Hi everyone. Welcome to the Anxiety Guy Podcast episode number 21. Thank you so much for being a part of this

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Support team through there. And with that said, let's get to episode number

21. And episode number 21 has to do with change

has to do with creating a change in your life and I see a lot of people out there

struggling to make a change. Now this change doesn't have to be

anxiety related, it doesn't have to be, you know, anything stress related, it could be a changing a career it could be a

change uh you know you want to lose some weight it could be any kind of change

but you know with the anxiety guide podcast we want to kind of focus on more of the

anxiety more of the mental health aspect of things and really try to get people

to reach their full potentials and that is what this episode is all about.

It's about the six stages of creating a change and I want to come out and just say that I did not come up with this process.

You know I study a lot I read a lot I work with a lot of people on one-on-one coaching and and and I came about this through an article and this

actual this concept of these stages of change was originally developed in the

late 1970s by James Proshka and Carlo DeClemente at the University of

Rhode Island.

So this, you know this these stages have been

around forever and why is it so important that I give you this message today?

Why is it so important that you understand the different stages

of creating a change because it's so important because you skip steps, you skip

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