The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation (MCWT) set out to explore what is necessary for it to achieve its mission of inspiring and growing women in tech. To that end, MCWT conducted a study that involved input from a range of ages and stages for its 67-page report, Explore, Focus, Grow: A Tech Career Journey in Michigan.

Close to 500 participants were surveyed from girls as young as fifth grade to college students to women working in tech and even the people whose job it is to recruit and retain tech talent. The questions they answered revealed what motivates them to enter the field and what keeps them on the tech track. (Read We Asked Why There Aren't More Women In Tech.)

It also shared their recommendations for inspiring, recruiting and retaining women in tech, starting from middle school.

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It all begins with motivation. For many, their motivation goes back to elementary school as a spark of inspiration from a parent or teacher who showed them the possibilities of tech. The quotes from the young women aspiring to tech careers include this one:

"Just being able to be on the forefront of all big change. I think technology has the ultimate power to make a difference, and I want to be a part of that.

While they recognize that tech is a consistently growing field that will offer them a number of different job opportunities, they also see it as offering them the possibility of fulfillment. (Read What Do Women in Tech Want?)

They cite different motivations:

Over a quarter of the university level students (26%) said they were concerned about women being underrepresented in tech. Impostor syndrome is also an issue, as 23% admitted they were not as confident of their abilities as they should be.

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Among the quotes recorded on that was this:

I think my main concern is just being taken seriously and also taking myself seriously. I suffer from a textbook case of impostor syndrome which I think can sometimes hold me back.

The concerns reported by women already working in the field are similar. About a third (34%) cite lack of representation, and 27% complain of gender bias.

One of the respondent quotes was:

It's still very much a male-dominated field, so proving your value and demonstrating thought leadership is still challenging.

Another observed:

I find myself being the only woman at the table more often than not, and whether true or perceived, I often am made to feel 'less than. However, she added a note of optimism: With a stronger team of women, we will be able to make a stronger impact.

MCWTs position is that the remedy for most of the womens concerns is continued exposure to role models and getting connected to mentors. The importance of mentorship for women is a general theme among those giving advice for women in tech, as we saw in Top Career Tips for Women Working in Technology.

The difference between having a mentor and not having one can determine whether a woman will take a particular position and if shell stay at the company down the road. (Read 12 Top Women in Tech Right Now.)

That is consistent with what university students told MCWT when asked for their recommendations for improving the situation of women in tech as 26% recommended increasing the networking/mentorship/internship opportunities for women.

As one observed: Seeing women in the jobs you want to be in makes it seem more possible and real.

Increasing outreach was the second most popular recommendation (23%) That included suggestions to come to schools with some specific ideas like job fairs that would include:

Resum checks and mock interview sessions to help better prepare young women for the workforce.

The events were also suggested as a way to boost exposure to female mentors that provide a positive role model.

Another 22% recommended stepping up these activities for the younger set:

Get students started young, relate the love of technology to the devices that they use everyday already.

One of these suggestions accentuate the positive outlook that this particular woman has found in her own experience:

Everyone says engineering is hard, and forget to mention that it is so much fun. I have never felt like I am being treated differently because of my gender. We should focus more on how nothing is impossible.

Given the concerns about impostor syndrome, 9% offer recommendations to reinforce confidence:

I would tell them to make sure the young women know how smart they are and to never doubt themselves in a field like this.

From the perspective of those who want to attract women in their open tech positions, it can be valuable to know what they look for. For 35% of women already working flexibility is a priority. The same percentage expressed regard for work-life balance in tech.

Other priorities they noted included the opportunity to connect with mentors (26%) and further training (21%).

But they also are looking for the possibility of career advancement as shown by other women who have made it up a higher rung on the corporate ladder. Its the consensus of 95% of the women surveyed that: Highlighting women in leadership positions was very to somewhat effective when it came to recruiting female talent.

The reason there are far fewer women at the top in tech is that about half of them drop out at some point in their 30s, according to a Harvard Business Review special report.

This is why retention is as important as recruitment in achieving parity. The women surveyed offered their answers to the question: What is your driving motivation for continuing to work in IT/technology over other fields?

