Coaching Healthy Lifestyle

How are you doing on those New Year’s resolutions?

Perhaps you wanted to shed holiday pounds through diet and exercise and have a healthier lifestyle?

If your motivation has taken a hit, these apps for self-coaching provide options for measuring your health-related activities. This type of self-observation delivers invaluable feedback and has been labeled the “quantified self” movement.

While I have not applied all of these to my life, I have seen firsthand how much impact logging your behavior can have. You can no longer hide behind approximations, but discover the truth behind your perceptions of your behavior. By getting data feedback you gain support and accountability. This increases your chances of success in much the same way as life coaching. Any new objective now has additional knowledge behind it that will allow you to make more realistic commitments.

Below, I describe the main features of health apps for self-coaching that will help you establish new habits.

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What are the things that bother you? We all know the things that we dislike doing. Here are the key ones that sometimes get to me, and five possible ways to minimize their negative impact, have fun, and make it a breeze.

Cleaning (the toilet!): Tidying up is an inevitable chore. We create a mess – just by living – eating, sleeping, and exercising. Our daily functioning generates pots to clean, beds to make, and clothes to wash, and this repetition can become tedious.

Maintenance: Repairing and replacing things that break or get worn out, or simply doing what needs to be done to maintain the status quo. Servicing our car; getting the oil changed and tires rotated. Keeping the yard tidy; raking leaves, and pruning hedges. Updating our wardrobe; removing tired, or unloved clothes. Painting our home inside and out … and the list goes on.

Irritating interactions: Spending time with maddening individuals. People who drain you because of their opinions, requests, or behaviors. These are those that take your time and energy and leave you with feelings of being used or abused.

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Have you ever heard the metaphor “Life is a game that has to be played?” The key assumption embedded in this statement is that there is one game that everyone is playing. On the face of it, this might appear to be correct, but it is much more multidimensional than that.

The game of life may have similarities from one person to another depending on your age. However, your game pieces, arena, and instructions are as unique as you are. It is also totally up to you who you choose to play with. And, also whether you choose to play for a while by their rules.

Life is a game, but here’s the fun part: you are engaging with what excites you. There’s no one-size-fits-all rulebook—the game pieces, the arena, and instructions are all uniquely yours to create! And the best part? You are free to decide how you respond to everything that comes your way. You have the power of free will, so every choice you make is yours to shape your experience.

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