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Awareness: The Cornerstone of Changing Our Behavior

One of the most essential, crucial ingredients to happiness is awareness. Awareness is an incredibly powerful tool to help us change. Read More

Awareness is essential even for small, no-brainer changes

Awareness is not only crucial for making big changes. It's crucial for making small changes as well.

A clinical psychologist, author ("Following Through") and inventor (the MotivAider) who specializes in helping people follow through on making desired changes in their own behavior and habits, I'm convinced that ATTENTION is an essential but often overlooked ingredient in the recipe for successful change. Unless we can keep our attention focused on what we're automatically doing and what we intend to do instead, change is just not going to happen.

Unfortunately, keeping your attention focused on the change you want to make is easier said than done, which is why I've spent years developing and perfecting a simple electronic device that automatically keeps its user's attention focused on making virtually any chosen change.

Behaviorism

I believe that a form of behaviorism plays an effect in ones awareness. Ones actions and behavior can affect the out come on many situations. The same goes for if you speak before you think. For example, if your boss is breathing down your neck allay long, and by the end of the day you had enough, and snap. You tell your boss things that you would normally not say. This little outburst then causes you to lose your job. This situation has a negative out come. If you learn from your mistake, the next time you have this ha
Pen, things could end differently.

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Robert Puff, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over 20 years.

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