Age Better with Barbara Hannah Grufferman

How to Make Healthy Habits Stick at Any Age EP 11


Listen Later

Having healthy habits shouldn’t feel like a luxury or like something far out of reach. Sleep, exercise, and healthy home cooked meals are attainable and important for your overall well-being at any age. 

A listener of the show wrote in and asked for tips on how to get a new healthy habit to stick. I think this is a brilliant question and one lots of us can benefit from. I’ve a learned quite a bit about getting new healthy habits to stick when I picked up the habit of running and training for marathons years ago. 

Today I’m excited to share with you 10 tips for how you can make new healthy habits stick. I want you to feel energetic, confident, healthy, and happy every day. These tips will help you get from barely doing to doing something healthy every day without even thinking about it. 

10 Tips to Get Those Habits to Stick: 

  1. Remember the rewards 
  2. Take baby steps and avoid overwhelm  
  3. Let one good habit lead to another 
  4. Make it a public commitment 
  5. Give yourself time 
  6. Plan on it and schedule it 
  7. Set yourself up for success 
  8. Compare and contrast (know your progress) 
  9. Have a clear goal in mind 
  10. Love yourself enough to care 
  11.  

    Bad habits are not the easiest thing in the world to change., and good habits seem to be the most difficult to adopt. Habits shape your life and are ingrained in your day to day decisions and actions even when you don’t think about them. Although they are involuntary and often the result of living life on autopilot because you’ve done the same process so many times, you’ve taken the same route to work, had the same argument over and over, that your reactions, your patterns of behavior, and your conversations are habitual. 

    “The small steps you take now will have a huge impact on your body and life almost instantly, and down the road as well.” -Barbara Hannah Grufferman 

    Making your new healthy habits stick is possible with the tips I’ve provided, however it’s important to know that life’s twists and turns are not a predictable maybe, but they are pretty much guaranteed. These unexpected turns in life will throw your best habits out the window, so be prepared and know that it’s okay. 

    In this episode I share how I was taken off track with my healthy habits a few times for unforeseen events, but I was able to get back on track. Tip number 10 was the game changer, and taking small steps towards the habits that gave me health, stamina, energy, confidence and joy was key. If you fall off, life gets in the way, get back to habits that matter with self-love. 

    “Summon the one habit that rules them all. Self-love and take a single small step in the only direction you want to go, forward.”  

    -Barbara Hannah Grufferman 

    Connect with Barbara:  

    Love Your Age: The Small-Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life 

    Barbara Hannah Grufferman website 

    Instagram @Barbara Hannah Grufferman  

    Facebook @BarbaraHannahGruffermanAuthor 

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Age Better with Barbara Hannah GruffermanBy Barbara Hannah Grufferman

    • 4.8
    • 4.8
    • 4.8
    • 4.8
    • 4.8

    4.8

    38 ratings


    More shows like Age Better with Barbara Hannah Grufferman

    View all
    The Flipping 50 Show by Debra Atkinson

    The Flipping 50 Show

    459 Listeners

    Well Beyond 40 by JJ Virgin

    Well Beyond 40

    1,085 Listeners

    HOT For Your Health by Dr. Vonda Wright

    HOT For Your Health

    145 Listeners

    The mindbodygreen Podcast by mindbodygreen

    The mindbodygreen Podcast

    2,082 Listeners

    Energized with Dr. Mariza by Dr. Mariza Snyder

    Energized with Dr. Mariza

    985 Listeners

    The Proof with Simon Hill by Live better for longer

    The Proof with Simon Hill

    2,606 Listeners

    The Dr. Hyman Show by Dr. Mark Hyman

    The Dr. Hyman Show

    9,358 Listeners

    The Peter Attia Drive by Peter Attia, MD

    The Peter Attia Drive

    7,944 Listeners

    The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast by Kevin Ellis

    The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast

    708 Listeners

    You Are Not Broken by Kelly Casperson, MD

    You Are Not Broken

    922 Listeners

    A Certain Age by Katie Fogarty

    A Certain Age

    233 Listeners

    Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More by Lauren Streicher, MD

    Dr. Streicher’s Inside Information: Menopause, Midlife, and More

    363 Listeners

    The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

    The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show

    1,132 Listeners

    The Mel Robbins Podcast by Mel Robbins

    The Mel Robbins Podcast

    20,546 Listeners

    The Body Pod by The Body Pod

    The Body Pod

    89 Listeners