What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

It’s our mission to help you be your healthiest self and our programme is designed to support you in starting and sticking to healthy habits. Your health goals may be about prevention, like scheduling your healthcare screenings or engaging in healthy lifestyle habits like healthy eating. One key step in starting a healthy habit is finding your aims. Knowing the reasons why you want to make a change can help motivate you and keep you on track, especially in difficult moments.

Are you ready to find your reasons, examine them, and get personal? Then read on.

What are your dreams? What is your vision of a healthy you? Why do you want to be healthy? When forming a healthy habit, start with a vision statement and a visual image of what your dreams look like. Building a vision board can also help you form a clear picture of what healthy means to you.

Once you have a vison of where you want to be, bucketing your why according to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be helpful in finding what makes you tick. Let’s start with extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivators are outside of your inner-self and so things like avoiding punishment, receiving praise or recognition, or receiving a more tangible reward like money, a gift certificate or other goods are examples. Yet, when you are motivated intrinsically, the motivation comes from within; you do it because you love what you’re doing, feel passionate about it, find it intriguing, challenging, or simply enjoy it. When you think about what has kept you on course with past successes, ask yourself: were you motivated intrinsically or extrinsically? You’ll likely have continued success in starting and keeping to your healthy habits if you have both types of motivational support along the way.

Often your personal values provide you with the motivation to start a healthy habit. Let’s explore them. These factors – or guiding principles – influence your behaviour. When you have a better sense of your personal guiding principles, you’ll find learning your reasons is easier. You’ll also find when you align your values with your goals that you’ll be more likely to stay motivated to reach them. Values may include health, beauty, faith, excellence, ambition, success, productivity, authority, cleanliness, achievement, independence, self-discipline, respect, loyalty, forgiveness, helpfulness, excitement, bravery, tradition, security, fairness, happiness, honour, modesty, wisdom, family, friendships, freedom, creativity, courage, safety, peace, social justice, protection of the environment and wealth. Now think about your top 10 values and how they influence your behavior. See if they are aligned with your health goals and can become motivational influences going forward.

One final step that may make finding your reasons a bit easier is to analyze the common reasons for starting a healthy habit. Sometimes in reviewing what others have found helpful can also assist you. Some common reasons that have motivated others to start a healthy behavior include:

• To live longer and healthier

• To save money

• My doctor recommended it

• To take control of my life

• I‘m expecting a baby

• For my family and friends

• To set a good example

• To look better

• To feel better mentally

Remember to revisit this exercise in learning your reasons when you need the motivation to start a new healthy habit, or to remind yourself why you should keep focused if you’re starting to lose momentum.

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

It’s our mission to help you be your healthiest self and our programme is designed to support you in starting and sticking to healthy habits. Your health goals may be about prevention, like scheduling your healthcare screenings or engaging in healthy lifestyle habits like healthy eating. One key step in starting a healthy habit is finding your aims. Knowing the reasons why you want to make a change can help motivate you and keep you on track, especially in difficult moments.

Are you ready to find your reasons, examine them, and get personal? Then read on.

What are your dreams? What is your vision of a healthy you? Why do you want to be healthy? When forming a healthy habit, start with a vision statement and a visual image of what your dreams look like. Building a vision board can also help you form a clear picture of what healthy means to you.

Once you have a vison of where you want to be, bucketing your why according to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be helpful in finding what makes you tick. Let’s start with extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivators are outside of your inner-self and so things like avoiding punishment, receiving praise or recognition, or receiving a more tangible reward like money, a gift certificate or other goods are examples. Yet, when you are motivated intrinsically, the motivation comes from within; you do it because you love what you’re doing, feel passionate about it, find it intriguing, challenging, or simply enjoy it. When you think about what has kept you on course with past successes, ask yourself: were you motivated intrinsically or extrinsically? You’ll likely have continued success in starting and keeping to your healthy habits if you have both types of motivational support along the way.

Often your personal values provide you with the motivation to start a healthy habit. Let’s explore them. These factors – or guiding principles – influence your behaviour. When you have a better sense of your personal guiding principles, you’ll find learning your reasons is easier. You’ll also find when you align your values with your goals that you’ll be more likely to stay motivated to reach them. Values may include health, beauty, faith, excellence, ambition, success, productivity, authority, cleanliness, achievement, independence, self-discipline, respect, loyalty, forgiveness, helpfulness, excitement, bravery, tradition, security, fairness, happiness, honour, modesty, wisdom, family, friendships, freedom, creativity, courage, safety, peace, social justice, protection of the environment and wealth. Now think about your top 10 values and how they influence your behavior. See if they are aligned with your health goals and can become motivational influences going forward.

One final step that may make finding your reasons a bit easier is to analyze the common reasons for starting a healthy habit. Sometimes in reviewing what others have found helpful can also assist you. Some common reasons that have motivated others to start a healthy behavior include:

• To live longer and healthier

• To save money

• My doctor recommended it

• To take control of my life

• I‘m expecting a baby

• For my family and friends

• To set a good example

• To look better

• To feel better mentally

Remember to revisit this exercise in learning your reasons when you need the motivation to start a new healthy habit, or to remind yourself why you should keep focused if you’re starting to lose momentum.

