I'm contemplating the great number of improvements I want to make in my life, each one supported by habits. Automatic behavior is the easiest way to get something right, but you can't change all your behavior at once, at best you can focus on one or two things and try to turn them into habits, then when it's automatic move on to a couple more habits.

Right now the habits I'm focusing on are standing at my work desk and taking only the stairs at work. The combination of those things should burn enough Calories to cause me to shed about 12-15lbs in a year. Of course, I can't eat more to compensate and the additional activity should increase my hunger, but that's alright. If I focus on eating very nourishing, healthy foods, I still come out ahead overall. More out = More in and BETTER in. That should help reshape my body. Other plusses to these goals are increased muscle mass, endurance, strength, focus, saving money on commuting, etc. These three small legos together add up to a big change. But the real reason I chose them was that I'm at a new job where I'm at work, working on a computer for 8 hours a day. That is BAD. Sitting is bad for us. I am not going to get any traction on any other health goals with this giant fitness suck of sitting for 8 hours a day. Now it's not like standing around is a ton better, but anything I can do to turn this 8 hours into something closer to training instead of de-training is a good thing. That's why I'm focusing first on these goals.

I have a HUGE list of items I could have chosen. Eating only natural unprocessed foods, working out every day, morning runs, making the bed every day, keeping the house cleaner, sticking to shopping lists, sticking to budgets, etc, etc but I can't be successful trying to absorb all that change at once.

So. Standing. Stairs. It's a start.