Making Changes That Don’t Stick: How We Self-Sabotage Our Own Wellness

We can prevent dementia, heart disease, diabetes and a host of other chronic health conditions…so why don’t we?

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Eat better, exercise more, stop smoking. These are three examples of the no-brainer recommendations put out last week by the World Health Organization.

Maybe you will read about how to reduce your risk of dementia but chances are, you won’t do anything about it.

Or maybe you will try to eat better, exercise more and cut down on the alcohol but after a week or a month…you will probably be back to where you started: a ticking timebomb for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia.

Plus, now that you’ve failed in your quest to “get healthy” you can add guilt and failure to your internal catalog of self.

Then, in another month or two or six, you will get another scare: a test result from the doctor, a phantom pain in your chest or an insightful and illuminating health segment on the local news channel. Again, you will get excited, set goals…and then — eventually — you will fail. Rinse and repeat for the next 50 years.

So why do we exist in this cycle of insanity when it comes to our health? Because we are trying to…