Some of the answers echoed the list of motivations for entering the field, though in somewhat different levels:

But its not just about a fulfilling outlet or time for family. The top consideration in making a career of tech was: Compensation for effort.

Furthermore, which 58% of women identified among the top three reasons for working in tech.

That was followed by job stability for 45% and: "opportunities for personal growth" for 44%. Flexibility and work-life balance only ranked fourth and fifth, garnering 38% and 36% respectively.

The same concerns come across in the recommendations women wrote in for retention, though the percentages shift somewhat. The recommendation offered by 46% was centered on offering training, growth opportunities and support.

However, some merge that with women in leadership, as evidenced by the quotes:

Make a conscious effort to promote female talent. And: More women in leadership.

Flexibility was suggested by 29%. One of the quotes reflected the level of detail that can only come from direct experience:

What this also reveals is that women dont want to suffer any career setbacks for the perk of flexibility. They dont want to be mommy tracked.

Close to a quarter (24%) also pointed out the need to address and correct bias in culture.

Strive for a culture that includes women in key roles so female talent can see a career path, suggested one.

Another put it in more concrete terms:

Treat women with equal opportunity as men. Do not talk over women or treat women as emotional beings.

While pay was identified as primary priority for women, only 12% mentioned pay equity in their recommendation. It is possible, however, that they considered included in the recommendations to address bias and offer opportunities for advancement.

Certainly the cultural aspect is implied in one of the quotes: Pay women well and hire men who are professional and capable of working well with women.

As we saw in Minding the Gender Gap, women are far from equal in the tech field, holding just about a quarter of the positions and getting paid close to 12% less than their male counterparts.

What they want is what men want, which is to be taken seriously about their career choice and given the opportunity to advance according to their merit without any bias against their sex holding them back.

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The Lake Catholic wrestling team is flying under the radar this week. They might even feel a little disrespected.

That's OK with them.

When the Cougars' contingent of eight walks into the Jerome Schottenstein Center for the state wrestling tournament that will run March 13-15, they will do so without any projected state champions and as an afterthought by many, if not most, on the Division II state leaderboard.

Just the way they like it.

"I keep telling our guys the rest of the world is probably counting us out," said Coach Scott Hivnor. "I think we have the capabilities of getting many placers and several finalists and champions. We're more than capable of coming home with a trophy."

In the most recent rankings by IntermatOhio wrestling guru Josh Lowe, Lake Catholic is projected to place eighth in the Division II team race this weekend, with 113-pound Brendan McCrone (projected to finish as state runner-up) and 182-pound Cole Hivnor (projected to finish third) the only two wrestlers given a shot at state-title possibilities.

Not like they would know.

Scott Hivnor has put a gag order on his wrestlers looking at rankings or talking about them.

But they DO know not much is expected of them.

And that's part of their fire this weekend.

"I really don't look at them, per se," said junior Cole Hivnor, a two-time state placer of rankings. "I always know where I'm ranked. I know if I don't get beat, I'm not moving (in the ranks)."

Senior Nick Coreno, ranked eighth at 138, agrees.

"I never look at my weight class and division," he said. "I pretty much know who is in my weight class. It doesn't matter where anyone is ranked anyway."

Cole Hivnor, McCrone and Coreno will be joined in Columbus this weekend by freshman Brock Herman (106), sophomore Ethan Smith (132), junior Anthony Trivisonno (145), junior Rob Boley (160) and senior Owen Weaver (195).

Nearly two decades has passed since Lake Catholic had last sent eight wrestlers to the state tournament. The Cougars have accomplished that feat two years in a row.

"It says a lot," Cole Hivnor said of eight qualifiers this year. "Nobody thought we'd get eight. Our coaches the whole time said we were gonna get eight-plus. And that's what we did. We just trusted our training."

The Cougars feel their schedule this season has tested them well for what they're about to encounter at the state tournament.

A group of five Herman, McCrone, Coreno, Trivisonno and Hivnor wrestled in the Walsh Jesuit Ironman, touted as the toughest high school tournament in the country. The Cougars also took part in the Grizzly Invitational in Wadsworth, the North Canton tournament and the Brecksville Holiday Tournament, all featuring a Who's Who in Ohio wrestling lineup of teams.

