It’s important to choose the right approach for you, as you look to practice healthier habits that can lead to reduced stress. Do you have a little extra time that you’re looking to maximize? Can you reprioritize a few things and make time in your schedule? Or are you simply out of time and can’t …
Trainer Advice
Prioritize Your Time
In order to free up time in your life, you need to decide what’s important to you by prioritizing. But prioritizing is just as much about what we’re NOT going to do. Too many times, we just continue to add more and more to our schedules by never saying “no.” You can’t effectively take care …
Treat Your Time Like Your Money
Consider this…time is a resource. Just like money. And the same things that prevent us from making objective decisions about our money, can affect our decisions on how we spend our time as well. What extra activities are you doing now simply because you’re used to it, it’s what you’ve invested time into for a …
Make Habits Appealing
Consistent habits are sustainable, and sustainable habits must be appealing. If you don’t want to do something, you probably won’t do it. So how should you initiate an action that you don’t necessarily enjoy to begin with? Well, try asking how you can initiate an action that you don’t necessarily despise instead. Can you add …
Realistic Habits
Consistency is key, and the way to stay consistent is to make your habits sustainable. A sustainable habit is a realistic habit, and your habits have to be realistic for you. Be realistic about the change you can make. Make gradual changes that are challenging enough to actually be a goal.