I recently wrote about my ideas surrounding the “Survival vs Comfort” Paradigm. As a quick refresher; most of the resistance to change we feel is the result of our brain’s believing we are putting ourselves in danger. This is an evolutionary system deep in our unconscious mind, and therefore it triggers automatically. By understanding that […]
Throughout my first week of writing I noticed some patterns begin to emerge both in the writing itself and the ideas floating around my head. One major theme that I found coming up repeatedly was the idea of “survival vs comfort.” It’s a framework I’ve used before to explain different behavioral concepts to people. I […]
We’ve all been there, walking through the grocery store when we pass the ice cream aisle and our brains automatically perk up and say “ooh, ice cream sounds good right now. Go look!” We walk down the aisle, telling ourselves that we’re just considering it and reminding ourselves of our diet or fitness goals. But […]
I ate the same meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner nearly every day for almost two years. It makes it hard for me to give people advice on losing weight because I tell them what I did and the looks of horror and sympathy alone make me reconsider my own sanity. However, despite my seemingly […]
I’m currently sitting at my outside table enjoying the cool morning air and my coffee, and I am trying to come up with ideas to write about. Despite setting up a blog, paying money for a domain and hosting, coming up with a bunch of ideas, I find myself resisting the process of actually committing […]