I grew up around a bunch of John Wooden fans, and I loved learning about Wooden’s first lesson: tie your shoelaces. Under his leadership, the UCLA Bruins won more than 29 NCAA championships, and that would have been impossible without the basic foundation.
A lot of devoted followers have turned their lives around following Wooden’s simple training, and it’s time we all go back and start over.
Good health depends on some very basic stuff.
I was a health coach for a corporation. It involved a supplement line that supported detoxification. Each coach had between 50 and 100 clients, and there were over 100 of us. The best success stories were from those coaches that stressed basic nutrition and lifestyle habits over the supplement line.
Clients who believed they were buying a protocol that would fix their health did not get great results. It wasn’t that the supplements didn’t work. Some clients just failed to understand that their basic habits were making them sick in the first place, and changing their habits was the key to overcoming their challenge, not the supplements.
The most basic habits make for the foundation of our health:
- getting to bed at around 10pm
- sleeping for 7-9 hours
- early morning sun exposure
- avoiding sugar
- avoiding bad fats
- moving whenever possible
- thinking rightly.
Supplements help in support of good habits like the above list. They don’t cancel bad habits, and they need to be high quality and made from real food.
If there’s one thing I want everyone to know right now it’s this.
Great players take time to tie their shoes
Most people are tripping and falling because they neglect the basics, and then they turn to supplements and spend money on new technology thinking they need to take something in order to feel better.
Removing bad habits and taking out bad foods is the key! Good habits that support the body’s natural, built-in restoration process will always be the foundation of health.
All I want to say here is, “First, tie your shoes.” This is a principle I will come back to over and over again because I don’t like wasting your time and money, and I don’t like seeing people discouraged and limping along.
Why we’re not great at keeping our shoes tied
The basics truly are the game changers. I hope you’ll give it some thought.
