Successful change

Change is better actions: Change requires intentional actions repeatedly. To enable repetition, the actions must fit within the resources available.

Resources: The resources needed for change are the available cognitive-socio-emotional capacity including willpower, repetition for learning, resilience to overcome difficulties, and recovery time.

Motivation: Own motivation and belief in one’s ability to improve impact the magnitude of resources, but are not sufficient on their own.

Cognitive-socio-emotional capacity: The sum total of mental effort and energy we can apply for interactions, creation, decision-making, self-reflection, and learning.

Change takes time to take root

Habits are skills that require practice, meaning repetition. Learning also needs time to recover such that the lessons take root. Regularity is therefore more important than intensity. Fortunately, our brains are adaptable thanks to neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity: Brain’s ability to reorganize and rewire its neural connections, enabling it to function in ways that differ from its prior state.

Two months: It takes on average two months of practice for a habit to stick.

Two years: If we can keep it up for about two years, a habit is deeply rooted enough to resist change and setbacks.

Better actions are worth the effort – they can increase your satisfaction level.

Change does not have to be radical to have significant effect

A small improvement in repetitive habits will significantly improve the outcome. Regularity is more important than intensity in change. Small but repeated improvement will lead to a better result, as long as you have resilience to overcome difficulties in the beginning.

Example: Gaining weight and losing it

Even a small amount of excess calories will accumulate in the body as fat. Small accumulations repeated 365 times a year = Little x 365. The difference in outcome is staggering: 100 extra calories a day will add five extra kilos a year to your body.

Reducing 100 calories is a small change, like cutting out two slices of cheese or four pieces of chocolate every day.

A small change like cutting out extra calories will stop weight gain. But you need resilience. Our bodies try to maintain the established weight and send clear hunger signals, which is a real difficulty to keep going. With repeated actions you overcome the difficulty and find a new normal.

We support change for leaner life

Let us help you make a successful change, so you can focus on effective action instead of planning. Our services include:

• Life Inventory: Mapping out your current situation
• Tailoring a Plan & Road Map: A realistic and prioritized plan focusing on productive actions.
• We coach you through the plan:
  • Encouraging over hardships until habits stick.
  • Teaching and helping to save you from figuring everything out by yourself, like workout routines.
  • Discussing the successes and challenges of tried activities, enabling new insights that change not just your thinking, but actions.
  • Discussing to gain new understanding and insights to improve your actions beyond your own input.
  • Specific planning to reduce welfare debt during periods of high performance such as project pressures, travel, or jet lag.

Make 2025 count for you.