Here's a secret: If you're just starting to improve your health or on the journey, you don’t have to do it all at once. You have your entire life to be healthy.

If you’re anything like the majority of the population, you lead a busy life, working full-time, and juggling various responsibilities. When our lives are overloaded with tasks, our health can often take a back seat.

We've been conditioned to believe that being healthy requires doing it all—eating well, sleeping well, managing stress, and breaking a sweat daily. This "no days off" mentality can be exhausting. Ever been there before?

Often, this mentality results in burnout, less joy, or feeling like you’re doing it all with little progress. As a full-time employee, partner, caretaker, etc., you may find it challenging to show up as your best self.

In my coaching practice, I emphasize "small steps over no steps." It's about doing what is doable for you right now.

For example, let’s take a look at exercise. Maybe you want to start exercising more. Exercise is not your life. Instead, we need to make exercise fit into our lives and not the other way around. This could look like 10-minute walks every other day when it fits in. As you build and find your groove, maybe you shift your goal to 60, 100, or 150 minutes of light to intense walking per week.

How can you choose daily habits that improve your body without trading one problem for another?

Start small if you want to make a change in your life, and remember, even small progress is progress.