My daughter and I found Magdalena Bak Meier’s work through her TEDx St Andrews. We found her short presentation both delightful and informative. She shared her own story of how learning who we really are, and what motivates us, helps us reach our goals made us laugh. Her neuroscience research, informed by positive psychology and Carl Rogers, also cheered us up immediately. Six months later, I started to take her workshops, in this order: ‘Goal Getter’, ’14-day Habit Bootcamp’ and ‘Introduction to The Grid’, all of which I employed to help me recover from a chronic health condition while also completing an MLitt in Creative Writing. Though I received a distinction for my work, recovering my health proved much more complicated and so learning how to support myself while the external mechanisms slowly put a medical diagnostic picture together proved been essential. An indirect benefit in supporting my daughter also became apparent as time went on: she was in Sixth Form and choosing her next steps for study and career. Using the Goal-getter model, in particular, allowed me to give her complete freedom to do things in her own way yet offer guidance, in the light of what I was learning, if and when she asked for help. She graduated with straight A’s and is now studying architecture. Trusting the implicit process seeking to unfold within ourselves, and others, is easier when we have a model.
I can honestly say that the 14 Day Habit Builder works! This tool has helped me to change the way I think and process life and work events and helped me learn how to control my emotions.
I now have new ideas, new habits I plan to integrate in my daily life with the help of the knowledge and tools the 14-Day Habit Builder has given me.
This great challenge helped me learn that I can change and improve the way I work. I also learned that having a specific goal in terms of relaxing (watching a movie, doing some activity with my family, reading a book) helps me keep the commitment.
“I realized that my goal was too ambitious for a 14-day habit challenge but I am now more aware of what I want to change and how to maximise the desired result.”
“The 14 Day Challenge helped me notice my trigger points when I’m spending money. I now have a plan I can stick to. This activity brought more awareness into my actions. Very powerful!”
“The thought of not screaming or being violent towards my daughter for 14 days helped me stop this bad habit. I am now embarking on more 14 days :-) All the time we were together was better without me losing my temper.”
“With the 14 Day Challenge I managed to create an habit of regularly reading scientific papers (so that I keep updated in my research area). This is what I always wanted to do but somehow could not achieve before. Now I can just keep this up!”
“The 14 Day Challenge helped me stop reading e-mails from 21h00 to 07h00 of the next day. It was really good how this small detailed impacted on the way I use my time.”
“I started following the plan and reading every day what was my commitment. So I planned my day and my tasks according to it. I filled in the 14-day sheet every day to understand how I was doing. The general feeling was of happiness and fulfilment, because I could finish my tasks and still had time to do other things unrelated to work, which lately I was unable to do. Thank you so much!”
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