Start here. Move and keep moving. Moving your body causes powerful shifts in the way you carry yourself through life. With challenging workouts, your psychology changes for the better. Your feelings, thoughts, motivation, and behavior improve. In other words, inner fitness, or your psychology, follows your physical activity.

This is where inner fitness is really emphasized. With this strategy, we equip you with psychological tools for sustaining lasting change: how to break negative patterns, identify internal struggles holding you back, adjust your thinking, put yourself first, and create momentum. This strategy also focuses on emotional intelligence, the power of language, and the influence of spirituality and authentic human connections in driving personal growth.

Feed yourself like you’re someone you love. BURN helps you find foods that cultivate strength, stamina, and self-confidence without the all-too-familiar feeling of deprivation and restriction. It advocates for small wins, sustainable changes, and a gradual approach to developing healthy habits. The strategy also emphasizes the importance of clean, high-quality nutrition in building and maintaining physical health, preventing disease, and promoting inner fitness.

Having goals is critical, but success comes from taking the focus off the finish line and placing it on the dedication, commitment, and hard work it takes to cross it. This book takes you through a system that teaches you how to set goals (finding your “why”) and how to create actionable steps to realize them. It emphasizes the importance of setting specific, emotionally-attached “NorthStar goals” and breaking them down into manageable steps.

You were never meant to do this alone. Your family, friends, and loved ones are integral to your success. You’ll learn how important it is to allow the people who love you to encourage and support you when things get hard. Surrounding yourself with people who believe in you and your goals, who maybe even have the same goals themselves, can be a huge source of motivation when yours wanes. BURN highlights the detrimental effects of social isolation on physical and mental health, and the importance of accountability, support, and empowerment in achieving personal and health-related goals.