This sentence is best known from the Hippocratic oath, an oath of ethics doctors take upon graduation. With or without a doctor helping you to get better, are you willing to stop intentionally doing what harms you?

Very few questions related to health have a binary and straightforward answer.

If you are one of the people who decides it’s time to make a change to your health and fitness, I’d like to challenge you to consider the following:

Many times, things don’t go as you wish they would. It is harder. It takes more resources. It takes longer (than what?). Stuff hits the fan.

Why do some people manage to eventually thrive after having experienced trauma, and why do others not? What makes people fragile, resilient, or even anti-fragile? How can people who are no superheroes use super compensation?

Humans move and behave in patterns. Diseases develop along patterns. Health and fitness grow in a pattern.

If you are the one talking to yourself, who is listening to you speak to yourself?