Next 21 Day Challenge Starting Oct. 1

by Peggy Mitchell Norwood

The first 21 Day Challenge was a HUGE success! We'll be starting the next one on October 1. To join in, pick one small thing to change and do it for 21 days. Make sure it's small enough and do-able enough that you can do it successfully for 21 days. Do that one small thing and make no other changes. Psychologists say it takes 21 days to form a new habit or break an old one. I know you'll be pleased with your results. Check in here on October 1 and let me know what you will be working on.

Persevere!

Dr. Peg

Learn more at www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com

What is your CQ (Change Quotient)?

by Peggy Mitchell Norwood, Ph.D.

Most people want to have change in their lives, but they are not willing to MAKE changes. They want something different, but fail to DO something different. Find out your CQ - Change Quotient - and learn more about your motivation to change. You can visit my webpage at www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com and take the CQ Test that I developed. You'll receive a customized report with detailed feedback within 24 hours.

Your CQ measures your openness to change and your willingness to change. Your openness to change is the degree to which you want to have change in your life or experience your life differently. Willingness to change is the degree to which you will do whatever is required to experience that change. When both your openness and willingness to change are equally high, you have a high CQ, which reflects your strong desire for change and your determination to achieve it. You set goals and usually achieve them. When either openness or willingness is low, your CQ is low and you are unlikely to experience lasting change in your life.

I don't know that I can say that one is more significant than the other. Both openness and willingness are critical to doing something different. They ideally should be in balance, where desire is matched with equal initiative. The good news is that you CAN enhance your CQ by understanding and applying the principles that I share in my book, Do Something Different...For a Change.

To get started in the process of increasing your CQ and experiencing the change you want in your life, take the CQ test on the home page of my website, www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com. Click on the box on the top right hand corner of the page to take the test. After you receive your CQ Test Report, carefully review and honestly evaluate the results. Feel free to email me or post your comments on this blog if you have any questions.

Check back here for my next blog on the common barriers that we face that get in the way of experiencing lasting change in our lives.

Persevere!

Dr. Peg

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To learn more about how to experience lasting change, visit my website at www.DoSomethingDifferentNow.com