Personal Power - Coping With Change

December 27, 2011

Interview with Pat Pearson, author of the book Stop Self-Sabotage: Get Out of Your Own Way to Earn More Money, Improve Your Relationships, and Find the Success You Deserve

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Mike Carruthers:
Do you ever sabotage your own success?

Pat Pearson:
The issue is that you set a goal, and then you shoot yourself in the foot and you make sure you don't achieve it and it all has to do, Mike, with deserve level.
 

December 23, 2011

Interview with Daniel Amen, M.D., author of the book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

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Mike Carruthers:
It appears that you actually have more control over your brain than you may have thought. For example…

Daniel Amen, M.D.:
How you think (moment-by-moment thoughts) have a huge impact on how your brain works.
 

May 23, 2011

Interview with Dr. Michael Pantalon, author of the book Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything--Fast

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Mike Carruthers:
If you want someone else to change a negative behavior…

Dr. Michael Pantalon:
You have to tell resistant people that they don’t absolutely have to change that it’s up to them. And the second thing is ask them questions about they might want to change.
 

April 12, 2011

Interview with Kerry Patterson, author of the book Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success

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Mike Carruthers:
Change is hard. But some people do it, how? Well it turns out it’s not just about willpower.

Kerry Patterson:
People believe that if they just have enough willpower they can overcome their eating habits. And they can start exercising and whatever it might be – and they’re mostly wrong, willpower is never enough.
 

March 4, 2011

Interview with Bev Smallwood, author of the book This Wasn't Supposed to Happen to Me: 10 Make-or-Break Choices When Life Steals Your Dreams and Rocks Your World

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Mike Carruthers:
If you live long enough bad things happen to you. It's called adversity. And the question is…

Bev Smallwood:
Whether that adversity you go through is going to take you under or whether you're really going to come out on the other side even stronger.
 

February 17, 2011

Interview with Dr. Marc Agronin, author of the book How We Age: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old

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Mike Carruthers:
The clock is ticking, we’re all getting older and many of us dread the idea. But there are a lot of misconceptions about aging.

Dr. Marc Agronin:
Aging just doesn’t suddenly happen one day, it’s our life-long process and there’s actually a lot that you can do earlier in life that can make a difference later in life. 
 

February 16, 2011

Interview with Judith Orloff, M.D., author of the book Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Are you one of those people who gets upset and angry if someone cuts you off on the highway or has 16 items in the 15 items or less aisle at the store?

Dr. Orloff:
People are going to cut you off all of the time, people are going to irritate you allof the time – you have a choice about how you respond.
 

 December 30, 2010

Interview with Alexander Levy, author of the book The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

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Mike Carruthers:
The way we as adults deal with the death of our parents is very different than it used to be.

Alexander Levy:
It's really only in the last fifty years that parental death was a person's first experience with death.
 

July 26, 2010

Interview with Donald Altman, author of the book The Mindfulness Code: Keys for Overcoming Stress, Anxiety, Fear, and Unhappiness

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Mike Carruthers:
In the last few moments have you been focused on the present or have you been worrying about what’s going to happen in the future?

Donald Altman:
If you’re too forward focused, and if that’s causing you anxiety and not allowing you to be present - then maybe you’re not really with the people that you’re with in that moment.
 

April 22, 2010

Interview with Daphne Rose Kingma, author of the book The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook

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Mike Carruthers:
Although that is seems that there is some light at the end of the tunnel this recession has taken it’s toll on so many of us.

Daphne Rose Kingma:
There are waves of crisis that have kind of swept through our world in a way that hasn’t been true maybe since the Great Depression.