The Healthy Challenge: Strategies for Maintaining Positive Habits and Enhancing Performance

By Hans Onome

In The Healthy Challenge, an audio course from Scribd Coach, performance coach and Super Bowl XXXVII alumnus Hans Onome guides you through ways to develop habits to improve your health and happiness. Intended for listeners at all stages of the journey of wellness, Onome draws from his experience as a coach and athlete to provide actionable advice so you can train your body and mind toward success. In this course, Onome explains how you can use the “WOOP” process to approach your goals, effective techniques for maintaining habit power, the stages of change, how to assess what’s holding you back, and more. He also shares exercises along the way to help you apply what you’ve learned immediately.

If you’re looking to step up your performance, you should learn from the best. Onome has the experience and knowledge to get you on precisely the right path.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Sep 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781094445359

Hans Onome

Hans Onome is a work and relationship coach specializing in healthy organizations, behavior change, and performance. Hans is a member of the ICF, the NFL Players Association, and a Super Bowl XXXVII alumnus. To learn more about Onome and his work, find him on LinkedIn or at his website, HansOnome.com.

Book preview

Introduction

Hello, thanks for joining me. I’m Hans Onome, and this is The Healthy Challenge: Strategies for Maintaining Positive Habits and Enhancing Performance, a course from Scribd Coach.

I created this course to help you develop essential habits to improve your health and happiness. To build positive habits, we have to aim for consistency and frequency, not intensity. So whatever stage of the journey you’re in, this course is for you.

Tell me if you’ve heard this before: each year, thousands of men and women sign up for fitness programs to whip themselves into shape. New gym members will hop on the treadmill and expect magic results. If they lose patience or progress stalls these people will eventually quit. It happens every year, especially a few weeks after New Year’s Day.

New goals to be happier fizzle just as quickly. We all know new habits can be difficult to maintain. Even the three-days-a-week schedule that trainers often give their clients to get into shape is difficult to keep unless you’ve built consistency over time. And that's the most important factor: consistency over time.

This is what you need in order to train your body and your mind toward success. All of the exercises in this course are focused on sustainable inexpensive activities that you can do to make your progress inevitable.

You may be wondering why I’m qualified to talk about this. Well, let me share a bit about myself. I am a certified work and relationship coach, specializing in healthy organizations, behavior change, and performance. I am a member of the International Coaching Federation, the Institute of Coaching at Mclean, Harvard Medical School, the NFL Players Association, and a Super Bowl XXXVII alumnus.

I have been driven to understand how people improve and change their behaviors ever since I started training with Hall of Fame athletes and coaches in preparation for the NFL draft. After football, this passion led to large-scale community youth programs to address public health initiatives through events and various media forms.

Later, I formed a coaching firm where professional and corporate athletes overcome bad habits, gain self-mastery, self- compassion and maximize their personal assets to discover deeper ways to impact this world.

As we start this course, let's begin to think of habit power like we think of brushing our teeth. Most of us brush our teeth every day without thinking about it because we’ve learned something important without even knowing it: consistency. But it's taken years of training to develop this level of automaticity. We don’t miss one day and say, Screw it; I’m never going to brush again! Nor do we scrub our teeth super hard to make up for the time we missed.

So let’s apply the same principles to other habits we want to develop. Apply patience and