Have you ever wanted to make a behavior change to your personal or professional life?
Maybe you want to start eating healthy, pick up a new hobby, or live a more organized life. Whatever your "big change" is, there are five simple steps you can take to help conceptualize lasting and impactful changes to your behavior.
All these steps are outlined in the Transtheoretical Model, a biopsychosocial model that incorporates five sequential stages to help you modify your behavior long-term.
If you're anything like me, you probably freaked out a little bit with the mention of the Transtheoretical Model. I mean, it sounds so serious. Thankfully, I know just the person who can help break it down for you into bite-sized chunks that you can follow and apply to your own life.
Meet Rachel Miller Kroouze, a Health Communication and Education professional with experience in health and prevention programming. Rachel has always been interested in health communication and helping others make positive health behavioral changes.
She's also an organizer at heart and has a lot to say about the Transtheoretical Model and how it can fuel positive behavior changes in just about anyone.
So, if you want to make some impactful changes to your personal or professional life using a tried and tested method with a proven track record of life-changing results, dig in!
Stage 1 – Precontemplation
The precontemplation stage is when you don't have any foreseeable intentions to change within the next six months. This is the very first stage of the Transtheoretical Model and you might not even notice you're in it or have been in it in the past.
You might have a few habits that aren't doing you any favors. You continue to do them because you aren't aware of the consequences. You're probably not even aware that a problem exists and if you do, you're ignoring it.
Or, you might have even tried to put a stop to them in the past but failed and continued along the same path. Thin