Start with ONE Thing: Can a simple or small change make a HUGE impact on your life?
and mindfulness with hopes to help you improve your overall well-being. Ready to know more about today’s topic? Keep reading below to learn an important life hack from this featured book.
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Start with ONE Thing: Can a simple or small change make a HUGE impact on your life? If you’re going to do just ONE thing to transform your health, what would it be? Eating a balanced diet? Exercising? Practicing deep breathing? Many of us want quick and easy ways to improve our health. However, when it comes to diet, fitness, and overall well-being, it can be hard to separate the facts from the fads. Moreover, it can be hard to find changes and routines that easily fit into our daily lives. That’s why today, I’d like to share with you a good book about transforming our health. I believe one of the keys to achieving our #HealthGoals is not by immediately starting BIG, but by doing and focusing on ONE THING, one step at a time. Starting With SIMPLE Changes Michael Mosley is a British TV journalist, producer, presenter, and former doctor who has worked for the BBC since 1985. He is best known as a presenter of TV programs about biology and medicine, and for his regular appearances on The One Show. Mosley is an intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diet advocate who has written bestselling books promoting the ketogenic diet. These include:
Additionally, in October 2022, Mosley published his latest book titled: “Just One Thing: How Simple Changes Can Transform Your Life!”
In this book, which is based on the popular BBC podcast, “Just One Thing,” Mosley presents simple and easy changes you can make daily to experience significant positive impacts on your overall health. Let’s dive deeper into the message of this book… According to Mosley, there are around 30 simple and easy activities you can try every day. These are grouped according to the ideal time of day they can be done, although Mosley states these activities can be done anytime. The times are divided into:
… and what are some of the activities Mosley mentioned in his book?
In this article, I’d like to focus on the transformative health benefits of standing on one leg. Mosley says standing on one leg is something you can incorporate into any part of your day, every day. He adds he personally does that while brushing his teeth! Why is he recommending this activity? It’s because Mosley believes balance is a predictor of a person’s health in later life. In his words: “There’s a lot of research that shows that people’s balance is deteriorating because they spend so much time on their bottoms.” There was actually a study published in the British Medical Journal where researchers took a whole bunch of 50-year-olds and measured lots of things about them, including their ability to stand on one leg with the eyes opened and with the eyes closed. A decade later, these researchers studied the same group of people. Guess what they found out? One of the best predictors of life expectancy among those who were still alive and hadn’t died of cancer or heart disease was their ability to stand on one leg! According to Mosley in his book: “So, it seems it’s a very powerful predictive value. But also, it has very powerful practical value. Because it means you’re less likely to fall over and you’re more likely to keep going.” Moreover, Mosley says balancing on one leg is an ability that improves the more you do it. First, he recommends aiming for 30 seconds with both eyes opened and 10 seconds with both eyes closed. Then, as this activity becomes a part of your daily routine, you can eventually increase the number of seconds you’re standing on one leg. Other topics in Mosley’s book include how eating chocolate with 60% to 70% cacao content is good for the heart, how singing can give you a natural “high,” and how having more house plants can improve your mood and boost your productivity. See? Mosley’s recommendations are truly simple and easy to apply! They wouldn’t force you to make major changes in your daily routines. The key here is not trying to do all the 30 activities stated in Mosley’s book, but CONSISTENCY. According to him, even if you’ve resolved to do just one of the 30 in the suggested activities, you can still see gradual improvement in your health and well-being as long as you’re consistent. I encourage you to grab a copy of the book and read it during your free time, too! … and for those of you who’ve already read it, feel free to send me a message via LinkedIn or leave a comment here regarding your thoughts on Mosley’s book. Happy Friday and advance happy weekend, everyone! |
