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Where did it all begin?

Many moons ago...
A clever man called Professor Ben Fletcher, was doing research on stress and its effects on a person’s health. It soon became clear to him that even if a person lived in an ideal world, they would still experience stress. He discovered that stress came from INSIDE the person and NOT from the outside world! Don’t agree?

Well, after 25 years of research, it was proven that people can overcome stress, anxiety, mild depression and many other problems that make them unhappy. How? Simply by changing the way they see and feel the world around them. Much easier and simpler than trying to change the world in which you live and work, don’t you think?

To help people to cope with life and get along with others, the good professor developed a very powerful framework to understand why people think and behave in the ways they do. He realized that it was impossible to get people to alter the way that they think about the world because humans simply do not have enough willpower to make permanent positive changes to their lives.

 

 

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By getting a person to change what they actually do first, people can then change their way of thinking. This approach to make positive changes to your life is what the Doing Something Different programme is all about. Changing a little bit at a time, gives people a small nudge and sets them thinking along a different track.

It alters the way that you view yourself, and most importantly, it shows you the degree to which you are under the control of your own habits!

Professor Fletcher made the discovery of the century…….

If people changed their everyday behaviour (habits) and became more flexible and adaptable to life in general, then slowly but surely, they also changed the way they were thinking about all sorts of things! Best of all— the person who changed his/her behaviour (habits) to become more flexible then:

Became More Positive about life

Became Less Stressed

Became Less Depressed

Became in Control of their Weight

Felt Healthier and Happier overall

The moral of the story is thus that we are creatures of habits, which rule anything and everything about us. It is impossible to change your live for the better, by using willpower only. The Doing Something Different programme does not require willpower to bring on change in behaviour…..By simply changing your habitweb and breaking old habit-chains, you can bring on very positive changes to your own life!

By doing the DSD-programme, you can become more successful—and indeed happier—in all that you do!

 

But how will positive change then happen for ordinary people who does not possess
super-human willpower?

"With me a change of trouble is as good as a holiday."

David Lloyd George

Different is Possible!image of a dolphin and a cow

 

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