Is Needing to Be “Accountable” to Someone for Exercise Setting You Up to Fail?
Let me lead with my bias: I've always cringed inside when people have told me that they need to find an "accountability partner" to succeed with exercise. Last week, I was on a call with a new coach I started training to help his clients make sustainable lifestyle...
If Marie Kondo Can’t Do It, Who Can? What a Disciplined Guru Teaches Is about Lifestyle Behaviors Like Exercise
If Marie Kondo Can’t Do It, Who Can? What a Disciplined Guru Teaches Is about Lifestyle Behaviors Like Exercise Not long after the new year, I read this quote in a Washington Post article that stopped me in my tracks: "Marie Kondo, 38, has caught up with the rest of...
Is It Groundhog Day Again for Your Eating and Exercise Goals?
This piece was co-written by myself and Alison L. Miller. It’s February 2nd -- even though you committed to exercising five days a week and getting it finally right -- those New Year’s resolutions are already long gone. It’s Groundhog Day – again. Why are...
Excercise Commitment – Which Words Make Us Feel Better About Exercise?
We Need a New Dictionary for Healthier Living Before you dive into the story below, I have a quick question for you: Which of the two options below do you think better promotes exercising? Commit to exercising Celebrate through exercising Click here to participate in...
Ditch Habits if You Want to Create Lasting Changes in Exercise and Eating
I’ll get right to the point: If we want to create sustainable change in our (and our patients’, clients’, employees’) healthy eating, exercise, and self-care choices (and why wouldn’t we?), we need to move beyond fads, conventional thinking, and pop culture and take a...