ON EARLIER: Advice Goddess Radio, Sunday, 1:30-2:30pm PT, 4:30-5:30pm ET: Psychologist Jeremy Deans -- How To Control Your Habits Instead Of Letting Your Habits Control You
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*Slightly different time again this week to accommodate guest from the UK.
Psychologist Jeremy Dean, founder of the popular website PsyBlog, is the author of Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick
We are convinced that we are the boss of us -- that we do the things we do because they make sense, because we've got goals, because we make smart choices. Often, that's far from the case. But, by understanding how habits are formed, why we develop them, and what our biases are, we can use habit-forming to our benefit and have some chance of stopping the habits holding us back.
Listen live at this link at 1-2pm Pacific, 4-5pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/01/20/jeremy-deans-form-good-habits-ditch-bad-make-change-stick
Don't miss last week's show with psychologist and researcher Dr. Richard Wiseman on how it is not positive thinking but positive action that is the fastest and most effective way to change. His book, just published in America, "The As If Principle."
This is not only a fascinating show, but an extremely valuable and practical one, with Wiseman laying out how this principle, well-supported by research, can easily be used to increase motivation, overcome depression, lose weight, stop smoking and even slow aging.
The research shows, for example, that you can measurably improve your mood by smiling and laughing, and that you can improve your relationship simply by acting loving. You can even cure phobias by practicing behaving, physically, as if you are not afraid -- not grimacing at a spider, for example.
Listen at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/01/13/dr-richard-wiseman-action-not-brooding-changes-yr-life
Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher.
So I take it neither of you would object to a yearly assessment of where you are.
But both you would probably object to the ten New Year's resolutions?
Another very good show.
Jim P. at January 20, 2013 2:43 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/01/20/earlier_today_a_1.html#comment-3569781">comment from Jim P.Thanks so much! Means a lot. I work so hard on these.
And assessing is great. It's trying to maintain self-control that is taxing. It's best to have just one thing you're working on -- like losing weight. Don't try to have six resolutions.
Amy Alkon
at January 20, 2013 3:51 PM
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