Rick Baker Thought Posts
Left Menu Space Holder

About the author

Name of author Rick Baker, P.Eng.

E-mail me Send mail
Follow me LinkedIn Twitter

Search

Calendar

<<  April 2024  >>
MoTuWeThFrSaSu
25262728293031
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293012345

View posts in large calendar

Recent Comments

Comment RSS

CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #6

by Rick Baker
On Feb 4, 2010
MotivAider…A Tool for Change For The Better
 
This is the 6th blog in a 10-blog series about Habits, doing New Things, and Change.
 
This is one example of a New Thing, a tool, one could use to remove a Bad Habit and create a Good Habit…
 
The MotivAider®
[http://www.habitchange.com]
 
I bought one of these tools to learn what caused these folks to create the product and to see how it works. In the instruction manual, the MotivAider folks explain their thinking in straightforward words. They have concluded the human brain gets in our way when we try to change ourselves [let alone try to help others change].
 
The MotivAider people say,
 
What's wrong with the mind is that it has absolutely no built-in
mechanism for keeping good intentions on "the front burner."
 
So, they created a tool - the MotivAider - to ensure good intentions are repeatedly brought to the 'front burner'.
 
They describe how the MotivAider can be used to help a business person change his posture for the better…to help achieve the person's career goals. They also talk about other business applications such as improving customer relations. The MotivAider can also be used to help children develop Good Habits.
 
Another application: the MotivAider can be used to help people to stop biting their nails.
 
Speaking of nail biting, here's a quote from Anderson Cooper:
 
I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's
not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.
 
We all have good intentions that are quickly forgotten or replaced by other thoughts during the heat of our workday action. For example, we all want to have positive attitudes and be optimistic…yet, often during the heat of 'battle' we revert to far-less-productive Bad Habits. That's the main reason I created P=2S+O©.
 
In the next blog I will take a look at what Dr Daniel Amen [author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life] has to say about Habits…and the realities about whether or not and how people may Change For The Better.

Comments (1) -

Rick Baker Canada
1/8/2011 9:27:01 PM #


"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."

Mark Twain

Add comment

biuquote
Loading

Copyright © 2012. W.F.C (Rick) Baker. All Rights Reserved.