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Small move, big change : using microresolutions to transform your life permanently / Caroline L. Arnold.

Summary:

"A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we're always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold's guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. A microresolution is easily kept and designed to nail a self-improvement target exactly and deliver benefits immediately. While the traditional resolution promises rewards on a distant "someday," a microresolution rewards us today by instantly altering our routines and, ultimately, ourselves. A wife, mother, and business innovator, Arnold uses her own successes and failures as case studies. Contrasting her career success with her personal resolution failures, Arnold recounts how by analyzing her own behavior she was able to reengineer her resolutions so that they were guaranteed to succeed every time, from losing weight to improving key relationships. Providing scores of engaging examples from the wide circle of colleagues and friends who practice her microresolution method, Arnold also shows how her system is supported by new willpower and habit science"-- Provided by publisher.
"A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we're always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold. Small Move, Big Change is Arnold's guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780670015344
  • ISBN: 0670015342
  • Physical Description: xxxii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Why resolutions fail -- The seven rules of microresolutions. How to make a microresolution ; Don't make resolutions you can't keep ; Doing it ; Instant gratification ; Made to measure ; Give it some spin ; Trigger happy ; Practice makes permanent ; Test-driving your resolution -- Microresolutions in action. Sleep ; Fitness ; Diet and nutrition ; Clutter ; Relationships ; Spending ; Punctuality ; Organization -- Afterword: Beyond autopilot.
Subject: Change (Psychology)
Self-control.
Success.
Achievements (Heraldry)
Adaptation, Psychological.
Inhibition (Psychology)

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
North Kansas City Public Library 158.1 ARNOLD 2014 (Text) 0001001915279 Nonfiction Available -


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