The Gifts Of Change Author Offers Tips For Change-Challenged People

Released on = January 2, 2005, 4:05 am

Press Release Author = Nancy Christie

Industry = Consumer Services

Press Release Summary = Afraid of change? Self-help author has strategies and tools to get you out of your rut and moving toward your goals.

Press Release Body = YOUNGSTOWN, OH, January 2, 2005—While many people look at the beginning of the New Year as a chance to “get it right,” others spend January with their heads figuratively under the covers, hoping that the urge to change will vanish by months end. With any luck at all, they reason, they can make it through 31 days without doing one thing different, thereby preserving their safe (if stultifying) status quo. But what they gain in security, they lose in opportunity, says Nancy Christie, author of The Gifts of Change (Beyond Words Publishing, 2004). “Avoiding change doesn’t keep you safe,” she explains. “It actually makes you weak. Change is going to come, whether you want it or not. The trick is to be prepared by regularly exercising your ‘change muscle’.” Christie suggests that change-phobics start small, and to help, she provides new “Make a Change” suggestions each month on her Gifts of Change website (www.giftsofchange.com). January’s suggestions include a novel approach to uncovering your dreams: drafting your own obituary. “I first used this exercise in a creative writing class I was teaching and it was a big hit,” laughs Christie. “Students were told to write their own obit from the standpoint of being at least 100 years old and living the life they always dreamed of—even if it was totally unrelated to their ‘real’ life. Giving them permission to move beyond the bounds of reality in their imagination encourages them explore
possibilities in reality.” Christie has also created a web site-based Gifts of Change workbook. The individual worksheets include a “Change Challenge” to encourage people to commit to making one change in a 30-day period. “What I want people to understand is that creating change in our lives is an empowering act,” Christie emphasizes. “When we explore new options or engage in new experiences, we are opening the door to possibilities we didn’t even know existed. That’s the true gift of change.” For more information about Nancy Christie and The Gifts of Change, visit her web site, www.giftsofchange.com or contact her via e-mail at info@giftsofchange.com or by phone at 330-793-3675.
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Contact Details = PO Box 4505, Austintown, OH 44515
330-793-3675
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