People sometimes find themselves addicted to food, to drugs, to alcohol, to people-pleasing, to shopping, to mindless time-wasting. And they have the resolve to change, but not the tools to change.

Now Positive Psychology highlights some tools to change behaviors. How can you modify behaviors for good? What are some tools and techniques? What tools and techniques will work for you? What's the first thing you should do, and then what's the second thing? In what order can you combine the tools of positive psychology towards behavior modification?

In this talk, we will discuss self-regulation, the happiness-choice tradeoff, the Ben Franklin method, creating new trigger activities, lessons from goal theory and hope theory, and incremental successes.

(Sources of information are books and articles by Locke, Latham, Lopez, Snyder, Seligman, Reivich, Bandura, Baumeister, Graybiel, Schwartz, and Franklin.)



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People sometimes find themselves addicted to food, to drugs, to alcohol, to people-pleasing, to shopping, to mindless time-wasting. And they have the resolve to change, but not the tools to change.

Now Positive Psychology highlights some tools to change behaviors. How can you modify behaviors for good? What are some tools and techniques? What tools and techniques will work for you? What's the first thing you should do, and then what's the second thing? In what order can you combine the tools of positive psychology towards behavior modification?

In this talk, we will discuss self-regulation, the happiness-choice tradeoff, the Ben Franklin method, creating new trigger activities, lessons from goal theory and hope theory, and incremental successes.