Ready For The Win? [Self-Love Letter]
Hi Byte Wellness Fam,
How are you feeling?
I’m pumped- in no small part because our community has made some major progress during our #NewYearNewMoves Challenge (which we’re wrapping up in 3 days)!
One bit of progress I’ll happily highlight comes from our long-time member, Teri!
She shared with us this past week that she reached a movement goal she’s been working toward for more than a year…one whole year!
When is the last time you spent a year dedicated to bettering yourself, working past trials and climbing over barriers? Can you recall the sense of achievement you feel when that promise you’ve kept to yourself finally bears fruit?
That’s the energy Teri gave in our workshop this week. Click below to watch the recording of our last #PhyteWellWednesday Workshop to hear her share how she got here. Text 1(866)717-1919 to join the text thread and get invites to the weekly Workshops.
Better Together
As excited as I am for Teri’s health victory, I’m even more pumped that it was a collective win! Teri got here with the help of our other community members who offered valuable support in helping her re-frame her goals. In particular, Donna shared her long personal experience with setting and reaching new exercise goals and helped Teri break her workout goal into smaller more do-able steps.
Let’s run with that spirit of reaching our wellness goals! Let’s keep discovering new ways of thriving! In a world with so many man-made challenges, let’s keep building our own natural resources!
We deserve that much from ourselves and each other.
Ready, SET, Goal!
As we wrap up the #NewYearNewMoves Challenge and continue to build on our daily movement habits, let’s make sure we’re as diligent about SHIFTING habits as we are about LEARNING what habits to shift.
To do that, we’re relying on habit science (yes that’s a real thing). In academic circles habit science is called behavioral psychology or behavioral economics. Habit science is the study of how our human brains make decisions (consciously and subconsciously) about what to do and what not to do. We’ve got to understand the habit-building machinery if we’re going to use it to our benefit.
Some popular authors and researchers have written about Habit Science in very simple but powerful ways.
Check below for our goal-setting pathway based on that science:
1) Get Ready. Set your goal and lay out the terms of your practice: Use the MyTERMS goal-setting framework
a) ) Set up your Self-Check: Am I practicing my wellness activity as planned?
—> NO: If not practicing as planned, trouble-shoot to figure out why. Get SET
Is your wellness practice actually SCHEDULED?
Is your wellness practice EASY enough?
Have you built in a TRIGGER to make your wellness practice automatic? A trigger can be as simple as setting an alarm or habit-stacking that involves other events, people, or places).
—> YES: If you ARE doing your practice as planned, give yourself a huge round of applause! Tell yourself how great you are after every victory! You’re well on your way to reaching your goals.
Th theme of our #NewYearNewMoves Challenge has been Self-Compassion. As counterintuitive as it sounds, being gentle and honest with ourselves (especially around our shortcomings) helps us make lasting changes in our habits.
In the last month of the challenge (and in our past wellness goals), how much have we denied our shortcomings or made excuses for them? Rather than make excuses, how much have we looked for actual reasons for our shortcomings? Have we been able to accept (not reject) those reasons in order to troubleshoot how to solve them?
Let us know!
Meanwhile…
Happy Healthy Living,
Dr. Wuse