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We all have bad habits. We all want to change something about ourselves—a nicotine addiction, a lack of physical exercise, a relentless sweet tooth (like mine!), an ineffective way or relating to our children or significant others in times of stress, and on and on.
Because we’ve all dealt with something that’s held us back from actualizing our best selves at some point in our lives, we know that change isn’t like turning on or off a light switch. You don’t go to bed a pack-a-day smoker and wake up a non-smoker because you saw one anti-smoking ad. You don’t go years without exercising to being a “gym rat” because your spouse successfully nagged you into a membership. You don’t fundamentally change the way you interact with the children you teach based on a score from a classroom observation. And, like I proved recently, you just can’t go from a raging sugar addiction to completely cutting it out of your diet on a whim—especially not the week before Halloween. (Seriously, what was I thinking?)
Change, like most things in life, is a process. It's not a straight line of progress, however. At any given moment we can find ourselves at a different stage in our readiness to change.
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