You're Addicted to You Why It's So Hard to Change -- and What You Can Do About It

by Blumenthal, Noah

• ISBN13: 9781576754276
• ISBN10: 1576754278
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-08
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

In "You're Addicted to You," Executive Coach Noah Blumenthal argues that there is no magical pill for changing your ingrained behaviors. There is an endless wealth of information on improving one's self, on how to become thinner, or smarter, or better in general. However, very few of these books actually work. Most of these books provide new behaviors and supply wonderful ideas, but they don't help us address our current addictions and ingrained behaviors. We can't simply come up with something better and turn off the old behavior. As such, much of the difficulty we have with change is not for lack of information on what to change; rather, it is because we don't know how to change. We know what we want to do, but we don't know how to adjust when we get into situations that bring out our bad habits. Without an effective plan for getting past our ingrained roadblocks, efforts to move toward improvements will continuously fall flat. This book is dedicated to helping us lay out that plan and break our self-addictions.

Author Biography

Noah Blumenthal is the founder and president of Leading Principles, Inc., a consulting company specializing in executive coaching, leadership, and team development. As a consultant and coach, he has worked with corporations, not-for-profit, and educational institutions including MetLife, Bank of America, Pfizer, Johnson & John- son, Accenture, Leo Burnett, First Energy Corp, New School University, and Fairfield University. Noah has coached hundreds of executives on making difficult changes and has trained new and seasoned
coaches, HR leaders, executives, and managers in the art of coaching. He studied psychology as an undergraduate student at Brandeis University and organizational psychology as a graduate student at Columbia University. Noah is a renowned speaker and workshop leader delivering talks on changing ingrained behaviors, building executive teams, and developing effective interpersonal relationships.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding Self-Addiction

Part I: Raising Awareness
Step 1 Identify Your Self-Addiction
Step 2; Realize the Consequences
Step 3: Make Powerful Commitments

Part II: Building Support
Step 4: Find Help
Step 5: Invite Support
Step 6: Maintain Effective Support

Part III: Taking Action
Step 7: Prepare Yourself
Step 8: Act in the Moment
Step 9: Assess Your Progress
Conclusion: Moving Onward
Recommended Reading Resources for Traditional Addictions
Index
About the Author