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CHANGES: The Busy Professional's Guide to Reducing Stress, Accomplishing Goals and Mastering Adaptability
Why do people struggle with creating the changes they say they want? With over a decade of work with thousands of clients in the fields of organizational consulting, executive coaching and psychotherapy, author Michael Diettrich-Chastain reveals the seven life dimensions that impact our ability to make professional and personal changes...as well as why we succeed at making certain changes and fail at others. Ever wonder why things aren't going the way you planned? Why things are happening TO you instead of YOU making them happen? Have you set out to create change in your life and then been drawn back into old patterns that you tried so hard to avoid? Do you know what questions to ask to get you moving and excited about your personal and professional life again?CHANGES will help you ask the right questions, integrate the various parts of your life experience, and translate understanding into behavior.
Stress, demands, assumptions, pressure, and expectations can often hijack our ability to create sustainable change. CHANGES is an evergreen resource that will assist busy professionals in reaching goals not yet accomplished, adapt to challenging circumstances, and reduce stress along the way. Savvy leaders will see the resources and tools in CHANGES as paramount to creating behavior change in themselves and those that they lead. Creating positive change in the individual translates into creating powerfully functioning teams and leaders. By connecting the seven different influences in our life experience, we can build the capacity to create change in any aspect of our life.Reduce your stress with actionable strategies that work and accelerate the discovery of what stressors are REALLY affecting your daily life.
Improve your ability to manage fear and increase your motivation while building greater personal and professional discipline. Uncover which specific aspects of your life (mental, emotional, physical, environmental and more) are helping or hurting your ability to make change.
Stress, demands, assumptions, pressure, and expectations can often hijack our ability to create sustainable change. CHANGES is an evergreen resource that will assist busy professionals in reaching goals not yet accomplished, adapt to challenging circumstances, and reduce stress along the way. Savvy leaders will see the resources and tools in CHANGES as paramount to creating behavior change in themselves and those that they lead. Creating positive change in the individual translates into creating powerfully functioning teams and leaders. By connecting the seven different influences in our life experience, we can build the capacity to create change in any aspect of our life.Reduce your stress with actionable strategies that work and accelerate the discovery of what stressors are REALLY affecting your daily life.
Improve your ability to manage fear and increase your motivation while building greater personal and professional discipline. Uncover which specific aspects of your life (mental, emotional, physical, environmental and more) are helping or hurting your ability to make change.
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308 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 6, 2019
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November 14, 2022
The main point of the book is valid and one that resonates: in order to make positive change in your personal and professional life, you must integrate the various parts of your lived experience holistically.
Cognition
Heart
Action
Nourishment
Guts
Environment
Spirit
A lot context is focused on professional situations. My main critique is that although the main acronym resonates and there is a dedicated chapter for each facet of it, the intermediary points often feel disjointed and kitschy at times. The first half of the book is littered with so many acronyms, there’s no way Il be able to remember them all and carry them through life. There are also some dated references and pushes for specific products/resources (which is neither good nor bad).
I’d recommend this to someone who is focusing on professional development and wants some inquisitive questions and activities to guide them in more in-depth sessions with a coach or mentor.
Cognition
Heart
Action
Nourishment
Guts
Environment
Spirit
A lot context is focused on professional situations. My main critique is that although the main acronym resonates and there is a dedicated chapter for each facet of it, the intermediary points often feel disjointed and kitschy at times. The first half of the book is littered with so many acronyms, there’s no way Il be able to remember them all and carry them through life. There are also some dated references and pushes for specific products/resources (which is neither good nor bad).
I’d recommend this to someone who is focusing on professional development and wants some inquisitive questions and activities to guide them in more in-depth sessions with a coach or mentor.
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January 15, 2020
I hesitate to put finished as I am finished reading the book and with a short dive into the activities but I am not finished as I will be revisiting the activities for a far deeper dive. My big takeaways are in the self-care, meditation and discipline areas. I felt myself developing a plan as I read and taking notes of great suggestions in the book. Mediation has always scared me. I was one of the “but I suck at it” people and I love that this was addressed, and suggestions given. I’m inspired and I buy into the material, so those two things make the book a win for me.
March 8, 2020
Inspiration and insights to master CHANGES. Guide to reduce stress, accomplish goals, and master adaptability. Achieve a higher level of success in business and life by applying these strategies. Karen Briscoe, author and podcast host 5 Minute Success
February 21, 2022
This book, was insightful in many ways and I found the activities at the end of the chapters helpful. I read this book no knowing what to expect, there were many good applications, however it was not an easy read.
January 4, 2024
DNF- Couldn't keep reading it. It got really slow for me and it was hard to keep reading through the chapters at a reasonable pace without having to stop and work on the activities.
Not a bad book, just not the right one for me.
Not a bad book, just not the right one for me.
May 18, 2019
Fabulous well thought out book! Really makes you examine your way of dealing with life and restructure the flaws. I highly recommend it.
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October 18, 2020Michael has done a terrific job in showing us the many faces of change and offers tons of tips about how to navigate change successfully. Buy this book!
September 4, 2021
I love the application and the digging deeper into actually identifying the process and reflection needed to create change.
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