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The Gifts Of Change Author Offers Tips For Change-Challenged PeopleReleased on = January 2, 2005, 4:05 am Press Release Author = Nancy Christie Industry = Consumer Services Press Release Summary = Afraid of change? Self-help author has strategies and tools to get you out of your rut and moving toward your goals. Press Release
Body = YOUNGSTOWN, OH, January 2, 2005—While many people look
at the beginning of the New Year as a chance to “get it right,”
others spend January with their heads figuratively under the covers,
hoping that the urge to change will vanish by months end. With any
luck at all, they reason, they can make it through 31 days without
doing one thing different, thereby preserving their safe (if stultifying)
status quo. But what they gain in security, they lose in opportunity,
says Nancy Christie, author of The Gifts of Change (Beyond Words
Publishing, 2004). “Avoiding change doesn’t keep you
safe,” she explains. “It actually makes you weak. Change
is going to come, whether you want it or not. The trick is to be
prepared by regularly exercising your ‘change muscle’.”
Christie suggests that change-phobics start small, and to help,
she provides new “Make a Change” suggestions each month
on her Gifts of Change website (www.giftsofchange.com). January’s
suggestions include a novel approach to uncovering your dreams:
drafting your own obituary. “I first used this exercise in
a creative writing class I was teaching and it was a big hit,”
laughs Christie. “Students were told to write their own obit
from the standpoint of being at least 100 years old and living the
life they always dreamed of—even if it was totally unrelated
to their ‘real’ life. Giving them permission to move
beyond the bounds of reality in their imagination encourages them
explore Web Site = http://www.giftsofchange.com Contact Details
= PO Box 4505, Austintown, OH 44515
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