Two Quick Tips on Physical and Relational Health

Half of the week I work as a health coach for the Kaiser Permanente Health Engagement and Wellness Services Department.
I do coaching for quitting tobacco, weight management, healthy eating, physical activity, preventing diabetes and heart disease, healthy sleep, stress and pain management.

I help folks develop healthy habits and overcome their challenges with motivation, consistency, energy and negative self-talk.

Here are two quick tips that help counter being stuck or overwhelmed with where to begin.

1) Just because something didn’t work for you in the past doesn’t mean it won’t work for you now (like going to the gym or eating vegetables, going to church or connecting with a small group, communicating boundaries or confronting someone).
If you want to be healthy, do what healthy people do.

Don’t stop short of figuring out what didn’t work and doing something about it.
Don’t wait till you have everything figured out to begin. 
Starting and just doing something, is a huge part of overcoming.
Do the next best, the next brave, thing. Not the next big thing, start small.


2) Don’t get stuck on what doesn’t work, doesn’t fit for your schedule, the unanswered questions of “What should I do? What if I don’t pick the right thing?”, how you feel, that you’re alone.


Focus on what will work, what does work for your schedule, what you want and need, where you are confident and ready to begin, and find your people (they are out there!).

Here are a few resources on starting small, change and setting goals:

How to Break Habits by Charles Duhigg

Short workbooks for health topics like healthy eating and stress management

Personal Action Plan, a SMART goal-setting worksheet

Overcoming barriers and excuses from Make Your Day Harder.com

You can sign up to get my free short ebook on Overcoming The Gap Between Where You Are And Where You Want To Be here.

Coaching Giveaway: Day 5 Blog Like A Pro Challenge

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Happy Friday!  It’s Day 5 of Jeff Goin’s Blog Like A Pro Challenge.

I was sick yesterday and didn’t find a place to guest post for Day 4’s challenge. Hopefully will be able to do that someday soon.

For today’s challenge Jeff encouraged us to Be Generous and give something away.

I’m still working on my short ebook and will be giving that away to folks who sign up for updates to the blog but in the meantime I would like to offer a 45 min coaching call for anyone who wants to work on any goal they are thinking about, or are currently, working on.

My ebook will be on Bridging the Gap between where you are and where you want to be.  You can get a little preview of it, I taught an adult education class recently at church on it.

Regardless of where you are in the process of changing something in your life I can help you take the next step.  You may know what you want to change and work on.  You may not.

I’ll help you explore your values and strengths, your motivation, your barriers, the resources and support you have available, your commitment and help choose the next best steps.

I do this dozens of times a week with my patients and clients.

If you’re interested just comment below.  If you’re brave, feel free to share what you’d like to work on, even if you’re just thinking about it.  If you’ve got a handful of things and don’t know where to start I can help you narrow it down, prioritize and pick one.

I’ll pick winner at random, Sunday evening 3/20/16.

If there’s enough interest, I may do a group coaching video on Periscope, so let me know if you’d be interested in that too.

You can view some of the Periscopes I’ve done here on my Katch Page.