By Dr. Harry Tennant
Friday, September 9, 2011 Can you can change anything?The book Change Anything: The new science of personal success by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler brings together ideas and prescriptions for change. The premise is that expecting to change yourself in significant ways based on will power alone is likely to fail. Successful change is not a matter of will power but is based on a collection of skills. And the good news is, the skills can be developed. Six sources of influence and what to do about them
Turn bad days into good data I like their approach of viewing yourself as a subject of study rather than as someone who shall be judged based on behavior. We all stumble along the way. The point is to learn from the mistakes and move on. That's how you change a bad day into good data. You may look at this table and think, I know all that stuff. Nothing new here. But here's the point: knowing it doesn't help much. They key is to develop and apply the skills. There are lots of forces in our lives enticing us to our undesirable behaviors. It takes serious effort to counteract those and make change happen. The more of these skills that support change you can bring to bear simultaneously, the greater the likelihood of successful change.
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