I’ve found maintaining change in the face of internal obstacles is far easier than initiating it. For many years, I’ve successfully engineered change in my own life using the strategies in this book—temptation bundling to make exercise fun so I stay fit, surrounding myself with friends and colleagues who believe in me and who are role models to boost my confidence and stretch my ambition, harnessing fresh starts to tackle new challenges (such as writing this book, which I began on the very day I became a homeowner), and making cue-based plans to avoid flaking out.
