1. Find a practitioner that you trust and feel comfortable with

2. Be compliant in following-through with the advice and medications you are prescribed

3. Be proactive in scheduling routine appointments. Pick a regular time. Make it a thing.

4. Prioritise your health (and appointments) over work, social commitments and material possessions

5. Accept that life has challenges and set-backs rather than complaining or blaming

6. Visualise your healthy self with the outcomes you desire rather than as someone with a condition

7. Avoid people and activities that detract from who you want to be or what you wish to achieve

8. If you fall down seven times then get up eight

9. When you have invested time, effort and money in your health don’t sabotage it with unhealthy rewards

10. Acknowledge your gradual progress along the way rather than waiting for the grand result

In short, be true to yourself!