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This Year I Will...: How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True

Description

Are you really ready to change? Take this quiz and find out.


Every New Year’s Day, my list of resolutions is:
Ambitious. I aim for everything from losing weight to saving more money for my retirement.
Realistic. I just try to bump my good behavior up a notch--be a better friend, give more money to charity---without giving myself any strict deadlines or goals.
Precise. I decide exactly how many men I will ask for a date, or how many new jobs I will apply for.

Whenever I decide to change something, it’s usually because:
My doctor has put the fear of God into me.
I read a magazine article about why making this change is important.
I start daydreaming about how great life will be after I make the change.

True or False: When you want to make a big change in your life, timing is crucial.

Failure is:
Impossible.
Inevitable.
Not in my vocabulary.

(The answers are on the inside back flap.)

Learn the secret to making changes that stick

Every so often people get inspired (again!) to lose weight, get organized, start saving, or stop worrying –but a few months later they give up, frustrated. It doesn’t have to be that way. In This Year I Wil . . .l, bestselling author M.J. Ryan offers breakthrough wisdom and coaching to help readers make this time the time that change becomes permanent.

Why do people find it so hard to change? The secret is that everyone has their own formula for making changes that stick, but most people don’t know what theirs is. They think there is one way to lose five pounds, and another way to stay on top of their e-mail, but they don’t realize that for all changes, there is one system that works best for each individual. This Year I Will . . . helps you lock on to your unique formula for planning, implementing, and seeing a life change through, so you can use it again and again to tackle anything else you’d like to do.

For anyone who has broken a New Year’s resolution, fallen off a diet, or given up on fulfilling a dream, the ingenious strategies, inspiring stories, and sheer motivational energy of This Year I Will . . . help you make a promise to yourself that you can actually keep.

Answers to the jacket quiz: c, c, false, b. Take the whole quiz and learn your score at M.J. Ryan’s Web site, www.mj-ryan.com.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-23
Summary: "This year..."

Haven't read it yet but looks like it will guide me through steps to get from A to B in all areas.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-14
Summary: "Worth revisiting"

I downloaded this book to my Kindle as 2010 approached and after digging the sample but I never read past the first section, Preparing to Change, until six months had passed. I just wasn't ready but now I've scheduled quarterly re-reading because the strategies Ryan provides work well and quickly. This Year I Will... isn't a system book so there are no rules to follow and perfection is not required. What a relief.

Preparing to Change gets you ready for the how-to of the book, Getting Into Action, and the advice on how to stay on track in the last section, Keeping Going. Each sub-section is blessedly short but has the perfect mix of science and anecdote to keep reading light and easy.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-23
Summary: "Very interesting read."

This Year I Will...is a book that tells you how to chanage habits, make resoultuions, etc. (See cover.) What I got out of it was that a person must set their minds to doing something and then they will acheive sucess. Not groundbreking, I know, but the author really lays it out for the readers of this book on how to accomplish things. I highly recommend this one, along with Gretchen Rubins's The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-04-27
Summary: "Low Quality Paper and Print"

It's hard to read because the pages are of a low quality off-white paper, and the print is small.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-02-05
Summary: "Fast service"

I received this book quickly and it is in perfect condition. I would cetainly order from this seller again.