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CHANGE

Take the Lead Before Change Takes Over

One day, I decided to leave everything behind and travel the world for nine months.

  • In this book, I will explain how I applied the principles of business change management to my personal transformation.

  • We’ll explore why we often want to change, yet stay stuck.

  • I’ll teach you how to reduce uncertainty and embrace fear rationally.

  • You’ll learn to define your goals and activities, facilitate the first steps, and manage calculated risks.

  • I’ll give you tools to overcome the obstacles along the way and anchor the change through habits.

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CONTENTS

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  • Before we start

    I quit my job to backpack around the world

    Managing change is reducing the fear of the unknown

    The psychology of change in just two pages

  • The first formula: why do you want to change?

    You want to change because the present sucks

    You want to change because the future is sexier

    You want to change, but the first step is the hardest

    The three factors are connected

    …and change is harder if one of them fails

    How I used this formula to quit my job and travel around the world

  • Second formula: the journey of change

    Change and what you care about are two different things

    Divide and conquer

    Take a selfie to know what you really care about

    Where is your center of gravity?

    What do you want to leave behind?

    Check out my selfie before my round-the- world trip

    Where do you want to go?

    Why I decided to travel around the world

  • A quick recap

    Be specific articulating the problem, and the solution will manifest itself

    How I made my round-the-world tour dream specific

    Talk about it, and listen to yourself

  • What’s on the other side of fear?

    Make small bets to build confidence

    Identify the minimal viable effort

    This is how I planned my round-the-world trip

    Find the motivation to take the first step

  • Use habits as glue

    Habits create freedom

    How habits work

    How to create good habits and break harmful habits

    “Just do it”

    Activate your autopilot by simplifying the first steps

    Reward yourself now

    What if the habit breaks along the way?

    Cultivate the power of incremental change

    Build a good “architecture” of decisions and habits

  • How did the trip end?

    A final thought: find joy in the process, not in the result

    Summary

    Other ideas about change you can find in my other books

    References

    All the books in this series