It’s New Year’s. What’s the easiest thing you can do? Let’s start there.

Take vitamin C and vitamin D3.
Vitamin D3 probably does more for your immune system, but vitamin C has the added benefit of helping your body make collagen. So make that a habit. How hard is that?

Then start small with movement.
Do a few push-ups. I don’t care how many. Touch your toes a few times. Just get in motion and build on it.

This is basic physics. Isaac Newton: an object in motion stays in motion.
So get in motion. Start something. Then incrementally build on it.

Where people fail is going for the big enchilada all at once.
“Zero to five miles a day.”
You don’t make it. And worse—you lose confidence because you didn’t do what you said you’d do.

What does work is incremental progress.

When I first started jogging, it was literally:
Can I make it to the first telephone pole?
Then the second.
Then two poles and a mailbox.
Then two blocks.
Then half a mile.
Then a mile.
Eventually, five miles a day.

It worked because it was incremental.

That’s my recommendation: incremental progress.
You’ll feel good. You’ll be proud of yourself. And you’ll actually succeed.

This goes against most advice. People say, “Shoot for the moon.”
I say, let’s go with physics and reality. Start small and build.

If the worst thing that happens is you do 10 push-ups a day for the rest of your life, that’s not a bad outcome.

P.S. I had to start all over again not that long ago. I couldn’t do a single push-up. Now I’m up to 50.

Incremental progress.
Let’s do New Year’s right.