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CHANGING FOR THE BETTER: Good Habits, Bad Habits, & New Things - #3

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People only do 3 things: (1) Good Habits, (2) Bad Habits, and (3) New Things.
 
This is the 3rd blog in a 10-blog series about Habits, doing New Things, and Change.
 
To do better, to grow our businesses and to prosper, we must help people make Changes For The Better. And to make Change we must replace Bad Habits with Good Habits. Often, we can change Bad Habits into Good Habits by doing New Things…ie, doing New Things specifically designed to remove the Bad Habit and create the Good Habit.
 
The next 6 blogs will present some example of ideas, tools, and techniques aimed at helping people create positive Change.
 
A summary of blogs to follow:
 
Blog 4: Five Unusual Ideas About Change…John Oesch, PhD
Blog 5: Psycho-Cybernetics…Dr Maxwell Maltz
Blog 6: MotivAider®…a habit-changing tool
Blog 7: Physiology & Change Your Brain, Change Your Life…Dr. Daniel Amen
Blog 8: Human Strengths & Weaknesses: StrengthsFinder…Marcus Buckingham
Blog 9: A New Habit, P=2S+O©…a habit-changing tool
Blog 10: Wrap-up discussion
 
To create Change For The Better people need to consider New Things and develop Good Habits.
 
To develop Good Habits people need to be open to considering new ideas and new tools.
 
The next blog will introduce John Oesch's Five Unusual Ideas About Change.

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Rick Baker ·

"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

rick baker ·

“Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.” Maxwell Maltz 'Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life', (1960)

rick baker ·

"When you're finished changing, you're finished." Benjamin Franklin