ChangeDrive

DO YOU NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE?

If you have problems, can you change the situation?
We advise most people to come here first because you get the whole concept of YouDrive from here. We believe humans are creatures of habit we live by developing habits.

Our specialists have spent over 25 years working in organisations looking at behavioural change. YouDrive is all about you taking charge of your health. But first we say look below at examples of what change is and how habits are formed, both good and bad. Whether it’s eating too much processed food, or not drinking enough water or managing your income and outgoings each month, it's important to create good habits.

We say that to get rid of a bad habit or out of a vicious circle and turn it into a positive habit and virtuous circle you first need to recognise the bad habit. Then you can start a new habit and over time with perseverance, you will change it. It can be painful and the road can be long but if your mind is determined to do it you will succeed.

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Here are some initial thoughts about change. GO!

Here are some initial thoughts about change. GO!

See some examples of change and decide whether you can make the changes you want in your life.  GO!

See some key points about change. GO!

See how habits we don’t even know we have determine our behaviour. GO!

This is a great book about change with some good lessons. GO!

There are some tools you can use to get you started. GO!

If you’re a visitor to our site you can join and download information, assess your own health and create your own action plans, and even contribute to our site.  GO!

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Some Initial Thoughts

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Vicious Circles

Vicious circles (sometimes called vicious cycles) are when there is a complex chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback loop – vicious circles have a bad or detrimental impact. Each cycle reinforces the previous one, and things get worse each time.

This general example shows how negative thoughts can start a process in your body and mind leading to bad outcomes.

virtuous circle

Virtuous Circles

Virtuous circles (sometimes called virtuous cycles) are when there is a complex chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback loop – virtuous circles have a good or positive impact. Each cycle reinforces the previous one, and things get better each time.

This is a general example, showing how being active and involved can lead to increased happiness and involvement.

You can see more examples of vicious and virtuous circles (including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s famous virtuous circle) by clicking the buttons on the right.

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Facts About Change

days
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is said to be the average time for a new habit to stick – really it varies!

behaviours
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every day are automatic – we’re not aware of them!

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between 30-50% better chance of changing a habit with a coach

years
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is the average lifespan of a Top 550 company in the US – 50 years ago it was 60 years!

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Can I change?

Some examples of change – good and bad

Many people still smoke even though the packet contains warnings and horrid pictures of what it can do to you. But yet people still smoke. It’s a habit and a strong habit with your body becoming nicotine dependent. People do stop when the doctor says you could die in ten years if you don’t.

A New Year’s resolution is a promise we make and 90% break it within minutes, hours, days, weeks.
Passing a driving test has more positive benefits and outcomes – there’s an instructor there to help.
Exercise – start to exercise slowly and gradually build up. Humans don’t seem to have a measure and go like hell exercising in the week, then can’t wait for 2 days, ache all over, feel sick and then stop exercising.
Control spending – read some of the statistics on FuelDrive and DrinkDrive and see for yourself how our impulsive buying keeps us poorer and stops us saving for the things we want. Or are you a type of person who thinks credit cards are to be used and it’s free money until you get the bill and the interest rate is 28%.

These examples relate to our habits. We spend half our waking days on automatic behaviour – doing things we’re not even aware of! These are habits – we have good habits and bad habits.

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Here are a few key points about change that can help you

“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” – attributed to Albert Einstein
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” Warren Buffett
“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” – Charles Duhigg

Up to 45% of our daily behaviours are automatic – we’re not even aware of what we’re doing – a Duke study in 2006
Habits allow your brain to save energy – it automates small chunks of behaviours making them need less brain activity to do when repeated
Habits are much more difficult to break – habits live in the core part of the brain used by our ancestors
Habits are spiritual – AA’s 12 step programme is based on belief – sharing feelings creates common belief One key habit can trigger other changes – as long as it’s the right habit

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Changing habits

You know you have good ones and bad ones. You are perfectly aware of the fact that you need to exercise but then you think of any excuse not to.

But how can you change something, if you don’t know how it works? When you have no clue that your car needs oil to run, how can you know it’s oil you need to put in when it suddenly stops dead in the middle of the road?

The key is to learn about the habit. Why its there, how did it get there, can I get rid of it, how long will it take me. Once you know how habits work, changing them becomes much easier.

The facts below are in the brilliant book called ‘The Power of Habit’ by Charles Duhigg.

