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From: Judy Kuster
Date: 07 Oct 2010
Time: 10:16:38 -0500
Remote Name: 76.17.183.48
Thanks for the kind comments, Julie. You are right about change being very difficult! In my counseling and communication disorders class I always used to challenge the students to "change something." I didn't care what they chose - losing weight, drinking 8 glasses of water a day, exercising for 30 minutes 3 times/week, etc. We discussed how it was going in the middle of the semester and then at the end, they shared their progress and what they learned from the experience. They shared how difficult it was, how keeping a journal helped some of them, how important it was to announce to someone what they were doing to have someone else accountable to, how easy it was to slip back or give up, how important it was to choose a realistic and measureable goals and develop small steps to achieve success, etc. Judy