THINK AGAIN
If you don’t eat better and exercise more, you’re likely to die,” the doctor warns the patient who just barely survived a heart attack.
But tell me, if that were you, would you ‘mend’ your ways? Would the fear of death give you enough willpower to take positive action and change your life? You’d think so, right?
But somewhat alarmingly, research shows that when faced with this situation, only one in seven of us are able to follow through.
That’s not because we (the other six) lack willpower. It’s actually because willpower isn’t really the answer to change.
When people come into my clinic, they often ask me for help with things like: “Can you increase my willpower so I can eat healthily? Or stick to my gym plan?” But
