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themedalist
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Hi Everyone,
Our weekly challenge starting March 12 will focus on creating new, small healthy habits. We will be exploring how habits work, the 3 components of habits, and how we can tweak an existing habit to make it better work for us. I’m very excited about this challenge and I hope you are too. Whether we realize it or not, our lives are guided and shaped by our daily habits. It’s much easier to reach your health and wellness goals if you put into place a series of habits that will run pretty much on auto pilot.
I wanted to let you know about a terrific free habits program that you can take next week that will complement our habits challenge. Dr. BJ Fogg of Stanford University has created the Tiny Habits program from his research overseeing the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford. Dr. Fogg is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on habits. More than 40,000 people have taken the Tiny Habits program and it’s been refined over the years as new insights about habits are made. I’ve gone through the program twice, most recently a couple of weeks ago, and I’m recommending it to you.
The program runs Monday through Friday and is free of charge. It doesn’t require a lot of time and it’s fun to do. But there is one important thing you need to keep in mind. Signups for the next week’s session that start on Monday close on Saturday. If you want to participate in the Tiny Habits session that starts March 12, you will need to enroll by Saturday, March 10th.
You can learn more about the Tiny Habits program here and there’s a link to signup:
http://tinyhabits.com/
If you miss the signup window or you’d rather not participate, no problem. Our Habits 101 challenge that begins on March 12 will provide plenty of information and support so that you can create new small habits. But since the Tiny Habits program is complementary to our challenge next week and I can personally vouch for its effectiveness, I wanted to encourage you to join. It’s not often we get to learn from a world renowned expert (and for free!)
—Denise
Our weekly challenge starting March 12 will focus on creating new, small healthy habits. We will be exploring how habits work, the 3 components of habits, and how we can tweak an existing habit to make it better work for us. I’m very excited about this challenge and I hope you are too. Whether we realize it or not, our lives are guided and shaped by our daily habits. It’s much easier to reach your health and wellness goals if you put into place a series of habits that will run pretty much on auto pilot.
I wanted to let you know about a terrific free habits program that you can take next week that will complement our habits challenge. Dr. BJ Fogg of Stanford University has created the Tiny Habits program from his research overseeing the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford. Dr. Fogg is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on habits. More than 40,000 people have taken the Tiny Habits program and it’s been refined over the years as new insights about habits are made. I’ve gone through the program twice, most recently a couple of weeks ago, and I’m recommending it to you.
The program runs Monday through Friday and is free of charge. It doesn’t require a lot of time and it’s fun to do. But there is one important thing you need to keep in mind. Signups for the next week’s session that start on Monday close on Saturday. If you want to participate in the Tiny Habits session that starts March 12, you will need to enroll by Saturday, March 10th.
You can learn more about the Tiny Habits program here and there’s a link to signup:
http://tinyhabits.com/
If you miss the signup window or you’d rather not participate, no problem. Our Habits 101 challenge that begins on March 12 will provide plenty of information and support so that you can create new small habits. But since the Tiny Habits program is complementary to our challenge next week and I can personally vouch for its effectiveness, I wanted to encourage you to join. It’s not often we get to learn from a world renowned expert (and for free!)
—Denise
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Thank you for this Denise! I'm really excited about this! I have a very hard time creating new habits. I'll get really excited and do something for about a week and then just taper off until I just stop doing it all together. I'm hoping this will help me stay on track until it is engrained in me to just do it!3
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HGSmith0920 wrote: »Thank you for this Denise! I'm really excited about this! I have a very hard time creating new habits. I'll get really excited and do something for about a week and then just taper off until I just stop doing it all together. I'm hoping this will help me stay on track until it is engrained in me to just do it!
I’m glad you are excited about this, @HGSmith0920. I think human being are naturally drawn to new things (especially well marketed things), but really having a good basic set of healthy habits that you keep doing over and over again is what leads to success. We are our habits.3 -
Just signed up! I am really excited for this! I hope it helps!2
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just signed up looking forward to this as well thanks for sharing this with us...2
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Thanks. Just signed up!
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I signed up. Thanks, Denise.3
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I’m in! Thanks for the info on this opportunity.2
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I just signed up too! I am not sure what to expect. LOL2
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I just signed up too! I am not sure what to expect. LOL
You’ll come away knowing the formula and structure that all habits follow. Which will make it easier for you to change any habit that you have.
We will be going over the habits structure in our own challenge next week, but since the Tiny Habits program is easy to do, free, reputable, and developed by a habits expert, i wanted to promote it.
For those of you who have signed up already, you’ll be getting your introductory information this weekend.4 -
Thank you. I am excited.
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Signed up and so excited!! Thank you so much, Denise. I feel really blessed to have found this group and want you to know how much we much you put into this for us. I wish I could repay you somehow! (((HUGS)))3
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I signed up. Thank you for putting this together!1
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ditto!1
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just got my three tiny habits set up thanks again for this Denise I am excited to try it this week.1
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sandra8841 wrote: »just got my three tiny habits set up thanks again for this Denise I am excited to try it this week.
I’m glad, Sandra. I’ll be interested to hear what you all think of the Tiny Habits program. I think it will complement our habits challenge that starts tomorrow very nicely. But I’ll be very interested in your feedback, since I plan on having this habits challenge again later this year.
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Got my set up too. Can't wait.
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Oh no, I just realize the emails were all on my junk mail. Set up was supposed to be done yesterday by 8pm and I missed the deadline. Fingers crossed I can still join.0
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@prgirl39mfp , I just barely made the deadline. My email is going so slow and I looked for it Friday but was busy all Saturday. I hope you can join.1
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Thanks @77tes . Fingers crossed.1
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prgirl39mfp wrote: »Oh no, I just realize the emails were all on my junk mail. Set up was supposed to be done yesterday by 8pm and I missed the deadline. Fingers crossed I can still join.
Keep in mind, @prgirl39mfp, that there will be another Tiny Habits session starting next Monday, March 19. Our challenge next week would also be complementary to doing Tiny Habits that same week. To anyone else who might like to participate in that session, you’ll need to signup by Saturday, March 17.
I plan on rerunning our Building Better Habits challenge this fall. I’ll interested in your feedback on Tiny Habits and if you found it worthwhile and if I should continue to promote it alongside the Better Habits challenge. If I do, I will definitely add a cautionary note about checking your junk/spam folder for the program information. They are firm on letting them know what habits you’ll be working on by the deadline they give.
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Thanks @themedalist. I will be on the look out. I rarely check my email on the weekends and was so sad it did not occur to me it could have been on my spam/junk email. I will not miss this. So far I live the site.0
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@themedalist I really liked the Tiny Habits program and think it would be great to do again. I'm still doing it this week with a couple of other habits I want to incorporate into my day! I can do anything for 30 seconds, especially if I have the "trigger" to remind me!
Thanks again for a great challenge! 1 -
OConnell5483 wrote: »@themedalist I really liked the Tiny Habits program and think it would be great to do again. I'm still doing it this week with a couple of other habits I want to incorporate into my day! I can do anything for 30 seconds, especially if I have the "trigger" to remind me! Thanks again for a great challenge!
Thank you for the feedback on Tiny Habits, @OConnell5483. I’m thinking that we’ll have another habits challenge in the fall, since habits are fundamental to what we’re doing in this group.
If you participated in Tiny Habits, I’d love to hear what you thought. Was it helpful to you? Should I recommend it in the future?2 -
I liked Tiny Habits. I preferred them vs long term habits or bigger ones. I can manage them better. I totally feel it should be recommended in the future. Life happens and we might need a refresher!2
