What’s your biggest remaining challenge?
Here’s my favorite quote from one of the Influencer blog posts on how to recover from failure by Maxfield:
Did you know that successful people fail more often than losers do? It makes sense, right? They try more things, riskier things, and set their goals higher. So they fail more often, but they also succeed more [...]
Tue, October 21 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Strategy » 1 Comment
Finally! The final post in my Influencer series. What a great book.
If you haven’t read the first three posts, here they are:
One: What to change and how to want to change
Two: Personal strategies to change
Three: Social strategies to change
Tonight is the fourth and last post, focusing on structural (organizational) strategies to change. Patterson, et al, [...]
Thu, October 16 2008 » Motivation, Strategy » 3 Comments
Hi, all! I wanted to get back to business and continue to my third post (see first here and second here) about the Influencer by Patterson, et al.
So far, we talked about figuring out what to change, getting yourself to buy in to the change (for real), and the ways to actually make the change [...]
Thu, October 9 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Strategy, Support » 3 Comments
Hi, all! I wanted to continue to my second posts (see first here) about the Influencer by Patterson, et al.
But first, let me say, I really reflected on the last post. And, I feel really emotional about saying I believe, probably for the first time in my life, that I can do this. (Or else [...]
Mon, October 6 2008 » Humor, Motivation, Persistence, Progress, Strategy, Stress eating, Useful tools » 11 Comments
At my company, each quarter, the managers and executives read and discuss a book that’s particularly relevant to our goals, our values, and our mission. This quarter, we read Influencer by Patterson, et al. The book looks at how people successfully change behavior — basically “what it takes to change anything.”
Interestingly, it wasn’t just about [...]
Fri, October 3 2008 » Motivation, Persistence, Strategy, Useful tools » 11 Comments
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