Tag: planning
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How To Start Exercising
Congratulations. You’ve decided to start exercising. A fantastic first step. Exercise is great for your health. Not only does it reduce your chances of getting disease and early death, it also improves your mental wellbeing and even one session will refresh you and make you feel better. But where do you start? Do you sign…
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How to Build Healthy Habits
Habits often get a bad rap. When we think of our habits, or those of others, it’s often the negative ones that spring to mind; he has a habit of interrupting, she has a habit of leaving the lights on. But habits by definition aren’t necessarily bad. You can have good habits, such as brushing…
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When Exercising, Motivation gets us Started, but Discipline Keeps us Going
It’s 6 am. You’re alarm goes off. It’s dark outside and you can hear the rain pelting against the window. Time for your exercise. How many times has this happened and you’ve laid in bed debating whether to get up and go for that run or bike ride? Or even whether to brave the short…
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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…