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

It’s our mission to help you be your healthiest self and our programme is designed to support you in starting and sticking to healthy habits. Your health goals may be about prevention, like scheduling your healthcare screenings or engaging in healthy lifestyle habits like healthy eating. One key step in starting a healthy habit is finding your aims. Knowing the reasons why you want to make a change can help motivate you and keep you on track, especially in difficult moments.

Are you ready to find your reasons, examine them, and get personal? Then read on.

What are your dreams? What is your vision of a healthy you? Why do you want to be healthy? When forming a healthy habit, start with a vision statement and a visual image of what your dreams look like. Building a vision board can also help you form a clear picture of what healthy means to you.

Once you have a vison of where you want to be, bucketing your why according to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be helpful in finding what makes you tick. Let’s start with extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivators are outside of your inner-self and so things like avoiding punishment, receiving praise or recognition, or receiving a more tangible reward like money, a gift certificate or other goods are examples. Yet, when you are motivated intrinsically, the motivation comes from within; you do it because you love what you’re doing, feel passionate about it, find it intriguing, challenging, or simply enjoy it. When you think about what has kept you on course with past successes, ask yourself: were you motivated intrinsically or extrinsically? You’ll likely have continued success in starting and keeping to your healthy habits if you have both types of motivational support along the way.

Often your personal values provide you with the motivation to start a healthy habit. Let’s explore them. These factors – or guiding principles – influence your behaviour. When you have a better sense of your personal guiding principles, you’ll find learning your reasons is easier. You’ll also find when you align your values with your goals that you’ll be more likely to stay motivated to reach them. Values may include health, beauty, faith, excellence, ambition, success, productivity, authority, cleanliness, achievement, independence, self-discipline, respect, loyalty, forgiveness, helpfulness, excitement, bravery, tradition, security, fairness, happiness, honour, modesty, wisdom, family, friendships, freedom, creativity, courage, safety, peace, social justice, protection of the environment and wealth. Now think about your top 10 values and how they influence your behavior. See if they are aligned with your health goals and can become motivational influences going forward.

One final step that may make finding your reasons a bit easier is to analyze the common reasons for starting a healthy habit. Sometimes in reviewing what others have found helpful can also assist you. Some common reasons that have motivated others to start a healthy behavior include:

• To live longer and healthier

• To save money

• My doctor recommended it

• To take control of my life

• I‘m expecting a baby

• For my family and friends

• To set a good example

• To look better

• To feel better mentally

Remember to revisit this exercise in learning your reasons when you need the motivation to start a new healthy habit, or to remind yourself why you should keep focused if you’re starting to lose momentum.

What are your reasons to start a healthy habit?

It’s our mission to help you be your healthiest self and our programme is designed to support you in starting and sticking to healthy habits. Your health goals may be about prevention, like scheduling your healthcare screenings or engaging in healthy lifestyle habits like healthy eating. One key step in starting a healthy habit is finding your aims. Knowing the reasons why you want to make a change can help motivate you and keep you on track, especially in difficult moments.

Are you ready to find your reasons, examine them, and get personal? Then read on.

What are your dreams? What is your vision of a healthy you? Why do you want to be healthy? When forming a healthy habit, start with a vision statement and a visual image of what your dreams look like. Building a vision board can also help you form a clear picture of what healthy means to you.

Once you have a vison of where you want to be, bucketing your why according to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be helpful in finding what makes you tick. Let’s start with extrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivators are outside of your inner-self and so things like avoiding punishment, receiving praise or recognition, or receiving a more tangible reward like money, a gift certificate or other goods are examples. Yet, when you are motivated intrinsically, the motivation comes from within; you do it because you love what you’re doing, feel passionate about it, find it intriguing, challenging, or simply enjoy it. When you think about what has kept you on course with past successes, ask yourself: were you motivated intrinsically or extrinsically? You’ll likely have continued success in starting and keeping to your healthy habits if you have both types of motivational support along the way.

Often your personal values provide you with the motivation to start a healthy habit. Let’s explore them. These factors – or guiding principles – influence your behaviour. When you have a better sense of your personal guiding principles, you’ll find learning your reasons is easier. You’ll also find when you align your values with your goals that you’ll be more likely to stay motivated to reach them. Values may include health, beauty, faith, excellence, ambition, success, productivity, authority, cleanliness, achievement, independence, self-discipline, respect, loyalty, forgiveness, helpfulness, excitement, bravery, tradition, security, fairness, happiness, honour, modesty, wisdom, family, friendships, freedom, creativity, courage, safety, peace, social justice, protection of the environment and wealth. Now think about your top 10 values and how they influence your behavior. See if they are aligned with your health goals and can become motivational influences going forward.

One final step that may make finding your reasons a bit easier is to analyze the common reasons for starting a healthy habit. Sometimes in reviewing what others have found helpful can also assist you. Some common reasons that have motivated others to start a healthy behavior include:

• To live longer and healthier

• To save money

• My doctor recommended it

• To take control of my life

• I‘m expecting a baby

• For my family and friends

• To set a good example

• To look better

• To feel better mentally

Remember to revisit this exercise in learning your reasons when you need the motivation to start a new healthy habit, or to remind yourself why you should keep focused if you’re starting to lose momentum.