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September 15, 2004
Importance Of Making Small Changes
Interview
with Larry Terkel author of the book,
Small Change
Mike
Carruthers:
When you think about it making small changes may be the
best way to improve yourself.
Larry
Terkel:
Like saving small change in a jar everyday adds up
small changes in your life add up. Making small changes one
at a time adds up to a better you physically, emotionally and
spiritually.
Larry Terkel
co-author of the book
Small Change…
Take
a diet for example: some people try and change their diet all
at once. We say take one meal, take lunch make one change in
that meal and if that's a change that you can sustain you have
changed thousands of meals over your lifetime. If you would
replace your soda fountain drink with water you would save gallons
of carbonated sugar you would drink gallons of water, save up
to $500 if you were eating out and fifty thousand calories a
year.
And that's
just one small change that anyone can make.
If you
make that change and then the next month make another small
change while sustaining the first one it's like compound interest.
You are getting better and better all of the time.
And there
are so many very small changes you can make.
Just
smiling, smiles connect to a part of the brain that brings well-being
and satisfaction and the more you start to use those muscles
the more natural it becomes and the more it begins to change
everything.
Tomorrow,
more small and effective changes. I'm Mike Carruthers and that's
Something You Should Know.
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