Walk With Your Doc Fridays - Week 4

Hi gang!

My apologies for this late entry...

I was too PRESENT with my holidays and the busyness of returning to work...

I had not been thinking about the FUTURE and this blog, until I saw BH. She reminded me that she was checking the blog!!

She has been implementing a number of the strategies we had discussed over the month!! That's awesome BH!!

On our 4th and final week, we discussed the Time Paradox which is a new book that discusses how we all perceive time so differently. It turns out, those who are caught with problematic behaviours, have too much of a PRESENT orientation. They are not as weighted (pardon the pun!) in FUTURE thinking; the ability to think (and feel) about future consequences or the sweetness of future rewards (delayed gratification). They are stuck in time, in the hedonistic or fatalistic PRESENT and are unable to get free...

Fascinating stuff!

That is why with this program, we have been looking at the past and future in a different light...

In your handy, dandy notebooks we asked you to write out some of your more noteworthy Accomplishments or Powerful Moments (positive past). As well, looking to a Compelling future by envisioning a successful future; looking and feeling fitter, healthier and ______'er... then Chunking each step down on how to get there, i.e. walking 15 to 30 minutes a day, eating breakfast and making healthier choices (you get the idea).

Lastly, we discussed how not to get hooked on cocaine (apparently it's good stuff?)...it's because we see and feel that the future (Creepy) Consequences are so distasteful, that it turns out to be not a great (present) choice...

So if it takes envisioning a future of more disability like more pain from osteoarthritis or the development of full blown diabetes from your current behaviours then there is more fuel in your tank and motivation to stick with some of these new strategies.

We also planned as a group to reconvene on the second Friday in September (the 11th)... this will be a time where you can be Accountable for changes in your measurements. BTW, DH and the team from the IHN would be happy to check in with you over the summer. Let me know by e-mail for contact information.

I wanted to thank the IHN team again for their involvement in this pilot program...I had a lot of fun and hopefully you did too!

Remember CRAVED no more!

Keep me posted on how things are going, my e-mail is d.poteryko@gmail.com

Have a healthy and happy summer everyone!

Dr. P