Creating intrinsic motivation is the secret for producing sustainable health and wellness daily behaviors. Understanding “who” we are doing these health and wellness activities is when we create sustainable healthy behaviors. Your physical and mental health is foundational to your success on the job and at home. When departments provide incentives for healthy behaviors, they are giving perks that produce some results. To instill sustainable healthy behaviors, firefighters must understand “who” will benefit from them doing these healthy behaviors. Once they know their family, themselves, and their firefighter brothers and sisters will benefit, they will internally create their motivation to practice healthy behaviors habitually.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will learn a technique, to begin with “who” they want to do these healthy behaviors for on a routine basis. This understanding will spark an internal motivation that is powerful and long-lasting. The new knowledge and motivation modification will promote sustainable health and wellness behaviors.
Participants will gain an understanding of how to couple intrinsic motivation with extrinsic motivating elements to create an overall motivational philosophy that will provide effective and sustainable results.