81 Days | Lifestyle Event Exercise

As your identifying habits in your life, you're finding that some habits lead you AWAY from where you really want to go.  We are either practicing the Habits of Health or the Habits of Disease. 

I'm borrowing an excerpt from Dr. A's Stop.Challenge.Choose Transformation, which came in my email yesterday.  If you haven't signed up for this awesome opportunity, do so today at www.stopchallengechoose.com and put my name (or Hope's name, or the name of the health coach who invited you here) in the health coach column.  You'll be so encouraged!

Lifestyle Event Exercise

Let's do a little exercise!  No...you don't have to go to the gym for this one.

List five lifestyle events in your journal that you'd like to experience. These could be as large as hiking the Appalachian Trail or as everyday as playing touch football with your kids. 

Next, list the habits that support or prevent these lifestyle events from happening. As an example, you may not be exercising, so you quickly get short of breath when you try to play sports with your children.

Identify Stress Habits

Oftentimes, our worst habits are triggered by negative events, and we turn to certain behaviors to comfort us, like overeating or oversleeping. 

For this exercise, list five habits that you rely on when you're upset, stressed, depressed, angry, sad, bored, tired, or overworked.

Reprogram Your Habits

Now that we have identified your goals and some of your worst habits, we have a picture of where we are... and you've already been spending a lot of time DREAMING about where we want to be. 

So...

As we continue on these 90 days together, we will make the steady transition into a healthier lifestyle together.  I'm so proud of you already!

Feel free to share your answers to the exercise with the team, if you feel comfortable with that.