# 368 - Secret to maintaining your new years resolution - Dr Michelle Segar

Dr Michelle Segar is an award winning NIH funded researcher with at the University of Michigan with 3 decades of experience in helping people adopt healthy behaviours in a way that matches the complexity, the messiness and the unpredictability of everyday life. She is also the author of The Joy Choice, named as one of the best health books of 2022 by the Washington Post. In this episode we talk about the power of habits and the propensity of real life and its every day demands, to get in the way of our best laid plans to create new habits and adopt new behaviours. Expect to learn what a 'habiter' is and expect to learn what 'unhabiting' is. We learn about motivation and how we can harness it. Expect to hear about habit friction and what that is. We also discover what the three key decision disruptors that get in the way of habit formation are. We find out why Dr Segar doesnt like the term accountability when it comes to adopting new behaviours. And we discover the impact that guilt has when we fall short of our own expectations. There is really so very much that we discuss in this conversation and it is a real eye opener for anyone considering adopting a healthy fitness regime this new year, but in truth Dr Segar's thoughts, experience an insights on habits and behaviour change can really be applied to any field not just health and physical fitness. Check out Dr Segar's book and her research >> https://michellesegar.com/