Additionally, the Cougars advanced to the regional finals in the dual tournament, losing to Aurora, 31-30.

Even before all of that, five Cougars Smith, Boley, McCrone, Hivnor and Trivisonno wrestled in the freestyle nationals in Fargo, N.D. over the summer.

"I think that's a huge advantage our guys have," Scott Hivnor said of the Lake Catholic schedule. "We've wrestled the best kids in the country, not just the state. That makes tournaments like the state tournament a little less intimidating."

The current group of Lake Catholic wrestlers is a tight-knit group, Scott Hivnor said. They wrestled in the Lake youth club, all the way up through junior high, freestyle and now the state tournament.

"We've been all over the country trying to prepare our kids for big arenas and big venues," he said. "So when they get to state, they realize, 'Hey, we've wrestled in big places like this before.'"

The Cougars believe in themselves, their training, their schedule and where it's led them.

They believe, even if not everyone else does.

"These kids love each other support each other and want to win," Scott Hivnor said. "That culture is a big reason we are in this position right now."

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Niall Horan is motivated by the "thought of failure".

The 26-year-old singer - who is poised to release his second solo album, 'Heartbreak Weather' - has revealed that the fear of failing has fuelled his passion for his new record.

Asked what his career has taught him about the idea of success and failure, Niall shared: "You can sit there and dwell on the idea of failure, you can let it really upset you but it's going to damage your songwriting, which means you will fail. Or you can grab it by the scruff of the neck!

"For this album I've written my best stuff, because I wasn't in the studio every day going, 'Oh, this is going to be a disaster.' The thought of failure drives me to want to outdo myself all the time and be as big as I can.

"I did exams when I was in school and I'd walk in and just go, 'Well, I've already failed this. Is there much point?' And I've walked out of exams after 20 minutes. But there are times when you have to tell yourself the opposite."

Despite the pressures of fame, Niall is determined to live "as a normal life" as possible.

He told Glamour UK magazine: "I'm generally not an overthinker, but if I say it's going to affect me in some way, I'll think about it for a long time and that'd be it for a couple of days. Then it'll just be gone, and I'll be like, 'What was that about?'

"Personally, I try to live as a normal life as I can. I think that's helped. I try and do real normal things - which I know sounds crazy - like I'll go on the bus or the tube or go to the shop.

"That was stuff that I couldn't do before, I'll just hang around with my mates and just be really Irish about it by being quite reserved and keeping myself to myself. I think having the normal life and having the friends that I have I think has been huge for me, big time."

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With many companies in the UK now encouraging their staff to work from home, and an ever- increasing likelihood of a lockdown to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, masses of employees will be working remotely.

Although to some working from home is a dream situation, it comes with its challenges, and one of the biggest is how to stay motivated when youre working alone and remotely.

Jordan Baker, CEO of Sanity Marketing who has worked with over 650 clients from the House of Commons to the Crowne Plaza Hotel chain, has revealed five ways to stay motivated while working from home.

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Its easy when working from home to get comfortable wherever you please, whether its the sofa or your bed. But to increase productivity, its important to set up a home office or at least a set working desk to keep your mind work-focused and keep your work separate from other aspects of your home-life.

With no set starting or finishing time or public transport to catch, its easy to work too many hours or perhaps not enough hours. Setting a strict start time to your day and setting an alarm means you will be in a structured routine. Its also a good idea to have a dedicated finishing time so you dont work too many hours.

Particularly when working from home, its easy to fall victim to unhealthy snacking and sitting at your work desk for long periods of time. Ensure you take regular breaks and make healthy meals, and also incorporate exercise into your day, making sure youre not spending long, intense hours completing your work without moving.

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When youre wrapped up in completing your work, its easy to work all hours of the day without taking breaks. Its important to enjoy regular breaks in order to refresh the mind, and these can be in short, sharp bursts throughout the day. Its also important to stand up and move around to stretch your body out and be as comfortable as possible during your work.

Working from home can be lonely. Schedule some video calls with colleagues and contacts throughout the day. Some home-workers even work in chat-rooms with colleagues on in the background for that truly social office feel.

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Everyone needs a little encouragement from time to time, something that is on full display right here in this workout with a dog.