1. Half of the time you are awake is spent with automatic behaviours
This study from Duke University in 2006 found that up to 45% of all our daily behaviours are automatic.
2. Habits are a way for your brain to save energy.
Your brain is the most efficient processor on the planet. Your brain makes up only 2% of your total mass, but it consumes 25% of all the oxygen you inhale.
Automating behaviours in the form of habits is one of the best ways to save energy.
3. Habits are even tougher to break than you thought — way tougher
Sometimes I look at people who smoke and think: Does he have no clue how short life is? How can I take him even seriously, if he’s smoking?”
The reason habits are so tough to break lies in the structure of your brain. Based on evolution, the newer the parts of the brain are further away from the centre of the brain, . Your prefrontal cortex, where all complex thinking is done, is right behind your forehead.
Here’s where the basal ganglia is, the part of the brain where habits are formed. This little lump of tissue with the size of a golf ball has been around for a few thousand years.
It already made sure the caveman ancestor of your great-grandfather kept breathing, swallowing and running away from a saber tooth tiger. If that’s the kind of stuff that’s anchored in your basal ganglia, then you can imagine it would be fairly hard to get it out of there again.
It’s no wonder you can’t just quit smoking from one day to the next.
4. Habits are a spiritual thing — you better believe it
The reason why AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) is so efficient and has boasted about 2 million members each year, for the past 25 years, is surely not it’s 12-step program.
Alcohol addiction is a serious medical condition, people institutionalize themselves to get rid of it.
What fuels the success of AA is belief. Sometime during that first meeting, every newcomer looks around and starts thinking: “If it worked for that guy over there, why not for me?”
Getting together, sharing feelings and rallying together creates a common belief among the group that things can change. And to top it all off: belief works on top of belief.
Studies have shown that while no particular religion helped AA individuals reach sobriety faster, having any sort of faith at all made a huge difference over atheists and agnostics.
5. One keystone habit can change everything
Once we go further down the “habit hole”, we usually find dozens of things we want to change. Quit biting nails, stop drinking, don’t eat out so much and start running. This is neither efficient, nor even necessary.

It’s enough for you to change one habit, it just has to be the right one. Duhigg describes these as keystone habits, which cause a positive ripple effect and automatically infer changes in other areas.
You don’t have to start big, but you have to start with the right habit.

As a silly example, click to see some British holiday habits

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Who moved my cheese

This is a well-known video about change.

Cheese represents what you want in life – whether it’s a relationship, success or career. You can see a 4 minute summary video by clicking the image on the left.

You can buy the book at Amazon.

Personal change - Let’s get started!

We have used very successfully over many years corporate change methodology and adapted this into personal change. Many people in business will have heard of the following things;

SWOT Analysis
SWOT is Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. This exercise is used for detailing your personal strengths, and weaknesses. You can ask others who know you to comment as well. Looking at your strengths is important but more important is looking at your weaknesses, as they may stop you or slow your desire to change. You can write down what opportunities may lay ahead that you can capitalise on as well as detail what threats stand in your way.

Forcefield
A forcefield anlysis is a great exercise that looks at Drivers and Restrainers. A driver is something that will help you make a change happen. You can list these and score them in strength. You then look at the restrainers. What is going to stop you from making a change or create a new habit? Again, we list them and score them [1 being low and 10 being high] as to how powerful they are or how big a stopper it is going to be.

Road Map
A road map is exactly what is says a map of the direction you want to travel in. Your plan of change should be like a google map with a start and an end. Steps along the way showing you how far you have come and how far you need to go. Signs telling you are on the right road and warning signs of danger ahead or message to say check yourself.

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Who moved my cheese

Who moved my cheese

Who Moved my Cheese by Spencer Johnson

“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Robert Burns
Life doesn’t always turn out the way we think it will. When change happens, a lot of us have a natural tendency to resist that change. Why? Simply put, we are afraid of change. Change represents the unknown which challenges our sense of safety and security.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything..”
George Bernard Shaw
Irish Dramatist and critic

Next Steps

It doesn’t matter what stage  you’re at – it’s important to be the best you can be.  At the end of the day it’s about taking personal responsibility – You Drive!

It’s really your choice. You can find out more information about the subject, or see other institutions that can help by going to Support. There you will find organisations, training, coaching, self-help courses and other items to support your personal change. We have also started developing a panel of experts to provide info, advice, help and support. 

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Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation

You know you have good ones and bad ones. You are perfectly aware of the fact that you need to exercise but then you think of any excuse not to.
But how can you change something, if you don’t know how it works? When you have no clue that your car needs oil to run, how can you know it’s the oil you need to put in when it suddenly stops dead in the middle of the road?


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Personal SWOT Analysis

Business Skills for Starting and Running a Business For Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

This book Personal SWOT Analysis will guide you on how to carry out a personal SWOT analysis in 5 easy steps


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A Road Map To Find Your Passion

The Personal Change Process For Aligning To The Life: Know Your Passion

The Roadmap across Stages of Change in the book is the most innovative idea to define the various professional stages in an individual’s life.


