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This week’s show is dedicated to change and specifically, Gleicher’s formula for change. This seems like a perfect topic to discuss at the beginning of 2017.  We are talking about making a change, and all of the reasons we have for not making one. So exciting!

Main Content

Introduction

• Every new year we are imbibed with new hope
• And with that hope often comes the desire for change
• The formula for change according to Gleicher
• (Vision X Discomfort) + First Steps> Resistance(Ambivalence)=Change
• We explain each section of the formula and what matters in each part of the equation. We also discuss a key component that is missing.

What

• So the first part, vision:
• You can’t truly have a no if you don’t have a “yes”
• We often say what we don’t want but we aren’t clear of what we do want
• Next, discomfort (aka suffering). The basic premise here is that we can come to our change through suffering or at least enough of it to “force” a change
• We can be pushed by discomfort or pulled by a vision
• And then FS or first steps. This is where it can really start to fall apart.
• Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit is a good one to review to support our continued steps
• And last but not least, Resistance or what Daphne likes to call ambivalence.
• We have reasons to change and reasons to stay the same.

What has worked well for you when you’ve wanted to make a change? What do you think of the formula and how it applies to making change stick in our lives?