The easily forgotten and overlooked practices are what we focus on FIRST, because they are the most foundational and widely applicable.

Here are some features of these actionable steps to wellness that even someone with little self-discipline could see sweeping benefits from.

1 — these "80/20 practices” needed to be at a skill level where people of all age, weight, and strength levels could do them

2 — they needed to be accessible to as many people in the world as possible

3 — they needed to not be a time suck

4 — they needed to require no equipment

5 — they needed to be cost-free

Hydration is super boring, I know. It’s also super important. In this post, you’ll learn a novel way of thinking about what hydrating does to us, and more importantly, for us.

Not only does practicing breath control increase your willpower, it also helps you to realize how quickly you can condition your body to adapt to new and potentially “threatening” stimuli that your body would normally outright reject. The benefit? Anti-fragility, in a hyphenated word.

By practicing to slowly lean into the end range of motion where the pain begins to kick in and breathing through that experience, holding the painful position with every inhale and gently stretching with every exhale, you can eventually coerce your muscles to improve their cooperation and decrease their pain.

We have plenty of examples of what a lifetime of not being mindful of our physiological needs does to us from the older folks around us. Thanks to so many people’s dedication to constantly ignoring their aches and pains, we now have an idea as to how things can turn out for any of us that repeat those life choice patterns.