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Local expert says key to building successful routine is little changes

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By WKTV Staff
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It’s the little things that count when building a successful routine, according to professional speaker, corporate trainer, certified coach and author Michelle Steffes.

Steffes, who recently was honored as Byron Center’s Small Businessperson of the Year for 2019, sat down with WKTV volunteer anchor Meochia Thompson, to discuss the science of habits and how to build a successful routine.

“The science of habits is understanding how to manipulate the mechanics of your body to have habits that maintain,” Steffes said. “So it is looking at your life from the moment you wake up in the morning to when you close your eyes at night is really the key to maintaining longterm habits. 

“We all have intrinsic alarms clocks inside that go off so we need to set those alarm clocks by forming behaviors that will help us repeat those habits again and again.”

Steffes has completed more than 10,000 hours of study in neuroscience, physiology, and human behavior. Her studies and passion to see people win inspired her to release her book, “Your Journey to Greatness Through Routine: A Step by Step Guide to Creating a Success Routine” last year. In the book, she teaches people how to develop a successful routine.

“A success routine has to have several components to it. You have to have a time to unplug, a specific time to motivate and inspire everyday,” Steffes said, adding that it is a not difficult to create a successful routine as you are exchanging one thing for another. She also pointed out that it is simple things such as changing what you listen to that make the biggest impacts.”

The book includes case studies and online tools to help people build those successful routines. Steffes said it can take anywhere for 21 to 30 days for a routine to become a habit as the brain builds new pathways for that specific routine.

For more, visit Steffe’s website, ipvconsulting.com.

Snapshots: Wyoming and Kentwood fun news you need to know

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WKTV Staff

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Quote of the Day

 

“We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.”  — Virginia Satir, family therapist

 

Kentwood artist’s HUG exhibit an extension of who she is

 

Meochia Thompson with some friends in an earlier Hugs campaign.

 

You can find 2018 ArtPrize artist Meochia Thompson giving hugs at church events, retirement homes, or around the community. Now you can find the Kentwood woman downtown embracing strangers during ArtPrize for her entry HUG, a campaign that stands for “help uplift goodness”. To get the details, click here.

 

Stars of one ArtPrize exhibit is the Wyoming Police K-9 unit 

 

Nidal Kanaan’s ArtPrize piece “Blue Courage” can be found at Flaganan’s Irish Pub.

Inside Flanagan’s Irish Pub in downtown Grand Rapids, you can find food, drinks, and Nidal Kanaan’s ArtPrize entry “Blue Courage.” Photographing the Wyoming Police K-9 unit, Kanaan produced images that ArtPrize attendees will enjoy while stopping in for a quick refreshment. To get the details, click here.

 

WKTV wants the VOICES of not just artists, but the voters as well

Last year, VOICES debuted at ArtPrize Nine, introducing our 1958 Airstream trailer and collecting the stories of winning ArtPrize artists Daniel Oropreza and Sofia Hernandez Ramirez. This year, VOICES will again collect stories from artists. But we are also bringing our Voters Feedback Booth, right next to the trailer, where voters are encouraged to share what they voted on and why. For get the details, click here.

 

 

And today’s fun fact:
3 seconds

 

Hugs follow a 3-second rule. Ever wondered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 seconds, according to a 2011 study of the post-competition embraces of Olympic athletes.

 

Kentwood ArtPrize artist embraces diversity, looks to make impact at ArtPrize 10

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By Micah Cho

WKTV Intern

 

You can find 2018 ArtPrize artist Meochia Thompson giving hugs at church events, retirement homes, or around the community. Now you can find her downtown embracing strangers during ArtPrize for her entry HUG, a campaign that stands for “help uplift goodness” 

 

Standing 10 feet tall, Thompson is building a hug stage, a safe place located at Grand Rapids City Hall where strangers can gather to embrace each other.  An entry that is based on volunteer hugger groups of five or more can rent out the stage to give hugs. 

 

Meochia Thompson with some friends in an earlier Hugs campaign.

“I just love hugging people.” Thompson said. “I know how it feels to be alone…So I decided to create a hug campaign. I prayed about it and I’m like ‘okay God what do I do with this.’”  

 

Thompson’s campaign started four years ago in her hometown of Chicago. Money from her first campaign went to caregivers, people who bear the stress of taking care of other peoples loved ones.  

 

“I was able to raise $5,000 and I just started giving it out to caregiving organizations” Thompson said. “They’re not around people all of the time. They’re dying for a hug, they’re dying to be around the regular public.” 

 

Talking about hugging strangers, Thompson said there’s nothing weird about it. Showing compassion and love to people you don’t know is what Thompson said this whole campaign is about. 

 

A mock-up of the Hugs stage which is located at Grand Rapids City Hall.

“Every time that you hug somebody, it doesn’t matter what they did in their past. It doesn’t matter who they are now or how much money they have. When you hug somebody it’s not about any of that. It’s just about at that moment showing love for mankind.” Thompson said about hugging.  

 

Although winning ArtPrize would be a great accomplishment for a first time ArtPrize artist, Thompson has something bigger in mind.  

 

“My goal is to make Grand Rapids hug city; the place to be for a good hug”. 

 

If you would like to learn more about Thompson’s entry or would like to get involved yourself, visit her website mylifechats.com/hug.