What’s It Going To Take For You To Change?
Hey Folks,
It’s time for you to make a change because, if you don’t the world is just going to change things for you without your having any say at all.
Lots of people have heard of the five stages of grief, but did you know there are five stages of change?
Psychologists Carlo DiClemente, PhD, and James O. Prochaska, PhD, identified five stages of change, in a study on smoking habits. The stages that they identified include precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
Guess what! The same stages are involved when you try to move your impact to the next level.
In precontemplation you aren’t even thinking about changing so let’s ignore that stage for now.
Once you get to the contemplation stage, you are most likely to respond to feedback and education as sources of information about growing your impact. Then in the preparation stage you commit yourself to changing and seeking a plan of action.
If you are in the action or maintenance stages you are actively changing your behaviors and environments.
That’s where the researchers found that social reinforcers were most important.
Then there are the relapsers who cycle back into earlier stages. Yes, it’s true we DON’T always move forward in a straight line climb to the top!
So where are you and what can you do to really change the results of your business, your actions and your life?
- If you are unaware. Wake up! Start reading, looking and learning.
- If you are contemplating making a change, continue your education and start moving into action. Meet people who are doing what you are doing and start with a first step.
- If you are taking action. Keep it going! Small steps that are COMPLETED make a huge difference at this stage!Also remember the importance of social reinforcers to your success. Everyone needs support. That’s why live events like jvAlert Live are so important to your success!
- If you are actively moving and taking massive action all the way to completion, this reinforcement becomes even more important, so that you don’t lose the momentum that you have built up. It’s easy to be distracted or discouraged, so use other people to keep you on track and moving forward at full speed. Other people can be INSPIRING!
- If you backslide, regroup and start where you are. Don’t get discouraged when you fall back a stage. It’s a natural part of the growth curves that we all face. Perspective can be a very useful thing, so look around you and discover who else has experienced what you are going through right now.
jvAlert Live is a great place to get information, balance, a yardstick for your results, reinforcement and encouragement.
It’s also a great way to meet people who share your dreams, hopes and ambitions who can support you for YEARS to come.
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All the best,
Ken McArthur
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Additional Materials on How People Change:
CDC AIDS Community Demonstration Projects Research Group (1999). Community-level HIV intervention in 5 cities: Final outcome data from the CDC AIDS Community Demonstration Projects. American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 89, pp. 336-345.
DiClemente, C. C. & Prochaska, J. O. (1982). Self-change and therapy change of smoking behavior: A comparison of processes of change in cessation and maintenance. Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 7, pp. 133-142.
DiClemente, C. C. (2003). Addiction and Change: How addictions develop and addicted people recover. New York: Guilford Press.
Marcus, B. H., Banspach, S. W., Lefebvre, R. C., Rossi, J. S., Carleton, R. A., & Abrams, D. B. (1992). Using the stages of change model to increase the adoption of physical activity among community participants. American Journal of Health Promotion, Vol. 6, pp. 424-429.
Nigg, C. R., Burbank, P. M., Padula, C., Dufresne, R., Rossi, J. S., Velicer, W. F., Laforge, R. G., & Prochaska, J. O. (1999). Stages of change across ten health risk behaviors for older adults. The Gerontologist, Vol. 39, pp. 473-482.
Prochaska, J. O. & DiClemente, C. C. (1983). Stages and processes of self-change of smoking: Toward an integrative model of change. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 51, pp. 390-395.
Prochaska, J. O., DiClemente, C. C., & Norcross, J. C. (1992). In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors. American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1102-1114.
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When I first mt you, our meeting was informal.
Then, I volunteered to help at JV Alert Live(!) here in Philly this past June.
It wasn’t until the Impact Bootcamp in August where I took a decisive stance to actually ‘do something’ instead of just talk about it.
Meeting and talking with one of your students, Walt Laurel, gave the the fire in my belly to take action.
So we launched our first, original site dedicated to the men & women of our Armed Forces.
It’s a blog-driven, charity-based site for them. Thanking them for their service and it serves as an outlet for them to thank the military. They get to express, in their own words, how the military strengthened their characters by making them better: leaders, managers, and organizers.
I am honored to have stories submitted to us by fellow marketers:
- Walt Laurel
- Jim Donovan
- Jason James
They helped build the site to what it is today. Thanks!
Without ever having met any of you, I would still just be talking about my dreams instead of materializing them.
Best,
-K
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This is an excellent, succinct post! These same things – taught in a week-long executive seminar years ago focused on Organizational Change – helped me navigate through rough waters and dark days following multiple deaths and disasters. So I’ve quoted you, Ken,on a new blog post about Stress Relief and these Five Stages of Change … and sent people here! Not to mention recommended your insightful book, “IMPACT!” Now I’m looking forward to JVAlert in Orlando – because you are so right. There’s no better way to get support to get on or stay on the upward path with momentum and IMPACT!
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