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Udemy have a free course on ending bad habits and developing healthy ones

Quora have a an article on breaking bad habits

The US News In Health (NIH) article from Jan 2012 on breaking bad habits

Have a look at an example of British holiday habits

Vicious Circles

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Vicious circles (sometimes called vicious cycles) are when there is a complex chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback loop – vicious circles have a bad or detrimental impact.  Each cycle reinforces the previous one, and things get worse each time.

Examples exist in many places – the ones we show below are more likely to affect everyday people.  Other examples were evident in the subprime mortgage crisis or hyperinflation.

This simple example shows how simple frustration can lead to a spiral of despair.

vicious circle example

This is the vicious cycle of poverty from eSchools

vicious circle of poverty

This more general example shows how negative thoughts can start a process in your body and mind leading to bad outcomes.

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This is the Persistent Pain Cycle from Sheffield Persistent Pain  which is an example of a vicious circle

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Virtuous Circles

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Virtuous circles (sometimes called virtuous cycles) are when there is a complex chain of events which reinforce themselves through a feedback loop – virtuous circles have a good or positive impact.  Each cycle reinforces the previous one, and things get better each time.

Examples exist in many places – the ones we show below are more likely to affect everyday people.  Other examples are evident in the management of the ecology and economics.

This simple financial example shows how if earnings exceed spending, things can get better and better, leading to increased happiness and improved performance.

virtuous circle of earnings

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos drew this in 2001 – the overall concept has been updated a bit since then to reflect changes but the principle is the same.  

He started with the idea of a fantastic customer experience. 

This attracts more customers, which in turn attracts more third party sellers. This increases products available to be selected, which in turn lowers the cost of products and innovation, and the cycle goes on.

jeff bezos virtuous circle

This is a more general example, showing how being active and involved can lead to increased happiness and involvement.

virtuous circle

This is an example from the Hoffman Institute, showing how a roadblock in traffic can lead to a virtuous circle rather than the normal irritation!

virtuous circle roadblock

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British holiday habits

• A third of Britons who go abroad return to the same resort every year
• The average UK holidaymaker has been to the same place four times
• More than one in ten return to the same holiday spot ten or more times – and many even try to book the same hotel room.
• More than a third, 34 per cent, go to the same restaurant they ate at on their last trip, and more than a quarter, 26 per cent, don’t even bother trying to find new drinking locations
• Some 59 per cent of us go on the same holiday in successive years
• McDonalds and KFC are worldwide brands and people in a foreign city can always head to a McDonalds and KFC because you only need to point at the picture and with 3 fingers held up means you want 3 – language barrier overcome. No slight embarrassment not knowing the menu or protocol.
• Many go back because it is the easy option.

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Now you’ve read about change you might want to make a bit of a statement.  Have a look at some stuff below we think has some humour value!  We may make pennies on commission, but that’s not the point really.  Click on the image to see more details.

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Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

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All areas of health are interlinked

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Find your initial focus

You might think that physical, financial and mental health are quite separate, and for some people they are. However, often a problem in one area has a knock-on effect on others. Losing your job can lead to anxiety and depression, which can turn you to drink and impact your health.

You might have a severe issue in one area but that can lead to problems in other areas, and the people treating you for the first problem won’t be equipped to deal with these linked issues.

For example, doctors and nurses can treat you for a physical problem but can’t advise you about your job or finances.  Nor for the anxiety that comes with it, apart from prescribing some drugs, which might or might not be the best solution.

We encourage you to take a holistic view – we look at all areas and offer support across the whole spectrum.

health areas interlinked

Even this view of health is simplistic, as you’ll discover later if you go down that route.  You might want to consider overall health, or wellness or wellbeing, which include additional types of health, such as occupational health (how you are in your job).   Then there’s happiness and quality of life – how do these fit?

If you’re interested in that, click the link here to see more information.

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A Road Map To Find Your Passion

The Personal Change Process For Aligning To The Life: Know Your Passion

The Roadmap across Stages of Change in the book is the most innovative idea to define the various professional stages in an individual’s life.


Go to Amazon

Personal SWOT Analysis

Business Skills for Starting and Running a Business For Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

This book Personal SWOT Analysis will guide you on how to carry out a personal SWOT analysis in 5 easy steps


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Change: What Really Leads to Lasting Personal Transformation

You know you have good ones and bad ones. You are perfectly aware of the fact that you need to exercise but then you think of any excuse not to.
But how can you change something, if you don’t know how it works? When you have no clue that your car needs oil to run, how can you know it’s the oil you need to put in when it suddenly stops dead in the middle of the road?


