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Staying Engaged: How To Use Streaks and Weekly Goals
Establishing new behaviors that eventually become habits that can lead to a new identity or sense of self can be hard. Two techniques that have worked to help me stay engaged as I work towards creating new habits are streaks and weekly … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology
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A Small But Significant Patient-Centered Example
Digital health solutions that facilitate patient engagement must put the patient in charge, not the physician. Outside of the clinic, where health happens, in the day-in, day-out lives of people, we have to let the patient take ownership of and … Continue reading
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Big Data or Tiny Habits?
To repeat the oft-quoted words of Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” I believe that wearable activity tracking devices can be powerful habit transformation tools and I’m frustrated to see … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology
Tagged behavior change, big data, fitness band, habit design, wearable technology
Get Smart With the New Misfit Shine
“Don’t tell me there’s another wearable fitness tracker on the shelf” Guess what, there’s another wearable fitness tracker on the shelf at Apple. “I asked you not to tell me that.”
Posted in Healthcare, Healthcare lifestyle, Healthcare technology, Uncategorized
Tagged behavior change, fitness band, wearable technology
Step Up and Flex Those Behavior Change Muscles
Fitbit, Jawbone, Basis, Misfit, Withings, Lark, Nike.. the list of activity tracking devices continues to grow. Which to choose? There are plenty of opinions – but most of the discussion comparing them tends to focus on hardware specific features such … Continue reading
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To Keep Me Engaged, Make It Meaningful
I believe that consumer tracking devices such as the Jawbone Up and Fitbit can have a long-term positive impact by helping people to establish healthy behaviors and habits. However, at the handful of consumer health oriented conferences I’ve been to, … Continue reading
Behavior Change Is (maybe not so) Hard.
I learned something recently that I wish I had learned 10 years ago: Self-motivation is not the way to create new daily behaviors that stick. The trick is to construct a new simple habit and just let it happen. Motivation … Continue reading
