When someone asks you to change something about yourself, you can respond in a variety of different ways. Reactions can range from being angry and resistant to being interested and excited. Change is ...

Even if you’re just thinking about changing a behavior, you’ve taken a vital step, according to the Stages of Change model. Share on Pinterest Change can be hard — especially if you want to change a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juan Carlos Medina, CFP, focuses on holistic financial wellness. I think we can all agree that change is not easy. There can be so ...

The Stages of Change Management, also known as the Transtheoretical Model, is a framework originally developed to describe how people change their behavior. It has since been adapted for use in ...

Citation: Velasquez, M.M., Maurer, G.G., Crouch, C., and DiClemente, C.C. (2001). Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages-of-Change Therapy Manual. Guilford ...

Change isn’t easy, especially when it involves breaking habits. Anyone who has ever made a New Year’s resolution knows this ­all too well. What you may not know is that, according to research on ...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if change happened in an instant? Wouldn't it be great to wake up in the morning and think: “I want to start eating better.” And then we do. Or decide, “I am going to stop ...

Why do we ignore strategies that have been proven repeatedly to be successful in changing behavior for the better? Often, the answer is simply because change is complicated and takes time. But what if ...