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What if the weight we're really carrying isn't on our bodies at all? I walk through five things I've watched show up again and again in every real transformation I've witnessed — in my own life, with my coaching clients, and on the teams, I led over 31 years in public service — honesty, acceptance, commitment, humility, and love. And how each one helps you set down whatever's heavy right now, whether that's a habit, a relationship, a job, or anything else.

“Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They're not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.”

— Byron Katie

• Hayes, S.C., Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; ACT-for-weight research reviewed in Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Weight, Eating Behaviours and Psychological Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Eating and Weight Disorders (2023)

• Ferrari, J.R., Groh, D.R., Rulka, G., Jason, L.A. & Davis, M.I., Coming to Terms With Reality: Predictors of Self-Deception Within Substance Abuse Recovery, Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment (2008)

• Ayres, I., Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done; Milkman, K., How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be; commitment-making research reviewed in The Effect of Commitment-Making on Weight Loss and Behaviour Change in Adults with Obesity/Overweight, BMC Public Health (2019)

• Collins, J., Good to Great (Level 5 Leadership); Chandler, J.A. et al., A Meta-Analysis of Humble Leadership: Reviewing Individual, Team, and Organizational Outcomes of Leader Humility, The Leadership Quarterly (2023)

• Waldinger, R., The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness; Harvard Study of Adult Development (adultdevelopmentstudy.org)

Let’s go, let’s get it done.

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