No. 81 | Reclaim Your Power: Why Avoidance Goals are a Dead End in Your Health

The Between Meals Podcast

Are you ready to take control of your health and happiness without all the all-or-nothing, on-again / off-again and black-and-white thinking we often experience when setting new daily habit and behavior goals as we pursue our health and nutrition?

Join us in this episode of the podcast as we explore the power of approach goals! Learn the difference between approach and avoid goals and discover 5 key tips to effectively implementing approach goals in your life no matter what your personal health goals.

• Learn how self-efficacy, or our belief in our ability to succeed, is crucial in achieving approach goals. People with high levels of self-efficacy are more likely to persist in their efforts to achieve their goals, even when faced with obstacles and setbacks.

• Understand the importance of flexibility when it comes to approach goals, as it allows us to be more adaptable and open to change, and helps us to keep moving forward towards our goal.

• You will learn how approach goals align perfectly with the principles of positive psychology, which focuses on what is right with people rather than what is wrong. By focusing on what we want to achieve, we can increase our well-being and happiness.

• Get a deeper understanding of how a growth mindset, which is the belief that we can grow and develop, is related to positive psychology and can lead to success and well-being.

• Plus importance of having positive and supportive people in our lives, as it can make it easier to build self-efficacy and achieve our approach goals.

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