Mean the Routine

Prioritize: "To treat something as more important than something else" (Oxford Languages on Google). What do you prioritize as more important during the Holidays when there is more to do and the same amount of time? Insane. But, even though it may feel overwhelming, this time of year is also so amazing. It is exciting and refreshing. If you want to move your needle closer to success and calmness during the Holidays and further from overwhelm and irritation, check out this episode!

Do you feel like October through December fly by? Do you find it hard to keep up with your normal activities plus the added tasks around the Holidays? So how are you supposed to maintain focus on your health and wellness goals? This episode will give you some inspiration to help you stay focused on success and the growth you want to see for yourself.

Most of us do a lot of shoulds when it comes to working on goals. But are those shoulds helping or hurting? Long term motivation doesn't tend to come from internally beating ourselves up. Habits take time to build and when we come from a place of achievement versus a place of failure, we are more likely to build those habits we want and reach our goals. This episode will give you four steps to stop beating yourself up so you can see results and come from a place of success every day.

Maybe this episode should have been the first I recorded because as a therapist, I noticed that people tend to do something that they don't necessarily see progress from longer if they understand why they're doing it. So when I talk with you about all these tips about how to stick with your goals, but you're not seeing progress, it's easy to slip off. This episode will dive into the workings of a key component of the brain that is responsible for survival and help you understand why it is so hard to stick with new habits, giving you knowledge and therefore power and motivation to keep going until you DO see results. 

It's not so hard engaging in new habits and enjoying them. In fact it can be quite simple. It's time to kick old habits aside and change our mindset. It's time to feel successful and proud of your accomplishments. It's time to reach those health and wellness habits and make your desired lifestyle a reality. This episode will give you three tips to tricking the brain into thinking you enjoy what you're doing until you do enjoy these new habits. No excuses my friend. It is time.

Enjoying what you are doing is the trick to consistency. When we don’t enjoy something we are much less likely to stick with it in the long run. Finding something you enjoy will make it much easier to stick with it. But even when you enjoy something it doesn’t mean it will be a piece of cake. Today we're going to dive into HOW to enjoy new activities we’re doing even if they don't seem fun right now.

One of the reasons we don't stick with our goals is we are not listening to our body and aligning our goals with when we have the right energy to do so. Doing new things takes a lot of mental energy and if we're depleted of this, we don't tend to enjoy doing the new habit, thus we don't stick with it over time. In this episode you'll learn three tips to conquering your energy levels so you are more likely to enjoy your new habits and therefore stick with them.

Have you found that you've tried and fallen away from your goals many times? If so, I wonder if your planning process could be improved. What is your self-talk like? What are your expectations of yourself? How was your goal specified? Did you have any contingencies in place? There are many ways we can improve our chances of meeting our goals, but planning is always at the root of success. Check out this episode for three tips on how to make planning more effective and reach your goals!

You are who you are based on consistent thoughts and actions of the past. You will be who you will be based on what you think and do today. If you want to be someone different, you have to do something different. Starting with your thoughts can help. You may run or meal prep if you force yourself to do so, but what if you make the experience interesting and fun? You're more likely to WANT to do it versus feeling like it's a chore. This episode will give you five tips to improve your thoughts so they work for you instead of against you and give you a higher chance of success with your goal.

This episode is a replay of a topic many of my clients find super helpful. In this episode, you're going to get 1 tip to staying consistent with your goals by learning how to boot habitual negative thoughts out of your head. The consistent thoughts we have whether helpful, unhelpful, encouraging or criticizing are a habit learned by our experiences and can be unlearned. To reach your goals, your thoughts play a huge role. How are your thoughts affecting your ability to reach your goals? Check out this episode for a cool tip to retrain your brain.