Begin with the End in Mind

Key Takeaways:

 

• Approach your goals by working backwards. Ask yourself what do you want to accomplish and what steps do you need to take to achieve that?

• Aging is an inevitable part of life, but we can implement habits into our daily routines that can help make this process easier on us. 

• Understand your internal motivations and use them to help motivate you every day to achieve your goals. 

 

How can we maximize not only our life span but our health span? And what can you do now to set yourself up to set yourself up for a life of longevity and health? Those are questions that came to mind when host Dr. Andrew Fix was reading Peter Attia’s latest book, Outlive: The Science of Art and Longevity. In today’s episode, Dr. Andrew explores the phrase “begin with the end in mind,” and what that means for him and his approach to physical therapy. 

 

Unfortunately, aging is an inevitable part of life. And while we cannot avoid it, there are many things we can do to make the process easier on our bodies. So when we approach our health-related goals, it is best to start with an understanding of what the desired outcome is that we are looking for. Dr. Andrew suggests that listeners ask themselves what kinds of things they want to be doing at a certain point in their life. Do you still want to be a runner in your 50’s and 60’s? If that is your goal, then what are you doing now that will help you progress and maintain your body’s physical capacity to get there?

 

By figuring out our internal motivations, we are more likely to find things that motivate us day in and day out. And by approaching our goals with the end goal in mind, we can begin to implement habits that can help put us on the right track to living a healthy and full life. 

 

Quotes

• “Where do you want to be? What is the desired outcome that you are looking for and how can you devise a plan of action for how you're going to get there?” (02:12-02:23 | Dr. Andrew)

• “What is the mental visualization of what you have in mind? That's the first step.” (03:37-03:43 | Dr. Andrew)

• “Maybe there's a very deeply instilled internal motivation of why that person wants to be able to do that thing. And that’s great. We need to know that information in order to help hold that client accountable in the office.” (06:03-06:18 | Dr. Andrew)

• “When you're setting goals for yourself, you need something that's going to motivate you day in and day out and hold you accountable to do the smaller steps that are going to help you reach that outcome. Because it's not just going to happen just because you wrote it down on a piece of paper.” (06:20-06:39 | Dr. Andrew)

• Unfortunately, starting at a relatively young age, like in our thirties, our physical fitness and health begins to decline as we age. We start to lose muscle mass, we lose aerobic capacity, unless you are doing significant training in your early years to try and progress and maintain these things to fight off the effects that aging and time has on all of our bodies.” (08:26-08:59 | Dr. Andrew)

Links

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https://7habitsstore.com/

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