Unlock the Hidden Obstacles Sabotaging Your Health—and How to Break Free for Good
So if you want to make your health goals more likely, Coach Kate offers this advice:
“Build an ecosystem that makes failing nearly impossible.”
When they want to make a change, many people assume that good intentions and willpower will be enough to carry them through. (And when they fail, naturally, they blame themselves for being “bad” or “weak.”)
We often forget about the context and environment that shapes our behaviors—making certain actions more likely or less likely to occur.
A recent review from Nature Reviews Psychology ranked different behavior change strategies and found that access was the number one influencer of people’s behaviors. (People who lived in neighborhoods with affordable grocers close by ate better, just like people who had to drive a long distance to the closest gym were less likely to exercise.6)
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