- Divorce, lob loss, health issues – you’ve been through a lot of these tough changes and outline strategies for dealing with change in your book: Does Change have to be so H.A.R.D.? Julie, what did you discover?
- You use H.A.R.D. as an acronym. What does that stand for?
- Why do you say we are enslaved by our thoughts and attached to our own thinking? Tell us why people often stick with the status quo even when it’s bad.
- How can people recognize when fear is holding them back from making positive changes?
- Can change ever be easy?
- You say motivation is a key to making a change and being able to follow through. What motivates people to change?
- What are your eight strategies for making change easier?
- Is there one strategy that is more important than the others? How do the strategies work in practice?
- You mention character development as one of the strategies. What does character development have to do with making changes?
- What’s the importance of changing your environment?
- You have a background in psychiatric nursing so you’ve learned a lot about addiction and recovery. How does that relate to other changes such as divorce or losing weight?
- You have had a great deal of personal experience with change and you share a lot of that in your writings. How did you get started on this quest for an easier approach to change?
- Your book uses the concept of a “wall” and displays a wall on the cover. What’s does it mean in the context of facing change?
- What’s the message that you want people to take away?
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