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On Wellness, from Coach Bruce

Today is Tuesday, January 06th, 2009

5. TIPS.Mind and Health

The Motivation to take Action

When you are changing from a sedentary lifestyle to and active one, how do you find the motivation? What will allow you to start and maintain increased activity?
One thing to remember is you need more than one motivator, more than one reason to do more than you do […]

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12Dec2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Go Where You Want to Go - 5 key habits

David, over on How to have Great Self Confidence, recently wrote about changing your habits. His premise was to look ahead to where your habits were taking you and decide if you want to go there or not.This is an excellent plan. If you don’t know where you are going, you […]

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7Dec2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Assess Your Personal Health Risk - 11 areas to consider

When my youngest son (now age 27) was 5 he had a problem with bedwetting. I used to go into his room to awaken him for breakfast. I would sometimes ask, “Are you dry?” He often said, “Don’t ask me that!”
Some of us are like my young son as […]

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30Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Lose Weight through better Self-Talk

We all talk to ourselves. Self Talk is that inner/actual voice we use to make comments or suggestions about ourselves or to ourselves. It is either positive or negative. You know which it is by how well you accomplish your most difficult goals.
Negative talk like this:
It’s OK to […]

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23Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 8 comments | Continued

S.M.A.R.T. Goals

During the last 6 weeks of 2007, many people will begin to think about what they want to do next year. They will call these thoughts New Year Resolutions. I would call them goals if the person setting them is S.M.A.R.T. about it. If your goals are SMART you are more likely […]

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16Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Respect - How to get more of it from yourself

You want to feel good about yourself. You know you aren’t perfect but you want to do more, accomplish more, be better and like what you do. There are millions of people in the same situation. In our country, in the land of opportunity, surrounded by paths we can […]

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9Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 1 comment | Continued

Changing a Behavior - 8 lessons to help you

There are 5 stages of change in the model I use in my coaching practice. The last two stages are action which is change that has occurred for less than 6 months and maintenance which is change that has occurred for more than 6 months. These don’t mean the ultimate goal is achieved […]

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2Nov2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Quit Smoking - two preparatory steps

Last week I said I would address the issues of the person who says “I can’t quit.” This means they want to quit and probably have tried to quit and started again.
Once you know you want to quit, you can prepare by doing two things.
First, make a commitment. Realize that this commitment is […]

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26Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Does exercise help us learn better

Just as Phil Lawler, PE teacher extraordinaire, who is an integral part of PE4Life.
Look at these stats for Naperville Central High School
Students enrolled in a Learning Readiness PE (LRPE) class improved Algebra readiness scores 20% (2% for those not enrolled)
Those taking LRPE before a lteracy class improved their reading scores 1.4 grade levels compared to […]

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24Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued

Kick The Habit

I ask my patients who smoke if they ever think about quitting. Those who are smoking tell me one of four things.
Some say they like it and that they won’t quit. Some want to quit but say they can’t or they tried and it was too hard. Others say they are going […]

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19Oct2007 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued