Posts tagged with 'goals'
How to live well: 10th meeting - review & next steps
17th November 2018
"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?'. They will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, …
How to live well: 3rd meeting - willpower, wooping, diet & dependencies
19th September 2018
"Be regular & orderly in your life so that you may be violent & original in your work." Gustave Flaubert "Fall down seven times. get up eight." Japanese proverb These are notes on the third evening of the ten-session "How to live well - a shared exploration" training. Notes on …
How to live well: 2nd meeting - mindset, motivation, positive emotions, exercise & sleep
8th September 2018
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford "Knowledge is only rumour, until it is in the muscle." New Guinea proverb These are notes on the second evening of the ten-session "How to live well - a shared exploration" training. Comments on the first …
How to live well: 1st meeting - values, self-determination theory, roles & goals
4th September 2018
"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?'. They will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of …
Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some research-based suggestions (4th post): compassion & implementation intentions
17th October 2017
This is the fourth & last post in the sequence that starts with "Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some research-based suggestions (1st post): mindfulness & naming" and then goes on to "Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation ... (2nd post): touch & affectionate releasing" & "Upgrading the 'breathing space' meditation, some …
Warwick BABCP conference: 1st morning - trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research (2nd post)
22nd July 2015
Yesterday I blogged about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Anger dysregulation". Today was the first full day of the conference proper. Breakfast illustrated the kind of helpful, fun conversation that can emerge at this kind of event. I talked to Fiona McFarlene & Tara Murphy who were going on …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (2nd post)
15th July 2015
I recently wrote the blog post "New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)" where I introduced two new research articles - Hudson and Fraley's "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change personality traits?" and Elliott et al's "Psychometrics …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)
14th July 2015
Hudson and Fraley's great new article "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?" still just has "online first" status at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology so it hasn't even got to "hot off the press" yet. It describes such interesting findings. The abstract …
How to WOOP
14th May 2015
WOOP is an acronym for Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan. This sequence is based on the very impressive body of research on how to boost motivation, goal setting & goal achievement assembled over many years by professors Gabrielle Oettingen & Peter Gollwitzer. I have written extensively about their work in previous blog posts (and …
WOOPing along: an excellent way of helping us achieve our goals
9th May 2015
Gabrielle Oettingen has recently published her new book "Rethinking positive thinking: inside the new science of motivation". It's already available in hardback & Kindle, and is due out in paperback later this year. WOOP is an acronym for Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan and is a facelift for the less catchily named (but highly …