Excuses, excuses: 11 health cop-outs that hold you back

By Jessie Knadler

Blame the clock for skipping exercise, even romance? Ruled by your sweet tooth? Quit whitewashing your bad behaviors. Instead, name your excuses and crash  through them.

As busy people know, coming up with good-for-you goals, such as snacking on more veggies or carving out enough "me time," isn't the issue. It's making them stick. But, thankfully, there is plenty of good science on how to make your health or fitness goals last for the long haul.

How? Successful changers seek out or stumble onto the right strategies. Weight loss, for instance, is challenging, but researchers have learned that regular weigh-ins increase the chances of success by more than 80%. And when you're trying to get yourself up off the couch, having a plan B (like using an exercise DVD when rain dampens your enthusiasm for a power walk) makes you 20% more likely to become a habitual exerciser.

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,

therefore, is not an act but a habit."
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Evaluating Business Performance

Evaluating your business is an important task of any business owner or manager. Whether the business is in its infancy or has a long and established history, having a system in place to monitor business performance will help ensure that trends are identified and problems are spotted early. There are several ways business performance is evaluated, but all methods fall into one of the two categories - qualitative or quantitative. When evaluating business performance, it is best to look at performance using a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques; doing so helps to provide context for the analysis.

Qualitative Business Analysis 
Qualitative means that the qualities of the business or issues are looked at, using interpretations. For example, when you poll job satisfaction, you are examining satisfaction qualitatively. While there is certainly a role for qualitative measures, for example how else could you measure job satisfaction, this category of evaluation is somewhat subjective and, as such, is vulnerable to different perceptions and interpretations. Similarly, depending on your industry measuring customer/client satisfaction ratings are equally crucial. The whole future of your business depends on ...

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