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- What's the secret to making lasting changes in your life without feeling overwhelmed?
- Have you ever wondered why your New Year's resolutions never seem to stick?
- What if you could turn small, almost imperceptible changes into a roadmap for achieving your biggest goals?
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Key Takeaways from Small Move, Big Change
- Understand why broad, idealistic resolutions inevitably fail because they lack concrete action steps and leave too much room for excuses.
- Discover how your brain's 'autopilot' mode sustains bad habits, and why relying on your easily exhausted willpower will ultimately lead to relapse.
- Learn how to achieve big life goals by using 'microresolutions'—precise, highly specific behavioral tweaks that eliminate loopholes and guarantee success.
- Master the art of targeting exact daily actions, such as skipping a cookie at a specific meeting, to replace unmeasurable goals with instant gratification.
- Find out why you must limit yourself to implementing just one or two microresolutions at a time to successfully rewire your autopilot for long-lasting change.
Learning Tools
Reinforce what you learned from Small Move, Big Change
Mind Map
Small Move, Big Change
Why Traditional Resolutions Fail
Too Broad and Vague
Wannabe Resolutions
Willpower Drain
The Power of Autopilot
Energy Conservation
Sustains Bad Habits
Behavioral Shift
The Microresolution Strategy
Bite-Sized Actions
Behavior Over Outcome
Absurdly Easy
Avoid Overload
Instant Gratification
Framing and Triggers
Positive Framing
Zero-Tolerance Framing
Recognizable Cues
Piggybacking
Real-World Applications
Improving Sleep
Boosting Fitness
Building Momentum
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 8
According to the text, why do people typically fail to keep their New Year's resolutions?
Small Move, Big Change — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Keeping resolutions is difficult because they’re usually too vague, overly broad, or idealistic in scope overall.
Chapter 3: When your mind runs on autopilot, you become vulnerable to bad habits.
Chapter 4: You can spark major life change by crafting small behavior shifts called microresolutions.
Chapter 5: Though small, microresolutions do produce fundamental and long-lasting changes indeed.
Chapter 6: Frame microresolutions in a manner that helps ensure you will keep them consistently.
Chapter 7: Microresolutions are most effective when they’re anchored to recognizable cues.
Chapter 8: Microresolutions can help you change key health habits, including improving your sleep each night.
Chapter 9: Shed your sedentary lifestyle by using microresolutions to boost your fitness levels.
Small Move, Big Change Summary & Overview
In Small Move, Big Change, you’ll learn why it is we so often fail to follow through with the changes in our lives that we so desperately want to make. Author Caroline Arnold explains that we fall short because we’re not crafting our resolutions in a way that is actually achievable. Instead, we should focus on “microresolutions” – small, easy-to-keep commitments that add up to big change.
Who Should Listen to Small Move, Big Change?
- Anyone who has failed to follow through on a New Year’s resolution
- Anyone wanting to reach personal and professional goals that seem out of reach
- Anyone who is looking for a sustainable path to self-improvement
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