Category: Goal Setting
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Is it meaningful?
Anythingcomic demonstrates an important part of success: having a specific goal that is meaningful and appealing to you. Anythingcomic.com is offline. If you know where this artist moved their work, please let me know!
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Is It Possible To Build Muscle Doing Cardio?
Yes, of course. People who row, swim, run, and bike routinely build and maintain muscle as they practice. Competitors may also do heavy strength training with barbells and other equipment, but as long you’re eating nutritiously, a wide range of physical activities will contribute to the muscle mass needed for health, for balance and coordination,…
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You May Need to Quit
Armi Legge is the producer of Evidence Magazine, a collection of articles and podcasts focusing mainly on training, fat loss, and behavioral issues — including setting good goals. And a big part of setting good goals is knowing when to accept a partial success — or cut your losses. Here are his 6 signs of…
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What Makes Habits Stick?
Habits can help us build a solid foundation of good health, low stress, and readiness to act. For scientists, as Isaac Asimov noted, few discoveries are of the “Eureka!” variety but instead something closer to, “Hmm, that’s funny…” combined with having a sense of good questions to ask to figure out what’s happening. You, too,…
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Are You a Rebel?
When we are trying to establish a new habit, we are often advised to seek accountability partners of some kind. That could be a workout partner, for example, or a family member that you share (healthy) shopping and cooking tasks with. Some people benefit from working with a personal trainer, and others can go it…
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Are You a Binge Eater?
Nia Shanks has a nice post about the skills and mindset that helped her emerge from a diet–binge cycle. She emphasizes getting away from the cues that appear in “lose weight fast” pitches — like rigid, unsustainable rules and a laser focus on fat loss — in favor of thinking about positive actions you can…
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Discovery and success
jitenshasw shares her process of discovery and success — see the rest at her tumblr. No quick fixes here — just a willingness to ask herself tough questions and actively decide how she wanted to eat and move — and a journey that established the (different) way she wanted to live. This kind of change…
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Should I Do a 30-day Challenge?
There are lots of 30-day challenges floating around online, urging people to focus on their abs, “get a beach body,” or practice a skill like planking or bodyweight squats. Are they a good idea? In favor of a 30-day challenge: — Relatively brief, improving likelihood of success — A decent chunk of time, promoting a…
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A Year from Now You’ll Wish You’d Started Today
Maybe. One problem is that we sometimes don’t recognize the future self as “self” — consider the example of the young person who smokes even though they know the health risks. A stronger connection to our future self can help. That doesn’t necessarily mean “visualizing,” which can actually distract us from doing the day-to-day work…