Are you lying to yourself?
Katie Gordon - Women's Personal Health Leadership? Dietless Living?
Women's Personal Health Leadership? Coach & Trainer | Changing Habits | Preventing Habit Relapse | Health | Lifestyle | Happiness | Creator & Founder of Dietless Living?
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I love the middle of the year.?
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June and Dec are Reality Check time?for me to see if my daily habits and behaviours are in alignment with the ambitions I've set for myself.?
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DATA QUEEN?
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For as long as I can remember I've been the kinda gal who loves to collect data.?
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I've changed many things in my life and I've always collected some kind of data about the changes I was making.?
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Unfortunately, I was tracking my?results?rather than my?behaviours.?
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BEHAVIOURS?PRODUCE THE?RESULTS?
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Tracking?results?is a poor yardstick for creating change as it?only shows success or failure.?
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Results?are either?in favour or not in favour?of a desired outcome.?
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The easiest example I can give you is from my 25 years on the yo-yo dieting hamster wheel.?
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I used to track my weight and measurements as well as keep food and exercise diaries.?
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Weight and measurements?were the result?of how well I was doing on a diet, while my food and exercise diaries only showed the result of what I ate and what exercise I did.?
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Results only told me if I was succeeding or failing at achieving my ambition of weighting less, but they?never told me why?I was succeeding or failing.?
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HINDSIGHT IS A WONDERFUL THING?
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What would've been more beneficial is what I do now, look at the results?and then ask myself how I got that result?and collect data from that to assist the transformation.?
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How many times in your life have you said “In hindsight I can see (blank), if only I'd seen that sooner”.?
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Keeping track of what you're doing, keeping the data about your thoughts, behaviours, and actions,?is purposefully giving yourself that hindsight in advance.?
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WHERE ARE YOU LYING TO YOURSELF?
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We wonderful humans have a way of lying to ourselves about what we do.?
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We don't do it on purpose, it's just how the brain works for most of us.?
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We think it's only been 2 or 3 days since we did (or didn't do) something but the reality is it's usually more like a week, 10 days, or even longer.?
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We tend to review things in our mind over the short period, say the last week or two, and?that's how we lie to ourselves.??
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It's the accumulation of data over weeks and months that tell the real story.?
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MEASURE A HABIT, CHANGE YOUR LIFE?
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If you've got ambitions to lose weight, feel more relaxed, confident, and build mental, emotional, and physical strength and endurance, you've got to have some way to measure your progress.?
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You need a way to record what you do, so you can look over it regularly to see if you're on track with the change that you want to make.?
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There are an endless array of apps and software programs these days that you can use to track anything and everything. Just make sure that if you're tracking results?that you look at them and ask yourself how you got them.?
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If you're not into tech, pen and paper is as good as anything.?
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The purpose of collecting and reviewing data isn't to berate yourself when results aren't pleasing,?the purpose is to discover for yourself what your behaviours are?so you can re-design them to give you the results that you're looking for.?
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Be honest with yourself. If you're not?achieving your ambitions, track your behaviours, decide where you need to improve, work out a way to do it better and keep moving forward.?
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Personal Health Leadership??is about?having the capacity to lead one's own life?in such a way that your health and well-being are not compromised by work, family, or other responsibilities and the pressures and challenges of life.??
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June is a great time to begin. Starting now means you are done by Christmas and ready to step into summer feeling lighter, brighter, healthier and happier.?
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Give me a call,?let’s get it started this week.? ?
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You start here today?by booking in?for a?private consultation session .?
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