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Make healthy the default
Humans tend to follow the path of least effort. By making healthy behavior the default, you stack the odds in your favor, as you are less likely to opt out of something if it is easy, even if you don’t want to do it.
If you can't stick to your habits...then they don't work
Habits aren’t fixed and the best ones need to evolve to serve you - here’s how to do it.
Why I think “everything in moderation” isn’t great advice…
Moderation is a skill. It takes practice to get good at it, and it is going to fit some circumstances better than others. If we take the advice as it is given, as an absolute, we will fail more than we need to.
The power of environment design
Our environment plays a big role in our behaviors, desirable and undesirable.
5 (more) skills to make adhering to your nutrition efforts easier
5 more practices that can make your efforts stick long term
Plan B is not an excuse…
Having a Plan B rarely means that you aren’t committed to plan A. It means you are realistic in your expectations when something outside of your control happens, you’ve thought of ways to pivot.
5 skills to help you adhere to your nutrition efforts
If you recently vowed to improve your diet then these 5 skills can help you adhere to your efforts.
Mismatched expectations are killing your goals and results
In a recent conversation with my big brother, I said the phrase “you can’t ride 2 horses with 1 arse mate!” …Here is why
Fail and be ok with it
We’ve all made a new year’s resolution that didn’t stick. Why? Because we don’t allow ourselves to be bad at it at first.
We fail a few times and then give up. Here’s how to avoid that mistake this time
Not seeing changes? Remember this key thing…
Your daily habits like taking the stairs, batch cooking some food, and skipping the next episode of The Office in favor of more sleep, might not feel like they’re creating change because they are hard to detect when compared directly against your outcome goal. But here is how they add up…
4 reasons to have a plan
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there”.
Mindfulness or automation? Which one should you use?
Which one should you actually do? This is a nuanced topic and requires the fundamental understanding that both mindfulness and automation are simply tools and both can benefit different people and different situations.
You can't pour from an empty cup
It can be easy to conflate hours worked with productivity (I know this firsthand from my years as a brick and mortar gym owner). This is a fallacy. Long hours DON’T always equal success, and more often leads to burnout at work and in the gym.
Kevin from The Office taught me a valuable fitness lesson
What Kevin Malone from The Office taught me about health and fitness that blew my mind.
Videos aren't coaches
Here are the 2 reasons why we don’t take advantage of the free content online…
3 things that happen when you do things you don’t want to
Take action even when circumstances aren’t ideal.
You are already great at the thing you’re trying to fix.
People tend to rely MORE on habits during periods of high stress. Which habits however, are determined by which ones you cultivate, develop, and give your time to. If you are all but guaranteed to fall back on habits when the shit hits the fan, then it pays to spend time now developing ones that serve you.