Small Move, Big Change: Using Microresolutions to Transform Your Life Permanently
Arnold, corporate executive, finds from personal experience that “microresolution” is the first long-term success she achieved in realizing her resolutions—from losing weight to spending more time with her family, to going to the gym regularly, to being better organized. How she achieved these successes is presented as her system for readers of any age to make resolutions that they can sustain by developing new habits. Arnold’s seven rules of microresolutions include: don’t make resolutions you can’t keep, a microresolution is easy; make resolutions that are explicit and measurable actions; make resolutions in which the payoff is immediate, obvious, and sustainable; practice, practice, practice (a new habit takes time to become automatic); and make resolutions personal (what change in personal behavior meets your objectives?). Her chapter on sleep contains important insights for readers of all ages. Arnold concludes her thought-provoking road map to successfully transforming ourselves with new habits with this line, “Learning how to do just one thing differently punches your ticket for a voyage of continuous self-improvement.” --Mary Whaley