Chapter 10
Understanding the personal change process
Introduction
Nothing is constant. Change occurs whether you welcome it or fight against it. You cannot be bypassed by change – you're ineluctably caught up in it. You have only to examine your life in the previous six or twelve months to see changes, maybe small and subtle or big and spectacular, some things improving, some things not, and you don't have to be clairvoyant to see that the same process lies ahead of you. The important point is how to make the process of change work beneficially for you (for example, improved well-being) rather than counterproductively (for example, increase in personal distress). For example, Derek was made redundant but quickly made plans to retrain ...
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