Planning for changes in your life
Planning for changes in your life
CH 17
Motivation
• Develop the willingness or desire to change. After making a honest commitment to change, you must find ways to maintain your motivation. The key to staying motivated is to develop a mindset strong enough that you feel compelled to act on your desire to change.
Knowledge
• Once you clearly understand the benefits of breaking a habit or forming an new one, you must acquire the knowledge you need to change. Ask for advice, learn from the experience of others, find a mentor, or even teaching yourself.
Practice
• Information is only as useful as you make it. This means, to change your behavior you must practice what you have learned. Start thinking positive, change you behavior, change How you treat others and how you approach others.
Feedback
• Whenever you can, seek feedback from others as you attempt to change a habit. Dieters lose more weight if they attend counseling sessions and weigh-ins. People who want to improve their public speaking, or even improving in a sport, benefit from practice by feedback from a teacher or coach. Everyone has blind spots, especially when trying something new.
Reinforcement
• When you see yourself exhibiting the type of behavior you have been working to develop, or when someone mentions that you have changed.
Reward yourself! The rewards can be simple, inexpensive ones. Treating yourself to a movie, your favorite meal, or even a special event. This type of reinforcement is vital when you are trying to improve old behaviors or develop new ones.
Change video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkH3qkUl1BU
The choice is yours
• One of the positive aspects of personal planning is that you are making your own choices. You decide what kind of person you want to be and then set your own standards and goals. The results can mean not only career advancement and financial benefits, but also greater happiness and personal fulfillment. References
• Steps to create lasting changes
CH 17
Motivation
• Develop the willingness or desire to change. After making a honest commitment to change, you must find ways to maintain your motivation. The key to staying motivated is to develop a mindset strong enough that you feel compelled to act on your desire to change.
Knowledge
• Once you clearly understand the benefits of breaking a habit or forming an new one, you must acquire the knowledge you need to change. Ask for advice, learn from the experience of others, find a mentor, or even teaching yourself.
Practice
• Information is only as useful as you make it. This means, to change your behavior you must practice what you have learned. Start thinking positive, change you behavior, change How you treat others and how you approach others.
Feedback
• Whenever you can, seek feedback from others as you attempt to change a habit. Dieters lose more weight if they attend counseling sessions and weigh-ins. People who want to improve their public speaking, or even improving in a sport, benefit from practice by feedback from a teacher or coach. Everyone has blind spots, especially when trying something new.
Reinforcement
• When you see yourself exhibiting the type of behavior you have been working to develop, or when someone mentions that you have changed.
Reward yourself! The rewards can be simple, inexpensive ones. Treating yourself to a movie, your favorite meal, or even a special event. This type of reinforcement is vital when you are trying to improve old behaviors or develop new ones.
Change video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkH3qkUl1BU
The choice is yours
• One of the positive aspects of personal planning is that you are making your own choices. You decide what kind of person you want to be and then set your own standards and goals. The results can mean not only career advancement and financial benefits, but also greater happiness and personal fulfillment. References
• Steps to create lasting changes
References: • Steps to create lasting changes in your life, By: Kate Corrinne • Words of affirmation for positive change. By: Dr. Bill Tollefson