A clip of Magnus the therapy dog busting some killer moves with his owner has made the duo an exercise sensation on Instagram and Twitter. Magnus, you see, is a three-year-old Lab and certified therapy dog who clearly has a keen eye for subpar sit-ups and a take-no-prisoners attitude.

In the short video, Magnus spots his owner, rests atop him for some weighted pressups and just generally provides the most fitspirational company a gym-goer could dream of. Yes, Magnus even does the downward facing dog!

Magnus has collecting plenty of praise and admiration from the masses hopefully even the occasional doggie treat as a post-cardio snack because theres no excuse for skipping a set with mans best friend as a motivator. Personal training will never be the same again.

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Nearly a decade after his death, Jobs remains one of the most fascinating and iconic business leaders of the past century--and perhaps in all of history.

It was "very hard," Bouissoutold me when we talked afterward. "Steve, like Napoleon, had two faces. On one side he was a brilliant genius and a true misfit. And the other side, his lack of care and sensitivity for people, his disrespect and dictatorial behavior, were all real."

Here's the context, plus what it was like to work for Jobs, and how Bouissoulearned firsthand the unique way that Jobs could inspire and motivate employees.

Bouissou started at Apple in 1995, whileJobs was in exile, running NeXT. Ashe tells the story, he was an early advocate of e-commerce, and he wanted Apple to trysellingits products directly to consumers.

The idea fell flat when he pitched it to Apple's leadership. (In fairness, this was in the very early days of the consumer internet, when people could hardly imagine inputting a credit card number online.)

But then Apple bought NeXT, and when Jobs became CEO, he enthusiastically embraced the idea. As a result, Bouissou got his crash course in leadership, Steve Jobs-style.

Here's what he said he learned from the experience:

If you read no further, the most important thingBouissou learned from Jobs about leading people was the importance of always focusing on the right priorities.

"The first lesson was like, don't [just] focus but hyperfocus," he told me. "Think what really matters the most ... I think Steve had this unique ability, which I've never seen in anybody else. He exhibited an intense and obsessive focus."

Working on his e-commerce project, Bouissou said, the focus became largely about the user experience and the flow--all of which were new and relatively untried elsewhere at the time.

Bouissou technically had a boss between Jobs and himself, but he said Jobsdidn't seem to care about the organizational chart. He'd go around the bureaucracy constantly.

"Steve's way of managing people [was] that he basically goes over the boss and goes directly to you," Bouissou said. "So I had a number of interactions about the design of the online store, the user interface, the front end, and navigation. He was very involved and very picky and very on top of things."

I'm reminded here of a similar story I wrote last year, from when Jobs decided at the last minute in 2007 that he wanted real glass, not a plastic screen, on theiPhone. He got it done by skipping over all the development and sourcing specialists, and goingdirectly to the CEO of Gorilla Glass.

Having studied Jobsquite a bit,I found it interesting the degree to which Bouissou almost started to sound a bit like him as our interview went on.

This became most apparent when he talked about iteration and refining, so you can identify the one or two most important things to focus on. You do that, he says, on the basis ofhis time with Jobs, by trying big things and then stripping out the parts that turn out to be unimportant.

"Simplicity is hard," he said. "I think it takes many, many iterations to peel something to its core, to its most simple and most eloquent form of expression -- and really to its truth."

This is my favorite insight. It's about the ultimate reason for all that dedication to simplicity and focus. It should theoretically apply to just about any business.

"This is something I derived from working with Steve;it wasn't something that I've ever heard him say," Bouissou said. "But, if you think about it, what is the difference between Caterpillar, Farmers, Ford Motor Company, Krispy Kreme, or Pixar Animation Studios? All five companies are in the exact same business with the exact same goal and purpose, which is to manufacture and deliver delight."

With Jobs, he said, manufacturing delight was partially a matter of reacting to products and ideas with all five senses: How would they sound? How would they feel? Even, how would they smell?

The e-commerce project was a success, but Bouissou told me working for Jobs took a significant toll.

"You either stay married with me, or you marry Steve," his wife told him at once point. "I'm not going to go on like this."

By 1998, he'd moved on, but he found himself thinking about the experience.

