Make Your World Work For You

Whether or not you make healthy choices is often a factor of your environment. How you structure your time and space can either support or sabotage your desire to live well.

If you buy a treadmill you’re creating an opportunity to get fit. If you put that treadmill in a cold, dank basement, you undercut your plan to take a daily walk.

When you fill your grocery cart with vegetables and lean protein sources, you increase the likelihood you’ll eat a satisfying, nutrient-dense meal. When you stuff your cabinets with cheese curls, however, then the orange goop under your fingernails is the least of your problems.

Dust off your fitness equipment and put it in the room you use most often. Shift the produce in your fridge out of the closed drawers and onto the top center shelves. Bring a pair of walking shoes to keep under your desk. When the days are sunny and warm, you’ll be ready to head out on an invigorating walking break. Bring the healthy resources in your world out where you can see and touch and taste them—and maybe, just maybe, you will.