Top Highlights

• Once you choose to change, you accept responsibility for changing. This responsibility is the burden of commitment, sometimes called “self-liberation.” It is an acknowledgment that you are the only one who is able to respond, speak, and act for yourself.
• The most common error is to push someone to take action too soon. A precontemplator is not ready to take action, but may be ready to consider changing. Encourage this inclination.
• There is a certain level of awareness of both problem and solution that must precede action. Without it—and the accompanying commitment that takes place during the preparation stage—maintenance of change proves very difficult indeed.
• WELCOME OR NOT, change is unavoidable.
• Nothing remains static for an instant, from a planetary to a molecular level.