Changing habits
How to change your habits Routine, ingrained actions can have a powerful impact on our lives. Psychologist Mary Grogan explains how to take control and change your habits. Around this time of year (December), people start reflecting on the year that was and making plans for the coming year. Many articles start appearing in popular…
Developing a healthy relationship with food When I used to give seminars on how to develop a healthy relationship with food, I would often take in a packet of chips and some chocolate and place them at the front of the room. Comments from the participants would start: “Don’t let me see that chocolate,” “Oh…
Faced with overload: a need to find focus by Tony Schwartz What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, before you even brush your teeth? Is it checking the e-mail that’s flooded into your inbox overnight? Does the pull feel increasingly irresistible, even Pavlovian? Do you get so immersed in…
I recently read a book called “Switch” by Chip and Dan Heath. I think it has such a good central idea that I thought I would share it. One of the main ideas of the book is that knowledge is not enough to change behaviour. In their words “we have all encountered crazy shrinks, obese…
Here is a summary of psychological research about why we eat more than we think. The details of the experiments can be found in “Mindless Eating” by Brian Wansink. 1) Larger portions make us eat more (even if we’re not aware of it). 2) If you give people a larger package of anything, they will…
Creating a positive reflection is all about changing the voice within. Start by shaping up your thinking and enjoying what you’ve got. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? When you first heard this question from the evil queen in Snow White, you were likely being read to as a child.…
While statistics confirm that most resolutions will never be kept, a few simple techniques may improve your chances of success. Oscar Wilde once wrote, ‘A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.’ And while statistics confirm that most resolutions will never be kept, new research shows that a…