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3 Guidelines that Help Avoid Resistance to Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

People don’t resist change. What people resist is having change imposed on them. Here are three guidelines that invite people to participate in the change process and minimize resistance to change. The best way to avoid resistance to change is to involve people in planning and implementing the change.

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How to Change Someone Who Doesn’t Want to Change

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Personal Effectiveness Overcoming Resistance to Change' The post How to Change Someone Who Doesn’t Want to Change appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Create an Unbalancing Force If You Want To Move an Elephant

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

The answer lies in Newton’s First Law: An object continues to do whatever it happens to be doing and resists change unless an unbalancing force is exerted upon it. An Unbalancing Force is needed to overcome resistance to change. Why doesn’t he quit? The amount of Chris’s unhappiness is not great enough to unbalance him.

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Tune In and Turn Off

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Even if you understand this, it can be hard to resist the pressure unless you make intentional decisions to create “off time.”. Just because technology makes it possible to be always available, doesn’t mean you should be. There’s tremendous pressure on us to be “always on.” Here are 7 habits that can help. Stop multi-tasking.

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What If You Changed and No One Noticed?

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Resist resisting. It can feel like an “either/or” situation – either resist or revert. Resisting wears you out and is not sustainable over the long-term. As the forces of physics push back on us, we can come to believe that change wasn’t possible and slip back into our old patterns.

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A Big Goal Is Not The Same As a Vision

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It is powerful to create a picture of what you want (rather than struggling with what you want to resist). If you have a goal to lose weight, it is very helpful to create a mental image of yourself looking thin. You can more easily sustain your energy and commitment.

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