Go to Amazon

Health Areas in Domains

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Domains

We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains. 

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area. You can create your own Action Plan to address this area, and see

Emotional: Anxiety, Compassion Fatigue, Depression, Gambling, Laughter, Narcissistic, Personality Disorder, Sleep, Stress

Environmental: Environmental Issues, Greenness

Financial: Debt, Family Finance, Financial Planning, Financial Wellness

Intellectual: IQ, Personality, Procrastination

Occupational: Jobs for Different Personality Types, Retirement Income, Work Life Balance

Physical: Alcohol, Disabilities, Dizziness, Drugs, Fitness, Food Preferences, General Health, Healthy Ageing, Illness, Nutrition, Sleep Apnea, Smoking

Social: Communication Skills, Communication Styles, Domestic Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Love Partnerships, Mental Abuse, Parenting Styles, Sexual Addiction

Spiritual: Are You Sensitive, Mystical Guidance, Spirituality

Each health area has supporting information and its own questionnaire.

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Understand Health

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Physical, financial and mental health

One definition of health is:

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 

The NHS define health as: ‘We use a broad definition of health that encompasses both physical and mental health, as well as wellbeing. This means we are not only interested in whether or not people are ill or have a health condition, but also in how healthy and well they are.’

We believe we also have to consider financial health, as this can easily impact physical and mental health. Click the button to see an example of how these are connected.

 It gets more complicated…

What is Health? How about Wellness, Wellbeing or Happiness?

The Active Wellbeing Society (TAWS) define Health as a state of the overall mental and physical state of a person; the absence of disease. They define Wellbeing or wellness as a way of life that aims to enhance well-being and refers to a more holistic whole-of-life experience which also includes emotional and spiritual aspects of life.  We expand on this definition of health to include financial health and mental health, to make it synonymous with wellbeing or wellness.  

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Health domains

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We break down the overall concept of health or wellness into ‘bite-sized chunks’ that we can actually do something about.  The first level we call health domains.

We like the Life of Wellness site and we have chosen the following domains.

1. Emotional Wellness: Awareness and acceptance of feelings
2. Spiritual Wellness: A search for meaning and purpose
3. Intellectual Wellness: Recognition of your creativity, knowledge and skills
4. Physical Wellness: Need for physical activity and balanced nutrition
5. Environmental Wellness: Positive awareness and impact on your environment
6. Financial Wellness: Debt reduction, cash flow balance or financial future planning
7. Occupational Wellness: Personal achievement and enrichment from your career
8. Social Wellness: Contribution to your community

wellness wheel

Health Areas

Within each domain, we have included a number of health areas. These are specific issues that you can tackle.  Within each health area, e.g. Depression, once you have subscribed we have built additional information and exercises which you can do to help in the area.

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See which domains you should address

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Having established that we use 8 domains, you need to understand which you should concentrate on.

The 8 are:

  • Emotional
  • Environmental
  • Financial
  • Intellectual
  • Occupational
  • Physical
  • Social
  • Spiritual

 

You can take a questionnaire, which scores you in each domain.  You can decide which domains you are strong in, and which you need to improve.

Another analysis shows which domains you should look at, but also which domains you want to look at.

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Locus of Control

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  • We want to help people in all aspects of their health  – physical, financial and mental. We also provide detailed explanations of how overall health (or well-being) is measured.
  • We believe these things are often linked, so we try and address health holistically. We are building templates, questionnaires and exercises to help you identify what’s important to you.
  • We think people should try and take responsibility for  of their own health as much as they can.  See below for what that means.

People look at things differently.  Some people believe things happen to them, while others believe they can influence what happens to them. Technically this is called the ‘locus of control’.  People can have an Internal or external Locus of Control

So how do you see things?

Psychology Today have a 15 minute test which gives you a summary of your position you can buy the detailed results if you want to.

My Personality Test have a 10 minute test which gives you a summary.

People tend to take more responsibility (locus gets more internal) as they get older.  However, external isn’t always bad – for example if you are physically unable to do some things you can accept it and focus on the things you can do.  This American video explains the concept and gives examples of how this can affect relationships.

locus of control

Internal

  • More likely to take responsibility for actions
  • Tend to be less influenced by others

External

  • Blame outside forces for what happens
  • Don’t believe they can change their situation themselves

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Add your attitude to change - see how you view changes in your life

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Do you need to change?

No matter how healthy you are at the moment, the chances are that there are some areas you could improve. It may be that you have a real problem in one or more areas, and you would like to make some improvements.

