The document discusses using personality strengths to build healthy habits. It recommends making tiny changes that you feel confident in, following your progress, and rewarding yourself. Your personality affects how you are motivated to make habits, learn new skills, experience the world to support habits, arrange your world to fit habits, and follow your progress. Building habits focused on your personality strengths can feel more comfortable and help new healthy activities become automatic habits.

1. Use Personality Strengths to Build
Health and Happiness Habits!

2. What is the Secret to Building
Healthy Habits?
Make sure to:
 Plantiny changes that you
are confident you can do
 Follow
your progress and
reward yourself (in a healthy
way!)

3. A new way to build healthy habits uses the
comfort zone and strengths of your individual
personality!

4. Your Personality Type Affects
How You:
 Are motivated to make a new habit
 Learn skills needed to do the new habit
 Experience the world to support the habit
 Arrange your world to fit the habit
 Follow your progress

5. Motivation to Change
 Are you motivated by what is
personally important and your
deeply held values…
 Or by what makes logical sense
and can be organized into a
system?

6. Learning New Habit Skills
 Do you prefer to learn through
direct experience and step-by-
step instructions...
 Or by first seeing how the habit
fits with the vision for your life and
your insights about what will work
best?

7. Choosing Healthy Activities
 Do you prefer activities that
allow you to reflect on familiar
activities and repeat them…
 Or do you prefer to explore new
possibilities along the way?

8. Following Progress
 Do you enjoy tracking data and
analyzing trends—for example,
number of steps walked and
calories eaten…
 Or focusing on how your
progress is affecting and
involving others?

9. Planning and Scheduling
 Do you prefer a plan that
lists specific activities and
has a schedule…
 Or a plan that allows for
several options to reach
the same basic goal and a
flexible schedule?

10. To Sum Up…
 Consider building health
habits by focusing on your
personality strengths!
 Making change this way
can feel more comfortable
so that a new healthy
activity becomes automatic
—a health and happiness
habit!
 HealthType™ can help
you do this!
 Best wishes for your habit
change success!