WellBeing

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Have you tried to make wellbeing change and felt you failed? Do you find yourself lurching from adopting great wellbeing strategies to abandoning them at other times? Or do you have desires to adopt new wellbeing strategies but just never seem to fin

Woman & Home

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If, like most of us, you make resolutions every year, promising to make big, sweeping lifestyle changes – eat less, exercise more, be kinder, work harder – then you’ll know how difficult it is to stick to new ways of doing things. Perhaps by now you’

MacLife

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REQUIRES Fabulous–Daily Routine Planner, iOS 12 or later YOU WILL LEARN How to use the app to build positive, long–lasting habits IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes FABULOUS AIMS TO help you build healthy habits by practicing small tasks every day. If you want

WellBeing

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It’s often thought that big change leads to big results, but this often isn’t the case. Consider the phenomenon of New Year’s resolutions; with great enthusiasm people commit to making big changes in their life, only to slide back into their old ways

The Art of Healing

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Decide on one new habit that you would like to develop to boost your health and wellbeing. Choose a simple action you can do routinely that will move you towards achieving your new healthy habit. Keeping it specific and manageable makes you more like

WellBeing

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As you look at your life, consider what would you like to change. Who do you want to become? Choose a mini habit that’s small enough you could do any day, even on those days when your energy is low or you’re pressed for time. If you’re feeling resist

Good

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With all of the changes the past 12 months have dished up, many of us have turned our attention inwards and started to focus more on ourselves and our wellness practice. Naturally, this change in focus means switching out old habits and forming new o

New Idea

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James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour. When it comes to building new habits, you can use the connectedness of beh

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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As we head towards March, some of those well-intentioned New Year’s resolutions we made may be falling off, and old habits could be sneaking back in. The brain controls our habitual behaviour, which has three elements – a cue, a routine and a reward

Cycling Plus

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When Dr BJ Fogg, director of the behaviour design lab at Stanford University, decided to improve his strength, he started by doing two press-ups after each trip to his bathroom at home. Over time he added more press-ups, ending with a celebratory fis

The Art of Healing

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Habits can allow us to do things without thinking about them too much, such as brushing our teeth. This can save us time and mental energy, which we can all agree are precious resources in today's world. But some habits do not serve us or our health

Mindful

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We can take any area or habit in our lives, fill it up with intentionality, awareness, and compassionate discipline, and reap deep rewards. When we take the time to love and replenish ourselves, we reconnect with our true nature and return to the wor

Women's Health Australia

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If you screw up, your goal is kaput MYTH BUSTER: Failure has undergone a rebrand. And if the anecdotal evidence of everyone from Alain de Botton to Jane Garvey via Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast hasn’t convinced you that failure is the blueprint

Mindful

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I’ve been struggling with my habits—trying to break some unhealthy ones, and make some healthier ones. I need some help staying the course though—why is this so hard? Dr. Judson Brewer is a neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and thought leader on habit ch

NEXT

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You may have heard it takes 30 days to create a new habit. Well, it’s not as simple or as difficult as that. If you have managed to create a new habit simply by doing it for 30 days, congratulations. Repetition is important, but most of us fail well

WellBeing

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BY JAN McLEOD JAN McLEOD is a highly respected coach, mentor, speaker and consultant, a specialist in the areas of high performance, wellbeing, nutrition, and change strategy in the workplace. W: thecapacityequation. com.au or madfor health.com.au Th

Simply Woman & Home

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Do you make the same resolution every year? Maybe last year you even stuck to your new habit for a month or so, but then, somehow, ran out of steam. Well, according to the latest research, you’re simply not flexing the right “mental muscle”. “The goo

Shop Talk

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Habits are capable of addressing far-reaching issues, from customer service to engagement, and even purpose. Leaders across industry lines have caught on, and habits are quickly becoming the way business leaders approach human capital management (HCM

RECOIL Presents: Concealment

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A habit is a behavior or practice that one performs regularly, and, once acquired, usually sticks around unless consciously broken. The effects of those habits add up and can amount to something rather significant. Small actions can lead to huge succ

The Atlantic

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When I was a kid, my dad did something on family vacations that perplexes me to this day: He ran. Every day, at least four or five miles, rising before the sun and before anyone else was awake. He wasn’t training for anything. He wasn’t trying to los

WHO

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We’ve all been there – perched on the couch at the end of a long day, scrolling through our news feed aimlessly, reading tiny snippets of content that are just enough to keep us engaged. Then, as we keep scrolling, we encounter some bad news. Yet, in

Diabetic Living Australia

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Resolutions often fail when they’re negative – for example, “don’t eat dessert” or “stop smoking”. Negative resolutions require you to be constantly vigilant. That’s mentally tough. “The brain can’t form habits around actions you don’t do,” says Art

Woman's Own

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1 TACKLE YOUR DRINK TRIGGERS Is it stress, a treat mentality or peer pressure that makes you reach for a drink? Whatever the trigger, try to deal with that first so you can set healthier limits for yourself. 2 CHANGE YOUR HABITS Drinking too much is

Woman's Own

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Do you make the same resolutions every January? Maybe last year you even stuck to new habits for a month or so, but then ran out of steam. It could be that you’re simply not flexing the right ‘mental muscle’. ‘The good news is that people don’t need

Futurity

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A single kind of neuron deep within the brain serves as a “master controller” of habits, new research in mice indicates. Some habits are helpful, such as automatically washing your hands before a meal or driving the same route to work every day. They

that's life

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Data from the Alcohol and Drug Foundation’s Break the Habit campaign shows that during the COVID-19 restrictions many of us have picked up some bad habits. CEO Dr Erin Lalor has some tips to help with reducing alcohol intake, which can also be applie

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour – no more sticky notes or alarms required! When it comes to building new hab

Woman's Day

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James Clear is a bestselling author, speaker and expert on habits and decision-making. Here, he shares how to rely less on your willpower and more on your everyday behaviour – no more sticky notes or alarms required! When it comes to building new ha

Woman's Day

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Habit stacking is a productivity trend that means connecting small tasks to a habit you already do. For example, journalling when you go to bed at night, calling your mother while you’re making dinner or practising mindfulness while you’re in the sho

WHO

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From Sunday morning pastries to cosy cups of cocoa in front of the TV, indulging in your favourite foods is one of life’s pleasures. But if you find yourself craving sugary foods intensely, it may be time to look at why this is the case. By knowing y