We rarely change our behaviors based on doctor’s orders, because fear-based health recommendations don’t work long-term. Here’s how to shift the focus to joy and create sustainable, healthy habits.
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Wellness is a habit to prioritize. Here’s how to start making small habit changes that lead to big transformations in well-being.
Struggling to establish healthier habits? You can make it easier with a simple technique called “habit stacking.” This is one of my favorite lessons from James Clear’s Atomic Habits.
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Struggling to establish a new wellness habit? When developing healthy habits feels overwhelming, shift your focus to the “Power of One.” Think in terms of small actions to take today rather than the magnitude of changes over the long-term.
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When we feel stuck it can prevent us from moving forward, changing a habit, or improving our lives. Often this happens when we focus on the wrong thing. To get un-stuck, we can use this simple mindset shift to change our focus.
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Want to establish healthier habits? Start the right way by setting a SMART health goal. When done well, SMART health goals keep you motivated so you can build better habits.
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Here’s How To Avoid It!
When building new habits, be on the lookout for the all-or-nothing mentality. This common behavioral change pitfall squashes motivation and derails progress. Here’s how you can avoid it.
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Satisficing is a simple mindset shift that can make habit change less overwhelming. It’s an efficient decision-making technique that allows us to quickly get started without having all the answers figured out.
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From the perspective of Integrative Wellness, there are seven key areas of health and well-being. Evidence suggests all of these contribute to overall wellness, affecting both mental and physical health. We can use these categories to quantify our wellness and guide our health goals.
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Changing habits is difficult enough. One way to set yourself up for success, is to start with the right foundation. Here’s how to use strength-based reframing to leverage what is working to improve what isn’t working.
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Learning is a crucial step in effective habit change, one that can be facilitated through the act of writing. Read about the intersection between habits, learning, and writing.
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