Jeff Novick (And Dr. McDougall) for the Win!

Please, go read this post by Jeff Novick. Here's but a small sample. For the "meat" of the post, go to the link.

Creating Healthy Habits

by JeffN » Wed May 30, 2018 12:15 pm

I have often discussed the importance of simplicity in achieving and maintaining both short-term and long-term success. I am going to add one more issue that often gets missed in this discussion and that is the issue of habits.

What we are trying to do here is learn new behaviors and make them into habits. We are trying to break old unhealthy habits and develop new healthy ones. These include learning to be more active and learning to eat healthier. And, while there are several keys to developing a new habit, two of the most important ones are consistency and repetition. While simplicity is important, so is consistency and repetition.

This issue has come up quite a bit lately in discussions and counseling with clients and I believe it is partly (if not largely) due to the influence of social media. Social media is giving us access to an enormous amount, and constant flow, of information.

In the last few years, there have been many online “summits, documentaries and symposiums,” which seem to attract a lot of attention and viewers. I have been invited to be a speaker to many of them and have always declined. I am not a fan of them for many reasons.