As a motivation and addiction expert, Dr. Pantalon has a coaching/training practice, which you’ve learned about at this site, as well as, an outpatient addiction practice at the Center for Progressive Recovery. At the Center for Progressive Recovery, we believe that true recovery comes from within the addicted individual versus from outside pressure. Thus, the responsibility for change is placed in the hands of the clients by acknowledging that they are FREE to decide whether or not to change, FREE to decide WHY they might want to change and FREE to choose HOW they would like to change. This approach, while counterintuitive to some, is the best way science has to offer for motivating people with addictions, especially if they have been resistant to change in the past. When they are freed to make their own decisions, a reserve of internal motivation for a new life may finally come forward and with it actual steps toward recovery.

If you’re looking to address your or a loved one’s addiction in an alternative, science-based, outpatient manner, please contact us at info@centerforprogressiverecovery.com or 203-506-3134 for more information. Dr. Pantalon will personally reply and answer all of your questions.

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Sign up for my Instant Influence mailing list and get the 10-minute Read It For Me video summary of my book Instant Influence. Sign up in by January 15th and also get the Instant Influence Executive Summary and Instant Influence Workbook.

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Because so many people ask me how to apply INSTANT INFLUENCE to weight loss and because losing weight is a very popular New Year’s resolution, I decided to give you my 2 best tips on the topic. As a motivation and health behavior change expert, I can tell you that the following are the best things to ask yourself if you want to lose weight.

1) “On a scale from 1-10, how ready am I to _________ (fill in blank with a weight loss action, such as eat more fruits and vegetables or exercise 3x this week), where 1=not at all and 10=totally? Pick a number.
(TIP: Do NOT put “lose weight” in the blank because that’s not an action- it’s the result of many actions. You can only motivate yourself to take action. Your body takes care of the result).

2) “Why didn’t I pick a LOWER (yes, lower) number on the scale?” That way, you’re asking yourself to think about why you have any amount of motivation, which is far more motivational than asking yourself why you didn’t pick a higher number, which would only make you think about why you are NOT more motivated. Unfortunately, society has trained us to ask, “Why can’t I change?” (NOT motivational) far, far more often than “Why might I change?” (VERY motivational).

If you said “1″ on the scale (which is unlikely), then change the action, make the action easier or ask yourself, “What would it take to make my ’1′ turn into a ’2′?” (Possible Answer: “I’d have to change my grocery shopping habits before I could eat more fruits and vegetables.”) and then motivate yourself to do that first.

These 2 tips are part of a scientifically proven method of motivating people to change that I describe fully in my book, “INSTANT INFLUENCE.” Get the book and learn more or sign up for my INSTANT INFLUENCE mailing list and get my FREE webinar.

Happy New Year!

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Like you, I’ve heard of various motivational strategies over the years. But what really works? Well, the best that science has to offer is something called “Motivational Interviewing” (MI). Until now, however, it was only available to mental health and addiction professionals who enrolled in intensive and lengthy trainings. Instant Influence is an ultra-brief adaptation of MI that anyone can learn and use. And it works in 7 minutes!

Sign up for my Instant Influence email list (above) and start learning how to motivate anyone in the comfort of your own home for FREE!

You’ll get…
* The 10-minute video summary of Instant Influence
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* Weekly tips on how to motivate yourself and others in a wide variety of work and home situations.

Whether you’re a professional coach, therapist, executive, small business owner, salesperson, trainer or parent, Instant Influence will help you move people to action quickly and effectively.

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http://www.thecareerclinic.com/images/stories/audio/071412hour1.mp3

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Check out this NPR story and see how coaches help motivate people to address chronic health-risk behaviors.

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Check out the Pleasure in Learning blog’s take on Instant Influence.

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Usually, your sales pitch goes nowhere. The other person might agree with you, but that won’t spark the desire to take action. That desire—the motivation to act—lives in every single one of us. But the only way to unlock it is with reasons of our own.

THE BOTTOM LINE:
YOUR change, YOUR reasons;
Your CLIENT’S change, your CLIENT’S reasons

“Easier said than done,” you say? Well, attend my FREE webinar (see post below) on ultra-brief motivational interviewing (the basis for Instant Influence) and find out how simply and quickly it can be done.

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SORRY – THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. PLEASE EMAIL ME OR SUBSCRIBE TO MY WEBSITE TO LEARN ABOUT OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.

Ultra-Brief Motivational Interviewing for Coaches: Motivate Your Clients, Grow Your Business
Join us for a webinar on Jul 13, 2012 at 12:00 PM EDT.
Register now!

COACHES: This webinar is for you if…

1) you have clients who are not following through on their coaching plans
and/or
2) you want to grow your coaching business

In order to promote lasting change in your clients and to grow your business, you need to know how to quickly and effectively motivate your clients. This FREE webinar will show you how to do this by teaching you the 6 simple steps of Dr. Pantalon’s ultra-brief adaptation of motivational interviewing – “Instant Influence.” There will be numerous practical demonstrations of the method using YOUR examples, as well as, ample time for questions.

Register NOW because there are limited spaces.

About the Instructor: Michael Pantalon, PhD is an award-winning faculty member and psychologist at Yale School of Medicine, where he teaches courses in clinical psychology and conducts research on the effectiveness of his adaptation of motivational interviewing (the basis of “Instant Influence”). He and his colleagues have received over 22 million dollars in federal funding for their work over the past decade and have published numerous articles on their research, in publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. Dr. Pantalon has taught his adaptation of motivational interviewing to thousands of people from all walks of life: business executives, human resource managers, executive, wellness, lifestyle and career coaches, parents, teachers, sales representatives, probation officers, psychologists and other health care professionals, as well as individuals struggling with a range of health-risk, addictive, and compulsive behaviors. Dr. Pantalon is a motivational coach, consultant, speaker, therapist, and author of the new book, “Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything-Fast” (Little, Brown & Co.).

For more information on Dr. Pantalon and “Instant Influence,” please go to www.michaelpantalon.com.
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Here’s my interview with Gretchen Rubin for her Happiness Project blog. It’s about what makes me happy.

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