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    This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes
    This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes
    This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes
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    This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes

    By Martin Meadows

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    Do You Want to Make a Permanent Change? This Time Can Finally Be Different!

    Making a permanent change often feels outright impossible. Making one attempt after another, you fail and continue to fail, and it seems there’s no way to make the change stick for longer than a couple of weeks.

    Perhaps… except some people somehow manage to stick to their resolutions in the long term and their lives do get better — permanently.

    What makes the difference between those superheroes and “mere mortals”? More importantly, can the “mortals” acquire those superpowers, or should they accept that they’ll never be able to permanently change their lives?

    Written by bestselling author, Martin Meadows, This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes goes through a 4-step process called STAR that will take you on a journey, from the moment you introduce a new change, all the way to how to live your life after you’ve successfully implemented it.

    Designed to be a short read packed with practical advice, you can finish the entire book in just one or two sittings and quickly begin to implement it in your own life.

    Here are just some of the things you’ll learn from the book:

    - One motivator you might not have thought about that can mean the difference between failure and success. Don’t proceed any further until you learn about it…

    - What motivational links are and why they’re crucial if you want to introduce permanent changes. This unique concept alone can be enough to successfully implement a change in the long term.

    - How to gain traction when implementing new changes. Discover CCC, a 2-step process designed to help you undergo an identity shift that leads to a permanent change.

    - 5 tools to help you persevere when you’re struggling to stick to your new resolution. That’s when most people give up. Avoid their fate by applying the strategies discussed in this chapter.

    - 3 core principles to live your success. It’s not only about reaching success; it’s also about maintaining it, which is often trickier than achieving it. Learn how to ensure permanent, long-term success.

    If you’re tired of consistently unsuccessful attempts and itch for a permanent positive change in your life, buy this book now and learn how to finally make this time different!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeadows Publishing
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781386495635
    This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes

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      This Time Will Be Different - Martin Meadows

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      Prologue

      This time will be different! Sean proclaimed. He was ready to finally start eating more healthily. He had failed several times before, but this time will be different; he knows it will!

      His first day goes well. He doesn’t feel the temptation to eat a cheeseburger when he passes by his favorite fast food joint. It feels good to drink green tea in place of a diet coke. And his salad tastes like heaven, giving him a foretaste of how bright his future will be.

      When he wakes up the next day, a craving for pizza hits him like a brick dropped from a tenth-floor window. But no, he won’t eat it. There’s no place for pizza in his new diet. As he prepares his breakfast of oatmeal with fruits, he wonders why he had given up so many times before. It’s easy.

      The next few days go without a hitch. Sean doesn’t make any exceptions in his nutrition plan and sticks to healthy choices.

      And then, on a rainy Monday afternoon, somebody dings his car door at the parking lot. Sean is livid. How could the driver be so reckless? How will he get through the rest of the month now that he needs to pay for the repair? And why is it so cold and gloomy? Couldn’t at least the weather be more pleasant? Before he even realizes it, Sean finds himself in his favorite fast food joint, gorging on his favorite cheeseburger (with double fries) and washing it all down with a can (make it two) of diet coke.

      Heading back home, Sean is disgusted with himself. How could he have been so rash in his decision to cheat? Was it really worth it to stuff his belly with so much junk food that he had to loosen his belt? He promises himself he won’t eat there again. It was just a little slip-up because of that stupid driver. He will soon be back on track. After all, this time is different. He’s not going to repeat his past mistakes.

      The next day, his boss yells at him for no apparent reason.

      Sean desperately fights against the idea of comforting himself with food. He had made a promise to himself to not do that. However, when Sally from accounting suggests that they go grab a pizza for lunch, he finds himself unable to refuse. It’s just this one time. Also, Sally doesn’t invite him to lunch often. It might be his chance to invite her on a real date.

      1500 calories later, with his appetite for unhealthy food reawakened, Sean stops by a supermarket on his way back home. An hour later, he sits in front of the television with a humongous bag of potato chips, which he finishes off before he goes to bed.

      When he wakes up the next day, he realizes that he forgot to buy some vegetables and fruits, and two spoons of oatmeal aren’t going to cut it for a solid breakfast. From the dark depths of his pantry, he pulls out a half-finished bag of sugary cereals. Oh, there’s some chocolate in there, as well. His morning is better already.

      At that very moment, unbeknownst to him as he is enjoying a sugar rush, Sean’s diet is gone. Over the next couple of weeks, he will be enjoying his old ways to the limit, like a man chugging a bottle of water after finding his way out of the desert.

      On a sunny Monday morning, after seeing his old childhood buddy jogging at the local park and looking younger than ever, Sean tells himself, This time will be different. Let’s make a breakfast salad.

      It Seems There’s No Escape

      This time is never different.

      You make some progress, the future is all rainbows and unicorns, and then it isn’t. Suddenly you don’t even remember why you wanted to introduce this change. What was the point again? Give up

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