May 26

May 26 Lifestyle Changes Are Contagious

Hi, I'm Liz Moser, a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.

This week a client shared with me how grateful she was for deciding to adopt a long-term approach to the growth of her online business. She’s giving herself a year to develop her niche and audience, letting go of specific financial goals, intuitively knowing the money will come.

Meanwhile, her friends with similar businesses are touting their rapid financial successes. Competing with them was causing stress, and she realized focusing on the money kept her from concentrating on her niche, audience, and content.

I see the relationship between my client letting go of her quick-fix diet mentality and adopting long-term nutritional lifestyle changes (the reason she hired me) to temporarily letting go of financial gains and instead focusing on the actions that will drive her income. You could say, as she established her new healthier lifestyle around nutrition that rippled out to her new long-term approach with her business.

Yes, sometimes lifestyle changes are contagious!

We live in a society of ‘now, now, now’ 'bigger, faster, better,’ and quick fixes. Our ego wants us to compete with our friends and family, yet as in so many areas of our life, it’s more about who is making an effort in a slow, steady, methodical way over the long term than short quick bursts of effort.

Sometimes the last person standing wins and why shouldn’t it be you?

Where in your life could you let go of that quick fix/diet mentality and instead adopt small sustainable changes or lifestyle changes that, over time, will get you to the places you want to go? Perhaps with less stress and angst as a bonus?

Or, maybe, like my client, you are already noticing the contagious influence of adopting a lifestyle change in one area of your life and watching its domino effect in another arena.

I’m Liz Moser, a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, and thank you for reading this blog about how lifestyle changes can be contagious. If you have any questions about this blog, about health and wellness, or wellness coaching with me, please reach out via my website at lizmosercoaching.com