If You’re Avoiding Your One Thing

Listen to the article, "A Two-Minute Bedtime Habit That Measurably Reduces Burnout." Exhausted health care workers practiced for fifteen days, and a year later, researchers could still detect the benefits.

Listen to the article, "How to Avoid Avoidant Behavior." Why is this simple thing so hard? Tasks like saying “no” take thirty seconds. Here’s why they can still feel impossible, and what helps.

Listen to the article, "How to Deal with Discomfort." The most effective response to a hard feeling is the one your instincts will fight.

Listen to the article, "What to Do When you Lose your Streak." Repeat after me: All. Is. Not. Lost. When researchers tested more than 50 programs designed to get people to exercise, the winner didn't reward showing up at the gym; it rewarded coming back after an absence.

Wanting to make a change might get you to the starting line, but other people are the secret sauce for staying in the game.

Being an effective "accountability partner" is about coaching rather than policing. Most of us unintentionally undermine the people we are trying to support. A good accountability partner asks more than they tell, celebrates more than they remind, and never, ever "shoulds" on you.

This article, “How an Ideal Ordinary Day Can Help You Follow Through on Your Best Intentions,” gives you a method for stacking HIBs by designating anchors for several habits all at once.

This article, “How to Get Into a Habit Faster, According to Research” will give you an idea for how long you’ll need to keep a single HIB/One Thing before it starts to feel automatic. It takes anywhere from 18 to 254 days to form a habit; here’s how to land on the fast end.

One of the first things you’ll do in the Annosa app is identify what you want to feel more of in your life; some background on that is in “September Is the New January”. This article also covers the second thing you’ll do in the app: identify a role you play in your life that energizes you.

This article provides some background on Lifestyle Medicine. The Annosa program is considered an “Intensive Therapeutic Lifestyle Change” program by healthcare providers, similar to the program in the Dr. Dean Ornish trials referenced in the article.