Embracing Change: Essential Steps to Make Your Future Today (Personal development) (Paperback)

~ Tony Buzan (Author)

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Master change and achieve your goals Change is a feature of our lives. Everything around us and even inside us is constantly changing, whether we like it or not. In his latest bestseller, Tony Buzan draws on his highly effective Mind Mapping and mental development techniques to help you understand and master change. Whatever your current circumstances, Tony enables you to develop your confidence in the face of change, and enhance your ability to transform your future. Change Understand change and how you are affected by it. Enable Realize how flexible you can be in response to change. Transform Use Buzan's Tools for Transformation to turn change into opportunity.

About the Author

Tony Buzan is the world's leading authority on the brain and learning. His ground-breaking note-taking technique, Mind Maps, offers a route to improved study and better understanding. His million-copy selling books on the subject have achieved massive success in more than 100 countries and have been translated into 30 languages. He has lectures worldwide and acts as advisor to numerous multi-national companies, governments, leading businesses and international Olympic athletes. He is also President of the Brain Foundation, founder of the Brian Trust Charity, the World Memory Championships and the World Championships of the Brain.

Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: BBC Active (January 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0563487623
• ISBN-13: 978-0563487623
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,391,312 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Embracing Change, May 17, 2006

By	Maxim Masiutin (Chisinau, Republic of Moldova) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In this book, Tony Buzan, as usual, reiterates his favourite techniques like Mind Maps, TEFCAS, Radian Thinking, etc. If you've read other books by Tony Buzan, you may find parts of this book monotonous, uninteresting and not engaging readers' interest. However, there were valuable thought worth consideration in the other parts of the book.

Everything changes around us. According to Darwin, neither the strongest nor the smartest species will survive but that will be able to adapt to the changes of the environment. If we resist changing, we will be at a loss. Procrastination is a form of resistance to change. The body may be the first thing that we postpone taking care of. If we are unfit and our nourishment is poor, all our energy levels will slide. We will become stagnant: in the sense of becoming unmoving, unchanging, our changing towards becoming more unchanging! A body that is stagnant will eventually corrupt itself, It will disrupt the immune system, lose its ability to self-heal, will have no freedom of will, no ability to act to preserve its goal and its ability to change.

"I can't afford to" is the common cry is often used to explain why action is impossible. Money is often seen as a reason or used as an excuse for not being able to change; for remaining stuck in a job, a relationship, a home that you prefer to leave. In fact, them main capital for bringing about change is not financial capital; it is intellectual capital: your thoughts, your will, your knowledge, your determination. By automatically saying the words "I can't afford it" your brain stops working. By asking the question "How can I afford it?" your brain is put to work, and you are becoming to change.

Consider a tree while you are at the center, with branches that represent basic categories such as Home, Friends, Love and Sex, Family, Children, Work, Hobbies, Creativity, Finances, Health and Fitness, Spirit, or others, that suit your needs. To maintain healthy balance it is essential that throughout periods of time where the emphasis of your life changes you keep the overall balance stable. As once branch of your life grows (e.g. Work), take care to keep the other basic branches strong also, so you do not neglect the roots of your stability that nourish your ongoing growth.

Please consider reading books by Margaret J. Wheatley in addition to this book. She writes much about change. "Our old views constrain us. They deprive us from engaging fully with this universe of potentials", she writes.