Going the Distance - 7 Steps to Personal Change
Publisher's Description
Rick Hansen has used the insight he gained from his Man in Motion World Tour, an around-the-world wheelchair marathon totaling over 40,000 km. and raising $24 million for spinal cord injury research, rehabilitation, and prevention, for a self-help book on coping with personal change.
Co-authored with psychologist Joan Laub, Going the Distance offers a unique blend of the personal experiences of someone who has suffered monumental change and someone who has actually done research on change itself.
Arguing that people fear change because they lack the tools and skills to manage it, the authors explain the important principles which actually allow people to manage the changes they face in their daily lives. And, unlike other self-help literature, Going the Distance demonstrate how emotions like fear, depression, anger, or guilt can actually be used to inspire positive action.
Hansen and Laub have put together a step-by-step process of managing change that can be easily applied to anyone's life. Simple exercises and tests will help readers assess their own progress. Rick Hansen's personal experiences, in particular his adjustment to life in a wheel chair and his inspiring 24,000 mile odyssey, provides many of the illustrations.
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