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• Change Challenge 52: Week 2
  photo from Single Stone Studios   Now that you’ve worked through understanding your unique value, may reading the pictured Dr. Seuss quote illicit an automatic, “And, that’s a great thing!”  Not quite there yet?  Well, here’s part 2 of our Value challenge! Value:  Part 2 This week, dialogue through the same questions you personally contemplated last week wit […]
• How People Change: Memory (Part 6)
  People change by changing what they think.  We learned that in the last post.  If only it were that easy!  Sometimes it is.  Most of the time it’s not. Sometimes when my five year olds proclaim something, I will say, “Well, if you think THAT (whatever “that” is), then THAT is what is true.”  Or, “If […]
• Change Challenge 52: Week 1
    Value In our fast-paced, performance driven society, it is second-nature to think that our value is based on what we can offer other people.   How often do we think of value in terms of who we are instead of what we do? Yes, they are often interconnected, but we tend to focus on the “doing” […]
• It’s Here! Change Challenge 52!!
  Dear Friend, Happy Valentine’s Day!  And, because we love you and love to see change in you, I Choose Change is launching our Change Challenge 52 today.  Read on to find out exactly what this challenge is, and what our incentive is for you to finish up the year strong (and, perhaps, with a ton of […]
• How People Change: Think! (Part 5)
    In my last post on “How People Change,” I talked about thoughts.  More specifically, what a thought is – judgment, opinion, perception, implication, assumption, etc.  I shared the definition of thought, which is: Thought: To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment. To weigh or consider an idea. To […]
• How People Change: A Thought To Consider (Part 4)
  In my previous posts, I discussed the TEA process.  Specifically, we dug into extreme actions and extreme emotions. Here’s a summary of what we talked about:  Without actions, we simply have an emotion that isn’t expressed.  Emotions on the other hand occur all day, everyday, and come in three distinct varieties:  numb, normal, and extreme. Numb simply […]
• How People Change: Feelings…Nothing More Than… (Part 3)
    Notice our little man has grown since my last post!  Last time I talked about actions that were either internal or external (acting out or acting in).  This time, I’ll be talking about feelings…nothing more than, feelings… Ahem. There really are only two types of emotions, and we can call them “good” and “bad.”  Clients only come […]
• How People Change: Actions Speak (Part 2)
    Yesterday I posted the super-simple initial process of change.  On paper, it seems very easy – and it is! Thoughts create emotions.  Emotions create actions. It stands to reason that if you change what you’re thinking, you’ll change what you’re feeling, right?  In theory, that is absolutely correct! So, process done. Well, not so fast… There’s more to chan […]
• How People Change: Let’s Have TEA… (Part 1)
  Over the next several weeks, I’m going to have a new feature on the I Choose Change blog.  I’m going to outline, just as I do in most all of my sessions, the process of change. (You might also be wondering why I included a picture of 7-Eleven on this post.  You’re about to see…) In almost […]
• Gearing Up: Change Challenge 52
  We’re gearing up for Change Challenge 52! And, we hope you’ll start gearing up, too. Change Challenge 52 is our call to action. It’s our way of motivating YOU to make one small step toward the larger goal you’d like to change. In the next few days, we’ll show you just how we’re going to motivate […]