Tag: motivation
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Chronic Diseases Begin Early in Life- Years Before any Diagnosis
Having worked in cardiac rehabilitation for over twenty years I learned early on that many patients are in the best shape of their lives the day they complete the program. That makes sense, to some extent, because they’ve just spent the last four months in a supervised exercise program. They also feel better for it.…
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Learning to Fail in Order to Succeed in Changing Behaviour (Part 2)
There’s a saying that goes: Failing to plan, is planning to fail. It’s a neat catch-phrase meant to emphasize the importance of planning. Planning definitely is important but we should also be planning to fail. This doesn’t mean we have to be defeatist or negative but rather recognizing that failure is a part of, and…
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Learning to Fail in Order to Succeed in Changing Behaviour (Part 1)
fail: to be unsuccessful in what is attempted (The Oxford English Dictionary) No matter what dictionary I look at, all define to fail, or failure, as the opposite of success. Essentially failure has no distinct definition of its own, but maybe it should. From an early age, we’re taught that failing is not good, which…
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Changing Behaviour is Hard, But Not Impossible (Part 2)
It’s one thing to make a change in your life, it’s quite another to keep it going. We spend so much time talking about changing old and initiating new behaviours that we miss discussing the real challenge. For most of us, starting something new isn’t all that hard, just look at all the new faces…