Then, when Jobs died in 2011, he said, he went by the former CEO'shouse in Palo Alto, California, where he marveled at the array of "hundreds of artifacts and drawings and apples and poems and things" that people had left as a memorial.

"He was a remarkable man,"Bouissou said. "He was an exceptional man. I never met anybody like him."

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Harvey Barnes has admitted his Leicester City teammates were out for revenge after they thrashed Aston Villa in front of the Sky cameras.

The former West Brom loanee netted a brace as the Foxes thumped Villa 4-0 on Monday night, to strengthen their top-four hopes.

Villa's defeat at the King Power came only weeks after they dumped their Midlands rivals out of the Carabao Cup in dramatic fashion.

Dean Smith's men weathered a storm across the two legs, before Trezeguet scored an injury time winner to send Villa to Wembley.

And Barnes has told LeicestershireLive that those results gave them added incentive to get a result this time around.

It was a big match in more than one way," Barnes said.

The last time we played them in the cup, we were gutted at how that went.

We wanted to get revenge for how the cup games went. It was a motivation point for us. We were all so disappointed. I think that was probably one of the lowest points of the season so far.

So it was going to be a big game and we knew that. It was a bit of a local derby as well.

Plus, we were going in on the back of a few poor results as well. We knew we needed to get that first win under our belts again.

So for us to bounce back the way we did was great. We knew we owed them one and that showed in our performance.

Barnes opened the scoring in bizarre fashion with Pepe Reina flying out of his goal only to miss the ball and man completely. The winger would then go on to calmly stroke the ball past the helpless Tyrone Mings.

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On the goal, he said: It was about staying composed and hitting the target and obviously it found the net really well.

When you see the keeper coming out like that a lot of the time you want to try and lob him. But the way he came out I saw an opportunity to take it round him instead.

I was thinking: Dont clatter me here! But I thought I was always getting there first because there was a great weight on the ball from Marc [Albrighton]. I knew if I made that run Marc has that ball in him to just hit it down the line with great weight on it. As soon as I got it past the keeper it was a pretty open goal.

Then it was down to keeping my composure.

I found the right finish its always difficult for a defender running back to his own goal because hes got to sort his feet out. It was about getting power on the ball and hitting the target I dont think you can be too accurate in those circumstances. I hit the target and its crept in.

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Sunil Bharti Mittal is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, the third-largest mobile operator in the world in subscriber base, with presence in 18 countries.

Son of a politician from Punjab, Sunil Mittal is a first-generation entrepreneur who started Bharti Enterprises in 1976 at the age of 18. He started the company with an initial investment of Rs 20,000 that he borrowed from his father, and started manufacturing bicycles, before diversifying into other sectors. He entered the telecommunications industry in 1995.

Over the years, Sunil Mittal has won a number of awards and recognition. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, Indias third-highest civilian honour. And in 2016, he was elected as the Chairman of International Chamber of Commerce.

A self-made billionaire, Sunils net worth is estimated to be $9.7 billion as of March 12, 2020, according to Forbes.

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Sunil also owns Airtel Payments Bank, a niche bank which has 9.8 million active users as of September, 2019, in a joint venture with Kotak Mahindra Bank, which is controlled by billionaire Uday Kotak. Sunils son Kavin Bharti Mittal runs SoftBank-backed messaging service Hike, which is valued at $1.5 billion.

Here are some powerful quotes from the telecom tycoon to encourage aspiring and upcoming entrepreneurs.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

You never wait for perfect positioning, because in business you don't have the time; especially if you're small, you can't do it.

"For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile."

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia, and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the worlds second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

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Have you ever found yourself wishing that when it comes to caring for your wellbeing, you had just a little more motivation or willpower? After all, if you could just find a way to feel more motivated, surely it would be easy to get out of bed early each morning and make it to the gym. And if you just had a little more willpower, wouldnt it be so much easier to resist those sugary temptations you struggle to resist.

When it comes to changing our behaviors, the problem is that motivation and willpower are shape-shifters by nature, which makes them unreliable, explained Professor BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything when I interviewed him recently. For example, your motivation for self-improvement vanishes when youre tired, and your willpower decreases from morning to evening. In contrast, my research has found that by keeping changes small and expectations low, you can design around fair-weather friends like motivation and willpower.

