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There Are ONLY Two Behaviors
A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Your Waistline
EVERYTHING boils down to only 2 behaviors: doing and not doing. That’s it! No gray area; it’s one or the other. And for the queen of finding middle ground, the in-between, the gray, it’s A LOT for me to say that does not exist here.
Check in with yourself. Are you doing or not doing? It’s easy to say we want to do something… but then it may be hard to actually do it! Whether you call it a commitment, an intention, a goal, or simply something you want, we all have ideas of the outcomes we desire. Note: what we identify are the results. The next step is to break-down those goals into smaller steps, daily tasks.
For example let’s say you want a new job. The intermediate goals may be updating your resume or CV, researching available companies, and applying to relevant roles. Daily, though, we often feel like we have to talk ourselves into these steps. They often feel like extra tasks weighing on us, and we must create rewards or consequences to convince ourselves to be accountable. It can be exhausting!
Here’s the thing: we often underestimate the daily work we are already doing. We tend to ignore all the work we’re doing every day, to focus on everything we’re not doing. Assessing whether we’re ‘doing’ or ‘not doing’ can help us recognize…
