Change Academy

For example, you’ve decided you want to start exercising after work, or you’ve resolved to not drink wine on the weekdays or to cut out the pastry that you always order with your afternoon coffee. Yo…

Quitting can start to become a habit--or even part of our identity. But so can Not Quitting. Which habit and identity would you rather strengthen?

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Takeaways:

• Frustration is not necessarily a sign that things aren’t going well. 
• By working through frustration, you have created more durable learning.
• Reframing the feeling of frustration as a positiv…

When people are trying to achieve a certain goal or outcome, they often look for a regimen to follow. After all, that's how we've been trained to approach these things. And while a set of rules or in…

A lot of us have a vision of ourselves in 10 or 20 years. But what we don't realize is that future is (or isn't) being created RIGHT NOW. Every day.  We think we're going to get started on our health…

The reason we asked Marieka on this episode is that we think it’s really valuable for you, someone who is in the process of making big changes (in any area of your life) to have concrete evidence tha…

Questions to Ask Yourself

• How invested are you in success/solutions (as opposed to excuses/rationalizations)? Do you really want to create this outcome or do you just want to say you “tried”? 
• What hav…

You’re listening to the Change Academy podcast, so we assume that you have some sort of aspirations or goals. Things about your health or your habits or your lifestyle that you’d like to change. A vi…

You may remember meeting Molly in episode #49 of the Change Academy, where we talked about changing the unchangeable.

Molly first shared these basketball life lessons with her newsletter subscribers a…

Takeaways:

1. You can’t say yes to everything–and if you don’t choose what you are saying yes (and no) to, someone (or something) else probably will.
2. Setting (and maintaining) boundaries with friends fami…

As much as we like to pretend otherwise, time is finite. Maybe not in a quantum physics sense but in a practical sense: We have only 24 hours to spend every day, and we also have an unknown but finit…

If our daily choices and actions are badly out of alignment with our goals, we are literally working against ourselves. We’re likely to be frustrated by a lack of progress. We may also be putting ext…

We probably don’t need to remind you that skimping on sleep can contribute to an increased appetite, increased levels of stress (cortisol), a decrease in energy to do the things you enjoy, and so on.…

Key Takeaways:

• The stress response is not a bad thing; it’s what allows us to respond to challenges, both “good” and “bad.”
• Invoking the parasympathetic nervous system can help keep our body and brain …

Welcome to part four of the 50,000 Mile Tuneup Series. In previous episodes, we checked into our beliefs and expectations about aging, updated our goals, and clarified our values and priorities. We t…

How does the way we move and maintain our bodies change as we go through life? How can we set ourselves up to keep our engines running smoothly and powerfully, even as our mileage gets higher? 

Takeaw…

This information will serve a sort of GPS, helping us make choices and design habits that steer us toward our desired destination.

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Healthy habits like eating well, getting some exercise, and managing stress go a long way toward keeping your body and life running smoothly  But every once in a while, our lives can benefit from a m…

We’d l ike to invite you to join us for something we’re calling the 50,000 Mile Tuneup: a system-by-system inspection and tuneup (or complete overhaul, if necessary) of your health, habits, outlook, …

Takeaways:

• Working toward any type of goal is likely going to benefit you – but being strategic can lower your effort and raise your success rate.
• Understanding your goal-setting personality can help y…