BJ acknowledges that one tiny action to care for your wellbeing may feel insignificant at first, but it allows you to gain the momentum you need to ramp up to bigger challenges and faster progress. In fact, if you can get even 1% better each day for one year, youll be 365% better by the time the year is done.

So how can you make tiny changes that will improve your wellbeing?

BJs research has found that behavioral change happens when your motivation your desire to do a behavior your ability your capacity to do the behavior and a prompt a cue to do the behavior all come together at the same moment. He describes this as the Fogg Behavior Change Model, B = M + A + P, and we need all of these three to be present for an action to be taken.

BJ suggests that you can bring these elements together in seven simple steps:

What tiny changes can you make to improve your wellbeing?

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Personal trainer Sean Hawthorne asks, if we know what to do, then why dont we do it?

In part 1 of our discussion on willpower and motivation, I introduced Dr. Baumeisters Muscle Model of Willpower, the idea that our willpower, the strength to resist cravings or temptation, is akin to the physiology of our muscles it gets tired and can fatigue in the short term, but over time the more you work itthe stronger and more robust it gets. We also talked about willpower from the point of view of addiction and recovery and looked at the acronym H.A.L.T Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired and how these emotional and physiological states can jeopardize our plans for change by sapping our internal resolve.

In part 2 were going to talk strategies to help us avoid the first of these potentially sabotaging conditions, hunger.

Be prepared and plan ahead. In the nutrition component of all of my courses and training I talk about the need to maintain your blood sugar by eating regularly. This doesnt boost your metabolism, its boosts your willpower and allows you to stay motivated and on track. In the past, the idea of six small meals the mantra of meal frequency when I first started coaching others and competing in physique competitions was touted as a metabolic boost, a way to keep the internal fire burning brighter, but thats not the case, or the reason for the weight loss benefits some find with this eating pattern. Eating regularly and strategically can reduce total consumption (and overall calorie intake) by fueling your brain which boosts your willpower and strengthens your ability to resist deviating from the plan!

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Strategy and planning will best willpower every time, why struggle to resist when you can simply plan ahead? Lets take a look at the time between lunch and leaving work for home. Everyone I coach gets the same instruction if lunch is at 12:00 pm and you leave for home around 4:30 for 5:00 pm, youre ability to reduce your calories permanently relies on having a snack around 3:00 pm. Im not nearly as concerned with what as I am with when, because in order to make your change permanent it has to start with habits, those vital behaviours that are key to change. The best diet in the world the only one that will work is the one you dont know youre on!

Your personal food philosophies and nutritional core values might be based on spiritual, cultural, or even religious beliefs, which are not (in my opinion) up for negotiation. They might even be based on the latest trendy Netflix documentary (which is perfectly fine), just know that if you want to succeed maintain your willpower and your motivation and eat a snack before you leave work. I personally like an apple, it grew on a tree and a large one generally has less that 80 calories, its light on energy, dense on fiber and packed with nutrients.

In todays world of The seven secret hacks and super shortcuts to stratospheric success its crucial to recognize the long game and what it is youre actually looking for. I dont know why you or anyone else is looking to lose weight (your motivation ), but if its permanent, sustainable, lifelong change, it has to be based on you and your daily habits. In my experience changing your health and fitness or your body composition has to start with the understanding that using our willpower, our self-regulatory strength, is a last resort. Discipline, strategy and preparation are the vital behaviours crucial to making permanent changes.

In part 3 of this series on willpower and how to keep it strong for those times we actually need to rely on our resolve, were going to look at the emotional components of H.A.L.T and talk strategy to stay on track.

Sean Hawthorne is the owner and operator of OneLife Health and Wellness, Kelownas first and longest running private, personal training facility. While working in Dubai, UAE as a Contracts and Project Manager, Sean decided to leave his successful career in Civil Engineering Technology and pursue his passion for health, fitness and helping others achieve their goals. He returned to Canada in 2001, taking formal education in Exercise Science and starting his career in the field of health and fitness. Working in collaboration with their clients, Sean and his team of health and fitness professionals strive to continually improve their skills and to help everyone reach their goals.

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