Are You Ready For A Change?

"If it's time for a change in your life and analyzing things to death has left you feeling defeated and hopeless, What's Right With You is a must read. It will debunk conventional myths about change, quickly restore your confidence and show you how to harness your hidden personal strengths to accomplish your life's goals."
Michele Weiner-Davis, author of Divorce Busting and The Sex-Starved Marriage

Here is what the research says and the book covers:

1. Change does not come about from the special powers of any particular physician or therapist or therapeutic method; there are no gurus or miracle cures.

2. Change happens when you use your inherent strengths and resources and are supported by relationships that take your innate goodness as a given.

3. Change happens when you create a plan that is tailored to your ideas and therefore inspires the hope necessary for action.

Applying this research, the map for the first steps of your journey is charted in Chapter Two. It demonstrates not only how to shed self-doubt but also how to enlist your heroic self-what's right with you-to support your efforts for meaningful change. Chapter Three discusses the importance of having someone in your corner to encourage you and offers guidelines about how to recruit a "change partner" as a companion in your travels to transformation. Addressing an oft ignored but critical factor, Chapter Four helps you learn your own view of how change happens, a crucial point in selecting the plan that will inspire hope and benefit you the most. Chapters Five and Six present two radically different problem solving strategies that apply your strengths and abilities to create solutions to life challenges. Although providing numerous suggestions, more importantly, these chapters give you the inside scoop on how to solve problems in the same way that therapists are taught. So rather than just giving you the bread, Chapters Five and Six demonstrate how to cultivate the soil and grow the wheat. Chapter Seven brings it all together and shows you how to track your progress so that you know earlier rather than later whether your change plan is working-and how to use that information to adjust your methods for the best possible chance of success. It also describes how to continue to reap the benefits of the gains you have made as well as numerous options about what to do if your plan isn't working. Each chapter ends with a short story that illustrates its main points and an exercise/summary of specific steps that will help you integrate the material.