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How to Build Healthy Habits Without Burning Out · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  Welcome to doctor-turned-health-coach. My name is Dr. Ashori.
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  I'm a board-certified family medicine physician-turned-health-coach.
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  And in today's podcast episode,
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  I want to talk a little bit about some of the common reasons why my health coaching
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  clients sometimes burn out,
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  which means that they give up on their healthy lifestyle habits.
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  This is very common, and you might be able to relate.
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  Probably the most common reason is that a person tries to take on too much too quickly.
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  And that's often because they want to either keep the momentum going,
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  or because they want to get the most out of their time and money that they're
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  investing in the health coaching, or because they want to see quick results
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  so that they can stick with their entire plan.
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  Unfortunately, this often leads to burnout because our minds, our brain,
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  our mental health, it's all designed to keep us and resist any major change
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  very quickly i know that's frustrating but in many ways this is also a good
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  thing it keeps us on track and creates a sense of.
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  Calm and tranquility because we know that we can maintain our normal way of
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  life if we were to vacillate constantly and change change things up it make
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  for a very chaotic life so your body your brain,
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  everything is designed to resist a lot of rapid changes.
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  How do we solve for this? The best thing is to introduce changes very slowly.
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  One of the things we talk about in my health coaching right off the bat is that
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  we're not here to make a lot of big changes very quickly. We're here to trick
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  your body and your mind into thinking that it's pretty much doing the same thing.
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  If you have oatmeal, we might make a few changes to the oatmeal.
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  We might have you chew a little bit more, make a few small changes.
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  And that often is more than enough to get you incredible long-term results.
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  Another common reason is that people get frustrated when they don't see the
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  results that they're after.
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  Now, results take time. Sometimes they come quickly. For most of us,
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  they're going to come gradually.
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  And if you recall what I just said about point one, well, we always want to
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  bring change about kind of slowly.
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  So how do we keep the momentum going if we're not seeing the change?
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  What I've seen many of my clients do successfully is that they write down how
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  many days they've stuck to a particular habit. That is a success.
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  So if you can track that for yourself, if you can monitor and say,
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  okay, look, this is day 35 and I've done this habit that I believe is healthy.
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  That reinforcement is really important.
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  Believing that what you're doing is going to lead to good results is really
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  important because it's going to keep you on the same track, it's going to keep
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  you motivated, and it's going to help prevent that common burnout that I see a lot.
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  Finally, an important point is that we often burn out because we don't believe
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  that what we're doing is going to make a difference or we believe that we're
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  just going to fail anyways, we're going to give up.
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  So how do you solve for this problem? The best way to solve for this problem
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  is to constantly reinforce the ideas that you genuinely believe in,
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  meaning, if I choose myself.
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  The best food options for myself, the best nutrition plan for myself, if I engage in,
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  meditation or something that's mindful for me, if I am active most days of the
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  week, if I maintain a good sleep routine, chances are that I'm going to achieve
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  the ideal health goal that I'm after.
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  So reinforcing this with your health coach, with your physician,
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  with your loved ones, in your journal,
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  whatever it takes, is going to be an incredibly effective way of preventing
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  yourself from burning out because you'll believe in what you're doing.
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  You'll believe in the process. You believe in the strategy.
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  And that is what's going to keep you going.
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  I hope this content is helpful to you guys. Please email me. Let me know.
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  Hello at drashori.com. Give me some feedback. I'd love to hear what you want to learn more about.
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  And to find out more about my individual health coaching, go to my website.
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  The information is in the show descriptions. Take care, guys.