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When Feeling Awkward Gets In The Way Of Change
Have you ever wanted to try something new but because it felt awkward you backed away from the change and went back to what felt more comfortable, even though part of you really wanted to persist with the change? I … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Values, Work
Tagged Behavior Change, Handling Difficult Thoughts, Values and Behaviour, Willingness
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Noticing How Desire Can Pull You Away From Your Values
When does desire pull you away from your values? It might be the impulse to buy more stuff that you don’t really need; watch TV instead of doing some exercise; let work dominate your life; make poor choices that change your … Continue reading
Could It Be Helpful To Focus On Your Mistakes?
Do you have a tendency to focus on your mistakes? To notice the 5% of your presentation that wasn’t as good as it could be? To really remember and mentally grind over the times when your work was mediocre or … Continue reading
The Different Motivational Properties of Values and Goals
When committing to a new course of action it’s useful to distinguish between values and goals because they have different motivational properties. Goals can be achieved. This is why they motivate – we enjoy the feeling of purpose and progress … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Decision making, Meaning, Values
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How You Can Make 2013 A Successful Year
So here we are in 2013. What will it take for you to define this year as successful? Let’s start by looking back on 2012. What did you achieve? What mistakes did you make? Where do you feel you failed? … Continue reading
Happy Christmas! (?)
Christmas is a time which for me has always been associated with pressure, comparisons and evaluations. There was always a sense that other people, somewhere ‘out there’ were doing Christmas properly and that somehow I was not meeting that standard. … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour change, Uncategorized, Values
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How Moments of Joy and Pain Can Help You Work Out What Really Matters To You
In this noisy world, where we are bombarded with messages telling us what to think and do, it can be hard to work out what is really important to us. In this Big Think Interview, Steve Hayes gives two suggestions for … Continue reading
Tackling Our Culture of Cruelty
A recent Panorama investigation found systematic abuse of elderly residents going on in a UK care home. Some of the most vulnerable people in our society were being ritually abused by their so-called carers: On the top floor of a … Continue reading
Find Your Passion At Work! (Just Don’t Expect to Feel Passionate About It When You Do)
One of the reasons I left consultancy is because I felt that the work was meaningless. In meetings I would try not to fall asleep as people droned on about project dependencies and stakeholder management and at the weekend all … Continue reading
Psychological Flexibility in Difficult Conversations
It struck me that psychological flexibility is very powerful in relationships, and particularly in having difficult conversations. However, this is something I rarely talk about on this blog (Rachel maybe more so). So I thought sharing a personal example of … Continue reading
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