Personality Highlights–How Can ISTJ Achieve Happiness and Health?

You get energized by remembering the details of positive recent and distant past experiences. You can achieve healthy habits through the drive to do what should be done.

Learn new information and skills to prepare for change by making connections to past experiences. Look for your motivation and decision for change based on objective information and logical rationale. Organize your life to accommodate the change.

Develop a health and happiness plan based on what has worked for you or others in the past. Most helpful is a structured plan with details of how you will organize your life to help you achieve your plan. Focus on immediate and tangible action steps. Address all of the necessary “how-to’s.”

Reinforce your new habits by triggering positive memories along the way to achieving your goal. Recall the details of enjoyable sensations while doing your health activity, such as the tasty, healthy meals or the bodily sensations of a favorite physical activity. Pay attention to the details of each experience and commit them to memory, such as locations of healthy items at the grocery store so the new routine becomes comfortable and familiar.

Do refreshing solitary activities to boost your energy to persist with your habit. Time spend time alone to reflect helps you identify and clarify solutions to barriers. Remember that you have the natural skill to plan and organize your environment to support the habit.

If you encounter setbacks, look for clues to understand what happened by looking back on the details of what happened. This will help you create new specific steps to help you succeed. Revise the plan to assure success next time. Make sure you address concerns you have about your safety in doing the plan.