The Wheel of Change - what it is, and how it can help us to achieve our goals
We’ve all made new year’s resolutions, only to have broken them within a few weeks. This is because making a lasting change in behaviour is not easy or simple. The fact is it takes a lot of effort, emotion, commitment, support, and time. The so-called ‘Wheel of Change’ [James Prochaska, Carlo Di-Clemente] was developed to help people to identify where they are in the cycle of change and to describe how lasting change comes about. An important element to realize is that change