Stronger Health Coaching Principles

SHC applies five universal principles to successfully manage lifelong health.

#1 Define and Quantify

All information must be explicitly defined to be truly useful. In doing so, each detail is clearly communicated and measured. Vagueness and ambiguity result in misinterpretation, allow undefinable or meaningless goals, and may even harbor ill-intent. SHC maintains a Glossary page based on available medical terminology, personal interpretation of experts when medical literature is absent, and contrasting examples when necessary. SHC requires quantifiable objective data and subjective feedback for verifiable progress in each health priority. This principle delivers clarity in communication and verifiable, measurable results throughout the coaching process while eliminating ambiguity.

#2 Education via Diversified Expert Sources

Effective decisions for lifelong health emerge only from information acquired from an array of qualified sources with variation in expertise. This exposes a broader range of available options and refines selection to the few with robust, credible support. Reliance on a single source or limited information inevitably misses viable or even superior alternatives, overvalues biases, and fails to challenge extremes. SHC supports education by sharing and referencing a Sources page, which lists credible professionals from diverse backgrounds in each domain and specifies their expertise and achievements. Sharing source material provides the starting points for education, validation for all coaching advice, and an invitation to challenge SHC’s own biases. This principle delivers perpetual knowledge to independently navigate lifelong health strategies with diverse credible support and accelerated by recognizing and bypassing persistent weak claims.

#3 Sustainability and Flexibility

Proper health resolutions require sustainability and flexibility to be successful for a lifetime. This combination ensures actions can be applied as needed at any time while remaining adaptable to life’s inevitable changes. Any plan that sets an end date or yields inconsistent adherence is inherently unsuccessful long-term. Rigid protocols are self-limiting and cannot be adjusted, incompatible with the reality of constant change. SHC therefore implements a robust intake process to establish personal starting points and appropriate progressions. All resultant advice adheres to higher order principles, which relentlessly orient toward lifetime success by highlighting and guiding modification daily. This principle ensures preferred resolutions are also enduring yet adaptable throughout life.

#4 Everything's on a Spectrum

All variables exist on continuous spectrums, requiring individualized placement rather than absolute or universal standards. Further, any placement is variable within a personally relevant spectrum that also varies over time. These spectrums refine the application of other principles by personalizing variables, filtering source relevance, and resetting effective boundaries. Operating with absolutes disregards unique factors among individuals, assigns biased requirements for resources, and sets rigid standards for advice. SHC establishes general standards and starting points in the Glossary, Sources, and coaching process, which are then applied to each individual, personalized and continually refined. This principle focuses each principle on effective decision-making with present context.

#5 Long-Term Health Strategies

Health arises from the summation of all actions over a lifetime, although no singular action determines future health. Health is therefore a long-term outcome, requiring a long-term focus to understand the true value in any decision. Small positive habits compound into great rewards over years and decades, while the effects of major deviations wash away after a few weeks or months. SHC continually challenges clients to personally reflect on decisions, to learn to evaluate the consequences for the present and future self. This principle orients all principles toward a future of great health by providing the scale to calibrate each decision.