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We believe that people can reliably get to their goals when they do two things:
- Break down the thing they want to do (goal) into specific aptitudes (skills).
- Build those aptitudes (skills) through strategic daily habits (practices).
The formula pretty much looks like this:
- Practice daily to build skills.
- Build skills to achieve goals.
Growth and development come through daily practices and supporting experiences with the help of your CSF Coach.
Here's an example of how this works:
GOAL: EAT BETTER CONSISTENTLY
Let's say you want to lose weight. You know that to lose weight you'll need to eat better consistently. That's your real goal: Eat better consistently.
But you don't have all the skills to do it just yet. So you have to break it down into?
SKILL: HUNGER AND APPETITE AWARENESS
Which skills are required to eat better consistently? We've identified hunger/appetite awareness as the most important initial skill for making progress.
But that's not quite a concrete thing you can do. So you have to break it down into
PRACTICES: EAT SLOWLY AND STOP EATING WHEN SATISFIED
We use two daily practices to build the skill of hunger and appetite awareness.
- Practice 1: Eat slowly.
- Practice 2: Eat until satisfied, not stuffed.
This practice takes a month -?wo weeks for you to learn, practice, and repeat each habit. At the end of a month, you’ll have two very important habits that they can now use for the rest of their lives. They've learned it by doing it.
Not surprisingly, clients usually lose weight during this time. Because, of course, they're learning to eat a bit less and adjust their intake according to body signals.
Even better, they've built two new habits that they can use for the rest of their lives, no matter what else happens. Now, if you are thinking that these 2 habits are easy, take today and put them into practice. When you eat today, do it as you normally would with these 2 skills tucked in the back of your mind. Then ask yourself, is there any room for “being just a little bit better?”