Common senseless

Why people change, who succeeds in making lasting change and how to achieve lasting change are just some areas studied. One of the greatest predictors of your ability to maintain behavior change, is to take a ‘practice makes perfect’ approach. Imagine two people being shown how to play a sport or an instrument and only one of those individuals practices? Naturally we expect the person who practices to do much better. Behavior change is no different. If your goal is to gain better control of your eating at social functions, naturally it is going to take a number of practice runs to get better. The greatest feature of the 'practice' approach is that it allows you to be less than perfect and still be successful.