PART FOUR

Personal change

We are limited in the choices that we can make in life by a need to conform to society’s expectations and professional codes of behaviour. Yet we often react to situations based on a history of reacting the same way rather than stopping, making a choice and then acting.

Choice, like a dog, needs to be exercised regularly or we slip back into reactive, automatic behaviour. Personal change is not easy, but it is hugely rewarding. The vast number of new self-help books published every year suggests that many of us are striving to improve ourselves.

In this part, you’ll find some ways of improving your thinking, discovering more about who you really are and want to be, and becoming more productive through better organisation ...

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