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  • Thinking About Change The fitness industry is full of people who boil “it” down to “one thing.” It’s “all about motivation.” “You either Do It, or you Don’t.” “If it’s important, you’ll find a way.” But if there’s one thing for sure, it’s never just one thing. The transtheoretical model (TTM) was developed in the…

  • Bri at Run Lift Yoga has issued a challenge — post a “real gym selfie”, by which she means a smiling face (instead of a painfully carefully lit and posed definition shot). She notes that the proliferation of carefully staged shots can have a similar, demoralizing impact on viewers that airbrushed media images have, and…

  • Enough with the Negative Self-Talk We are more likely to believe something we’ve heard before. It’s a cognitive bias — our brains do a lot of pattern-matching, trying to save us time so we can get around in the world efficiently, and they give priority to things that have been repeated, more readily believing or…

  • How to Set Good Short-term Goals Concrete is better. “I will take a 10-minute walk at least twice a day” is better than “I will get more exercise.” Simple is better. “I will exercise at least 10 minutes, at least twice a day, even if it’s just a walk or two” is better than “I…

  • I have to admit, I don’t love this one. I sometimes see this notion phrased as “do something that scares you,” or even “if it doesn’t scare you, it’s not a big enough goal,” but not all of us are cut out to be scared. Fear hinders more changes than it fosters. We have to…