Personal Development Health & Wellness

Building Healthy Habits

A practical, evidence-based course for creating routines that stick, with Professor Christina Ross

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Quick Course Facts
16
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
16
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
4.8
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Building Healthy Habits Course

Building Healthy Habits is a practical Personal Development course designed to help you create routines that stick and make meaningful change feel manageable. With Professor Christina Ross, you’ll learn evidence-based strategies for turning good intentions into lasting actions so you can improve your daily life with more consistency and less effort.

Build Healthy Habits That Last With A Practical System

  • Learn the science of habit formation and how to apply it to real-life change
  • Turn vague goals into clear, realistic actions you can follow consistently
  • Use cues, triggers, and habit stacking to make positive behaviours easier to repeat
  • Create a sustainable personal habit plan that supports health, recovery, and follow-through

A practical, evidence-based course for creating routines that stick, with Professor Christina Ross.

This Building Healthy Habits course gives you a clear, step-by-step framework for developing healthier routines without relying on motivation alone. You’ll explore how habits form, why some behaviours stick while others fade, and how to choose the right targets so your effort goes toward changes that truly matter. By focusing on small, repeatable actions, the course helps you build momentum in a way that feels realistic and sustainable.

Throughout the lessons, you’ll learn how to make goals specific, design effective reminders, reduce friction, and use your environment to support better choices. You’ll also discover how to track progress in a way that reveals what actually works, how to recover after setbacks without losing progress, and how to shape an identity that supports long-term follow-through. These tools are especially valuable for anyone interested in Personal Development, because they help you build systems instead of depending on willpower.

The course also applies habit-building principles to daily recovery, sleep, nutrition, movement, time management, and stress reduction, helping you create healthier routines across multiple areas of life. By the end, you’ll have a personalized action strategy and a stronger understanding of how to design habits that fit your real life. After taking this course, you’ll be better equipped to follow through on your goals, maintain healthier routines, and become someone who can trust their own consistency.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

The Science of How Habits Work

1 lesson

This lesson explains how habits form so learners can stop guessing and start designing routines that are easier to repeat. Professor Christina Ross breaks down the habit loop, the role of cues and rew…

Choosing the Right Behavioural Targets

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Identifying Habits That Matter

18 min
This lesson helps learners choose the right habits to work on first by focusing on what matters most, what is realistic to change, and what will create the biggest payoff in daily life. Rather than tr…

Turning Intentions Into Clear Actions

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Making Goals Specific and Realistic

18 min
This lesson shows how to turn a vague wish into a habit goal you can actually follow. Professor Christina Ross explains how to make goals specific, realistic, and measurable so they fit your current l…

Designing Reliable Reminders

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Using Cues and Triggers

18 min
In this lesson, Professor Christina Ross explains how cues and triggers make habits more reliable by linking an action to a clear prompt in your environment or routine. You will learn how to choose cu…

Consistency Before Intensity

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Building Habits Through Repetition

18 min
This lesson explains why repetition is the engine of habit formation and how to use it without relying on motivation. Learners will see how small, repeatable actions create automaticity, why consisten…

Making Healthy Choices Easier

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Creating Supportive Environments

18 min
Supportive environments make healthy habits easier to start and easier to keep. In this lesson, you will learn how to design your surroundings so the desired choice requires less effort, fewer decisio…

Linking New Behaviours to Existing Ones

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Stacking Habits Into Routines

18 min
This lesson shows how to turn a single healthy action into a reliable routine by attaching it to something you already do. You will learn how habit stacking works, why it reduces decision fatigue, and…

Removing Barriers to Follow-Through

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Reducing Friction and Resistance

18 min
Every healthy habit becomes easier when you reduce the effort required to start and continue. In this lesson, Professor Christina Ross shows how to identify friction points in your routine and remove …

Measuring What Actually Helps

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Tracking Progress Effectively

18 min
Tracking progress works best when it measures the habit you are trying to build , not just the outcome you hope to reach. In this lesson, you will learn how to choose simple, reliable indicators, avoi…

Why Motivation Fades and What To Do Instead

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Using Motivation Wisely

18 min
This lesson explains why motivation feels strong at the start of a habit change and then fades when real life gets in the way. You’ll learn how to stop relying on motivation as your main strategy and …

Recovering Without Losing Momentum

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Handling Setbacks and Missed Days

18 min
This lesson teaches a practical way to respond when a habit is interrupted by a missed day, a bad week, travel, illness, or a change in schedule. The goal is not to avoid setbacks entirely, but to rec…

Becoming the Kind of Person Who Follows Through

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Shaping Identity-Based Habits

18 min
This lesson explains how identity-based habits work: when your actions are tied to who you believe you are, follow-through becomes easier and more consistent. Instead of chasing motivation or perfecti…

Foundations for Daily Recovery

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Designing Habits for Energy and Sleep

18 min
This lesson shows how to design habits that support better energy during the day and more reliable sleep at night. Rather than relying on willpower, you will learn how to shape cues, timing, environme…

Practical Changes for Healthier Living

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Applying Habits to Nutrition and Movement

18 min
This lesson shows how to apply habit-building principles to two of the biggest drivers of health: nutrition and movement. Instead of chasing perfection, learners focus on small, repeatable actions tha…

Keeping Your System Sustainable

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Managing Time, Stress, and Habit Overload

18 min
This lesson shows how to keep healthy habits sustainable when life gets busy. You will learn how to protect a habit system from time pressure, stress, and overload by reducing friction, setting realis…

Creating Your Long-Term Action Strategy

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Building a Personal Habit Plan

18 min
This lesson helps learners turn habit ideas into a realistic long-term action plan. They will choose one priority habit, define when and where it will happen, remove friction, prepare for likely obsta…
About Your Instructor
Professor Christina Ross

Professor Christina Ross

Professor Christina Ross guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.