Publisher Description
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.
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“The genius of this useful
audiobook by a savvy New York tech executive is how her one-behavior-at-a-time
method stops the cycle of self-criticism we feel when we’re failing at major
resolutions we’ve committed to. The resolute tone of Soneela Nankani’s delivery
makes this advice sound important and worthy of consideration. But it’s her
sweetness that softens listeners and helps them stay connected to the power of
these simple ideas. With solid science and engaging personal stories, the author
shows how changing one habit (keep track of car keys) works better than broader
goals (stop being late for work). By succeeding with discrete changes, we put
them on automatic pilot, which stops energy-draining daily struggles and allows
us to enjoy little successes as we move toward the larger shifts we desire.”—
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