A question I am often asked by those that are inspired by my strength, resiliency and "heart" is "where should I start?"
You should start with goals. Big. Hairy. Audacious. Goals. Make them your wildest dreams. Make them lofty goals. What is your pinnacle? Now when do you want to achieve those goals by? 10 years? 5 years? 1 year? Great! write it down!
I personally choose to limit mine to 5 years or 1 year because it's more attainable. Then I break down each goal like a Christmas tree graph to what I needs to happen to achieve that goal. For example, I am way overweight and my big lofty goal to fix that is to lose 80 lbs in 1 years time. What do I need to do in order to make that happen? Well, I'm going to break this down into months and say I need to lose about 7 lbs per month. I will ask myself a few questions about this goal. 1.) What habits do I need to make or break in order for this to become a reality? 2.) How much money do I need to make/save for this goal? 3.) What kind of people do I need in my life to help me along the way? 4.) What amount of time do I need to carve out in my schedule each day/week/month for this goal? 5.) What things must naturally happen first before other things can happen to achieve this goal? 6.) What can I be doing each day to get one step closer? So to answer each question for the weight loss goal: 1.) I will need to eat balanced meals. I will need to exercise. I will need to sleep well. I will need to stop with all the sugar and snacking mindlessly. I will need to plan my meals. And I will need to really increase my water intake. 2.) eating healthy means that the healthier foods cost a little more so I will need to adjust my grocery budget accordingly and start looking for coupons for those items that should be on my grocery list. 3.) I will need someone to motivate me and keep me accountable. That means a workout buddy and someone willing to go on the diet with me. 4.) I will need to set aside time each week for better meal planning as well as time each day for exercising. 5.) I couldn't really think of anything logical for this particular goal that needed to happen first-second-third-last sort of deal. Some goals are just that way. 6.) This is really where I will fine tune the goal and lay it out with habits I'm making or breaking. I like to use habitbull (ios)
it helps me track a habit that I lay out and I can set reminders for so for this one, I would say, drinking half my weight in ounces of water would be my habit, so 110 ounces (I hate just water, so I add either fruit or drop some Young Living essential oils in it for taste) a day would be my goal for that habit and I'd track it every day for the set amount of time on habitbull.
Another would be tracking every meal in the myfitnesspal app to make sure I am staying within my limits of carbs, protein and fat (I'm doing the Ketogenic diet or low carb high fat) and yet another would be to walk for 15 minutes a day, 3 days a week for 2 weeks to start out then add more time/days or additional exercises. Not really something trackable, but I will also use only a 9" round plate to eat off of because the plate looks full
and you have smaller portions whereas when you want to fill the 12" plate and end up overeating. I might also track that I'm cutting out all drinks except water, coffee or tea with zero calorie sweeteners (I like truvia because it doesn't give me a headache). I will continue to break it down into habits to make or break and track each one of them so I am working on some part of this goal every day and I will measure my success by the 7 lbs per month breakdown. If some months I lose more than other but it still balances out to be on track for the year, then I will still be successful. 
So go now. I want you to make some goals for yourself, for your family, for your career, for your love life, for your spiritual life and for your recreational time. Make them BIG and break them down then run full steam ahead and smash those goals! Have an amazing day everyone!
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