Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently - Hardcover

Arnold, Caroline L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670015342 ISBN 13: 9780670015344

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2014

Synopsis

A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we're always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according to longtime Wall Street technology strategist Caroline Arnold. "Small Move, Big Change "is Arnold's guide to turning broad personal goals into meaningful and discrete behavioral changes that lead to permanent improvement. A microresolution is easily kept and designed to nail a self-improvement target exactly and deliver benefits immediately. While the traditional resolution promises rewards on a distant "someday," a microresolution rewards us today by instantly altering our routines and, ultimately, ourselves. A wife, mother, and business innovator, Arnold uses her own successes and failures as case studies. Contrasting her career success with her personal resolution failures, Arnold recounts how by analyzing her own behavior she was able to reengineer her resolutions so that they were guaranteed to succeed every time, from losing weight to improving key relationships. Providing scores of engaging examples from the wide circle of colleagues and friends who practice her microresolution method, Arnold also shows how her system is supported by new willpower and habit science.

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Review:

"Small Move, Big Change is a rare self-improvement book that actually works. With the right mix of science and practical examples, Caroline Arnold offers powerful advice for motivating ourselves to save more, eat less, get organized, boost our willpower, and even keep our New Year's resolutions. It's the most useful guide to getting things done since Getting Things Done."
--Adam Grant, Wharton professor and bestselling author of Give and Take

"Rich...Wisdom from time immemorial--take it a day at a time and moderation in all things--reworked by Arnold to morph broad goals into manageable, measurable microresolutions."--Kirkus

"The only thing this book did for me was to get me to floss regularly, which led to less red wine, which led to snapping at my kids less, which led to them doing the dishes more. Who knew that flossing could change your life?
--Dr. Wendy Walsh, CNN's Human Behavior Expert

"Didn't expect to -- but I love this book! From page one, Small Move, Big Change is filled with wisdom, insight, and whip-smart "micro" suggestions you can actually implement to change your life. Caroline Arnold manages to be funny, down to earth, and hard-hitting all at the same time. This is a must-read."
- Amy Chua, Yale Law professor and author of Battle of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups

From the Back Cover:

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'Filled with wisdom, insight, and whip-smart "micro" suggestions you can actually implement to change your life. A must-read' AMY CHUA, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Small but smart: a Wall Street guru's secrets to making change that sticks

Every January, we start the new year determined to achieve our goals: to lose weight, save money or get a promotion. But science - and real life - shows that this 'big push' strategy is doomed to fail, with our limited willpower struggling against entrenched routines and autopilot behaviours.

Wall Street technology guru Caroline Arnold understands the power of small but precise targets in getting us to where we want to be. In this empowering book, she introduces microresolutions: simple and deceptively effective, they reward us with instant results that have huge, lasting effects.

Full of real-world examples, and backed up with new scientific discoveries, this practical guide will help you spot the small moves that will bring the biggest change to your life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0670015342
• ISBN 13: 9780670015344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238