Self Improvement AdviceSelf improvement ideas for managing personal change
In one sense, the majority of visitors to this site who are looking for information, resources and advice on organisational change management are seeking self improvement advice - and all of this can be accessed via any of the following links: Key Access Points to all Site Resources However, if you are looking for self improvement advice for managing personal change, you will find extensive resources on this page that will:
The links below are grouped together in broad categories. Within these pages, where relevant, you will find links to other pages on this site, and also good quality third party resources. As indicated above, there are two aspects to managing personal change, firstly becoming informed and secondly taking action. In addition to extensive informational resources, you will find links below to excellent transformational resources - all of which I have used (or still use) myself. Many of these resources are free, and some are good-value paid-for products and services.
Personal Change
Most of us make the mistake of assuming that self improvement advice and personal change is all skills based and can be taught. Whilst it is true that we can become informed about it and learn, generally we won't change. We can't change because of our unconscious inner resistance - the hidden beliefs and self talk that cause us to not keep New Year resolutions, to fail with diets, to not stop smoking etc. Managing personal change starts with a clear understanding of what our unconscious resistance really is. Guy Finley: Life of Learning Foundation Higher Awareness: Personal Development Programmes William Bridges: Navigating The Transitions of Change Elizabeth Kubler-Ross: Mapping the Impacts of Change Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Meditation Programme: No More Boredom + No More Years Of Training! Relaxation + Meditation Music + Guided Meditations
Personality types and thinking styles
These asssessment tools are useful in helping us to understand:
Katherine Benziger - Thinking Styles Assessment Enneagram of Personality Types Howard Gardner: Multiple Intelligence George Kelly: Personal Construct Psychology Conscious Competence - Stages Of Learning Emotional Intelligence - Self awareness in the emotional dimension
Personal motivation
If we decide to do something, why don't we just do it? If we can figure out what it is that's stopping us and deal directly with that then we won't need self motivation tips... Another useful perspective is to differentiate between the two levels of self motivation: the day to day, self-motivation that we need to achieve routine activities; and, secondly what I call the "big picture level motivation" that we need to get us through situations of significant imposed change - situations that have large and perhaps dramatic impacts on our life. My own experience has shown that simply focusing on what I call "task level" motivation is, in effect, like putting a sticking on a broken leg, whereas if we deal with the "big picture level" motivation we automatically address the day-to-day task level motivation.
Psychology of motivation
Enough focused action will in turn lead eventually to the successful achievement of a goal. Understanding the psychology, motivation and drivers that underlie our differing types of motivation is foundational to good self improvement advice, and an essential aspect of managing personal change. Define Motivation - Understanding the inner drivers Motivation Theories - Getting people to take action Maslow's hierarchy of needs - A paradigm shift ERG Theory - Practical application to leading change Herzberg Motivation Theory - Satisfied and motivated Acquired Needs Theory - Goal seeking achievers Process theories of motivation - Personal needs drive behaviour Employee motivation techniques - How to achieve peak performance Inspirational motivation - How to inspire your people in tough times
Personal leadership development
We automatically read the energy of everyone we meet whether we realize this or not. We know instantly if we like someone or not. We get a sense if someone is lying to us. We know if our environment feels unsafe - we don't know how we know, we just do. This is our intuitive energy at work. Energy is primal. It is instinctive. In the present environment where change is now increasingly "business as usual", leaders who understand and can work with the energy of change are in high demand. Business Leadership Coaching With Intuitive Energy Align-Lead-Inspire: A Leadership Development Plan via Online Training
Further Resources
"Knowing others is intelligence; Act without doing Rushing into action, you fail. Therefore the Master takes action [Tao Te Ching] Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now Michael Brown - "The Presence Process" Robert Scheinfeld - Busting Loose And finally you could always sign up for my free email series on "Managing Personal Change" below - in which I develop the themes touched on above, in far more depth.
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We are focusing here on self improvement advice in the overall context of the theme of this site which is change management. In this section of the site we are specifically considering self improvement ideas for managing personal change.
There are many different personality types and thinkings styles and several mainstream and well regarded models and assessment tools and these are a good basis for sound self improvement advice.
A good starting point for self improvement advice is to consider why it is that we feel the need for self motivation tips? 
Motivation is the activation of goal-oriented behaviour
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