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Authentic Change and the Role of Choice

Everywhere you look, in popular magazines and on media websites like the Huffington Post, there seem to be countless articles outlining the five or six essential steps to follow for some type of self-improvement. Americans are fixated on personal growth — becoming more effective in their professions, happier and more tranquil in their private lives, less depressed with higher self-esteem and a more satisfying sex life. The website on which you’re reading this post is devoted to promoting change. We all want to grow and change for the better.

In my experience, however, most people change very little over the course of their lives. They tend to become more the way they already are.

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Why Most People Fail at Change (& How to be Successful)

By R.C. Thornton / 23 Comments

Let’s say you want to become more productive. You Google “productivity tips”, and 46 million links appear. Click on a couple, and you notice most of them are lists of information, usually bullet-points like “use an organizer”, “keep your desk clean”, or “don’t take ‘Facebook breaks’ while you’re working!”.

So you try to use an organizer, keep your desk clean, and decide not to look at Facebook once every 2.8 minutes. Do you know what happens next? It’s what happens to most people. You slowly forget…forget that you wanted to be more productive, and that you made these little promises to yourself about using an organizer. And you’re back to where you started, except this time, you probably think you “can’t” become more productive.

Isn’t that what usually happens? Why is that what usually happens?

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The 3 Requirements for Effective Change

By Robert Chen / 38 Comments

I’ve always been interested in change. How to change, why people change, why people resist change, why people who want to change fail at changing … you get the point.

What makes change so compelling for me? Change is what moves you forward in life.

People resistant to change usually fall under 2 groups:

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The First Step Toward Personal Change

By Angela Irvin / 24 Comments

How is life defined? Is it the process of breathing? Or, is it the state of consciousness? Of course, it’s both of those things. However, if today was our last day on earth and we were asked to

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How a Personal Mission Statement Can Help You Change

By Peter Clemens / 10 Comments

“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.” – Stephen R. Covey

Wow. What a powerful quote. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is one of my most treasured self improvement books. I have read it a few times now and regularly pick it up from my bookshelf to consult particular sections.

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