How to Sell Kids on Vegetables - The New York Times
[http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/how-to-sell-kids-on-vegetables/?smid=fb-share] - - public:weinreich
Strategies for Enhancing Health in the Built Environment
Mental contrasting is essentially contrasting your happy, dream goal with your current reality, emphasizing the need for action, while implementation intentions are "if-then" statements about how you will deal with obstacles. The link goes to a journal article in which this combined technique was used to help women become more physically active, and the effect was sustained over months.