#216: Flexibility for achieving consistency in your Joy Choice with Dr. Michelle Segar
“We need approaches that can actually survive in the real world.” —Dr. Michelle Segar
In this episode, I have an enlightening conversation with seasoned researcher and sustainability scientist Dr. Michelle Segar about what the research really says about developing sustainable habits. I bet you’ll be surprised by what she says! If you’re ready to develop habits that are consistent and sustainable you’ll definitely want to tune in to this episode.
Some of the topics covered in today’s episode include:
Dr. Michelle Segar’s journey to becoming a sustainability scientist
The joy choice solution, motivation bubble, and decision disrupters
The different habit personality types
How our conscious and subconscious internal conflicts interfere with habit formation
How perfection holds us back from our healthy behaviors
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Dr. Michelle Segar
More about my honored guest:
Michelle is an award-winning researcher at the University of Michigan with almost thirty years studying how to help people adopt healthy behaviors in ways that can survive the complexity and unpredictability of the real world. Michelle’s perspective is uniquely comprehensive – For her entire career she has combined academic research with real-world health coaching to pioneer methods that create sustainable healthy behavior change, and which have been adopted to boost patient health, employee health and well-being, and gym membership retention. Her first book, NO SWEAT! is used as a core text in training professionals in health coaching and patient counseling.
A sought-after speaker and trainer, Michelle is frequently interviewed in major media outlets like The New York Times, NPR, Prevention, Fast Company, Self, Real Simple, Women’s Health, CNN, Newsy, and The Wall Street Journal. Michellesegar.com
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