What would you like to change in your life? Be more focused at work?
Communicate more effectively? Find work-life balance? Make smarter
decisions? Be more patient with your team or family? Have greater
self-confidence? Less stress? Just . . . be happier?
Often, the biggest obstacle to change lies in our most deeply ingrained
habits: those automatic thought processes that operate outside our
consciousness, and yet have a profound impact on our behavior, shaping
everything from how we respond to challenges to how we engage with
others.
The good news is that we can literally rewire our mental habits for the
better. In Habit Changers, executive coach M.J. Ryan shares the secret
weapon that has helped her highest performing clients improve their
focus, better manage under pressure, enhance their emotional
intelligence, become more effective leaders, and more.
Inspired by the Buddhist tradition of Lojong, or slogan practice, habit
changers are simple, one-line aphorisms that, when recited, reprogram
your brain's automatic responses. Here, Ryan explains how to use the 81
Habit Changers that have demonstrated the most profound and lasting
results. They include:
- You can't say yes if you can't say no
- Don't push buttons that don't need to be
- Handshake your fear
- Stand where you'd rather not
- Remember your highest intention
- Outsource your worry
- Reach for the better thought
Our capacity to change is our greatest gift as human beings. Habit
Changers will help you take control of your destiny and more easily
achieve the success and happiness you desire.