At YouDrive we accept that there are many different degrees of ‘not wellness’ in a large number of different health areas, ranging from physical illness such as covid-19 through mental illness such as anxiety through to financial problems like debt.  We try and help where the problem ranges from ‘slight’ to quite bad’ – after this expert help and intervention may be needed.

However, especially in these times, we have to try and make these changes ourselves, possibly with some help from others, whether remotely or face to face.

The thing is, to make an improvement we have to change some things.

This involves changing our behaviour in some respects, and that’s not always easy.

Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, is quoted as saying “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”.  

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Another way of looking at this: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” – attributed to Albert Einstein.

Consequently we need to make some changes.  The problem is that we have already developed a lot of habits, some of which we need to break and replace by better ones.  Some of our bad habits have become entrenched, and the bad results they create in turn engender further bad habits to develop – in effect the bad habits can feed on themselves.

We need to understand how we can make changes and stick to them, and that’s what this part of your health profile is about.

It will involve some learning, through reading, some videos and some additional information and also seeing how you react to change currently.

It will also ask you to consider whether you feel you are in charge of your future, or whether you feel it’s all fate.

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Assess your overall health using a health questionnaire

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At YouDrive we try and help people improve their health. We use ‘health’ but we understand there are other terms such as wellbeing or even happiness that reflect how we are doing in our lives – if you’re interested in the different definitions and ideas see our page on the subject.

We want to help whether you have a particular problem – physical, financial or mental – or if you just want to improve some specific part of your life or just make some improvements overall.

You’d be surprised, but there has been a serious amount of scientific work done in this area over the last twenty years.

So first we allow you to assess your current health (or wellbeing, or happiness).  We do this by questionnaire.  Which one is determined by the type of person you are:

  1. You understand yourself well and want a quick overview of your health and wellness, and will drill down in any areas needing work
  2. You want to do a more detailed assessment and then focus on areas you’re already aware of
  3. You want to look at the whole situation in more detail across all the health domains.

By the way, we take your privacy seriously – we collect information that you choose to provide but we de-identify it as much as possible and will never share it with anyone without your explicit consent.

You can then drill down into some specific areas and there are more questionnaires to see your situation in these particular areas.  We provide you with specific information and refer you to other potential aspects of help. Our next step is to build a personalised action plan – for now we will make a suggestion for you to develop your own plan and then after a time you can see whether this has had a positive impact by retaking the test.

In future we will be engaging with medical and behavioural specialists to devise action plans for individual people with specific situations.

We have an overall questionnaire which you can complete which will assess your current state.

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Values, Attitudes and Beliefs

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We all have our beliefs, attitudes and values – these have developed throughout our life based on who we are and what we have done. Let’s look at what these are.

The University of Reading explain: “People’s values, beliefs and attitudes are formed and bonded over time through the influences of family, friends, society and life experiences. So, by the time you’re an adult, you can hold very definite views on just about everything with a sense of “no one is going to change my mind”.

The combination of your personal values, beliefs and attitudes are your moral principles that guide you in life and affect your behaviour. However, your views can wildly differ to others and in an institution such as a school, these beliefs may be counter to the values of the school, child development or indeed the law.” 

Let’s look more closely at the differences between beliefs, attitudes and values.

Beliefs

These come from real experiences – we think our beliefs are based on reality, but in fact our beliefs colour our experiences; also, an original experience e.g. when we were a child is not the same as what’s happening now. Beliefs can be moral, religious or cultural and reflect who we are. They can be rational (‘it gets colder in winter’) or irrational (‘I am never going to make something of myself’).

Attitudes

This is an immediate belief or disposition about something specific. It is a recurring group of beliefs and behaviours aimed at specific groups, people, ideas or objects. They will normally be positive or negative and we will always behave that way to the target group. Examples of attitudes include confidence (I can or can’t do something), grateful (I an entitled to / grateful for XXX) and cheerful (I am generally happy / miserable).

Values

These are things (principles or qualities) that we hold in high regard or consider to be worthwhile or right / wrong. They are formed by a belief related to the worth of something – an idea or behaviour. Some values are common (e.g. family comes first, the value of friendship) or cultural (which the whole community have – see video at Study.com here)

The theory

Links to Wikipedia

Expectancy Value Theory suggests you balance your beliefs about something with the value you attach to it. The Theory of Reasoned Action suggests that beliefs and evaluation about behavioural outcomes determine attitudes, and intentions lead directly to behaviour.

Beliefs

Expressions of confidence – can change over time

Attitudes

Learned predispositions to something – are subject to change

Values

Ideals that guide our behaviour – Generally long lasting and often need life changing experience to change

Iceberg demonstrating implicit and explicit bias – from Owlcation

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