Tag: physical activity
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6 Simple Hacks for Increasing Your Physical Activity and Exercise
Having a hard time fitting in physical activity? You’re not alone. Being active is hard. In an effort to be ever more efficient, we’ve engineered activity out of lives. Lots of jobs, from farming to even desk jobs are far less active than before. The same is true for household chores now with dishwashers, remote…
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If I’m obese, is it my fault?
If I ask most people, they’ll say it’s that person’s fault, perhaps not to his/her face, but there will be at least judgement of what the person did or didn’t do to gain weight. Maybe he/she ate too much, or sat on the couch too much, or maybe a bit of both. Either way, most…
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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…