This time of year is fraught with resolutions that never actualize or worse – the steps that would lead towards them are never taken. Are you tired of looking in the mirror and asking yourself the same questions you have for the past many?

Why can’t I lose 10 pounds? Why am I tired? Why don’t I have any time? These questions and many more fill the minds of most – at least for the next month, after which time they drift away deep into the abyss of our busy lives only to resurrect themselves next January 1st.

It’s an easy mistake to make – thinking of creating optimal health as involving only physical actions.  Every week you address the brain-body connection through specific chiropractic care, properly fuel your body via Eat By Design foods and receive adequate exercise by following Move By Design protocols.  You experience more energy, better sleep, a stronger immune system and clearer thinking….  The assumption is you’re doing everything you need to live an extraordinary life and the results speak for themselves.

Not so fast! To truly be well, you must do everything, at the same time, for a period of time, preferably a lifetime.

When Watson and Crick discovered the DNA molecule in 1953 they proclaimed, “We’ve found the secret of life!” It sparked over six decades dedicated to the pursuit of uncovering the genetic cause of disease.

We were told The Human Genome Project would map our DNA and tell us of the grave future that lay ahead. Thankfully, Big Pharma had plenty of chemical solutions to keep us alive and ticking.

The results? Well, let’s just say they’ve fallen quite short of the hundreds of billions invested. In 2009, 27 prominent geneticists published a paper in the journal Nature acknowledging they had discovered no more than a fractional genetic basis for disease.

Every year millions of people worldwide attempt to erase memories of shortcomings past by making resolutions at the beginning of January. Fast forward 365 days, and most are doing it all over again with very little having changed in the gap. What stops all of those well-meaning resolutions from becoming actual results that improve the quality and quantity of people’s lives?

Inaction seems to be the obvious answer.  Not doing that which you say you will makes it pretty difficult to achieve much of anything. But I suggest inaction is just another symptom — a symptom of the core problem that robs so many of the extraordinary lives they deserve. The real culprit is “The Limiting Belief,” the deeply held conviction that something is true when it just simply is not.