by michelle | Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
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 –...
by michelle | Habits, Lifestyle Behaviors, Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
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...
by michelle | Habits, Sustainble Behavior Change
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...
by michelle | Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
I’ve been doing a lot of podcast interviews recently. A question I’ve been getting a lot more frequently than I could have imagined goes something like this: “Michelle, motivation is overrated, isn’t it?” As someone who has seen the concrete value of motivation,...
by michelle | Lifestyle Behaviors, Mental Flexibility, Motivation, Sustainble Behavior Change
It’s been interesting to me the extent to which The Joy Choice has brought new interest to my first, award-winning book about how to convert exercise from feeling like a chore to feeling like a gift, and in the process, cultivating high-quality, stable...
by michelle | Habits, Lifestyle Behaviors, Sustainble Behavior Change
When it comes to changing our eating and exercise behaviors, we generally plunge in, all charged up! Like track stars, we await the starting gun and then take off!But unlike track stars, we don’t have a smooth track that we can follow to the finish line....
