The main reason people come to see me is to change their life. That’s why I blog about that topic so much.
On this page, I pull together the blog posts that I think have the greatest potential to change your life.
This is what I often tell people: What you pay attention to changes the state of your brain. And what you pay attention to consistently changes the shape of your brain.
To change your life, change your behaviour. To change your behaviour, change your brain. To change your brain, change your thinking.
Here are some resources and techniques for that.
Planning Your Change
Changing your life requires a plan.
- 7 Steps to a Change Plan (which later became the basis for my free course, 7 Steps to Effective Personal Change)
- When is a good time to make personal life changes? (You may be surprised.)
- Without a plan, New Year’s resolutions mostly fail
Clearing Away Barriers to Change
An important one of the 7 Steps is removing barriers. Here are some ways to do that:
- How to get motivation for any change
- How to get unstuck
- How to come out of your trance
- 7 steps to confident action
- The Paramount Pictures technique for crushing fear like a beer can
- Better living through time travel: Part 1 (fixing the past), Part 2 (back to the future), Part 3 (the motivational time tour)
Change Techniques: Implementing the Plan
I did a series on change techniques which later became part of a free ebook (included in 7 Steps to Effective Personal Change). That ebook also includes:
- A simple mood control technique and how it works
- Why it’s hard to change habits, and how you can change them anyway
- The number one technique you need to change your life
Maintaining Positive Change
- Personal contact with a coach or therapist helps maintain positive life changes (and you can contact me here about personal development coaching)
- Motivation is such a big topic I gave it its own page
- You can learn perseverance as a skill and build your self-efficacy (essentially, your justified belief that you can achieve things)
- Regular practice is the best path to change
- There are at least 10 ways to cultivate a positive habit
Deepening the Change
Changing who you are changes how you are with other people. To make sure this goes well, take a look at:
You may also hit internal resistance. To get past this, hold a parts conference and make an alliance with yourself.
How I change my life
I use these techniques myself. I talk about that in how to find your way in less than 20 years and beginning to teach about jade.
What’s your next step? Why not sign up for 7 Steps to Effective Personal Change? (It’s free.) Or if you’re ready to go deeper, talk to me about personal development coaching.
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