Personal Behavior Change

What if the key to improving every relationship, breaking every bad habit, and making better decisions wasn't a matter of willpower, but of understanding the science of behavior? How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst brings one of the most powerful frameworks in modern psychology to everyday people who want real, lasting change. Written in plain English and packed with practical examples, this book translates the evidence-based methods used by professionals in schools, clinics, businesses, and sports coaching into a toolkit anyone can use, no graduate degree required. Inside, you'll discover...

Many family fights, communication break downs, relationship disconnections, and overall stress and frustration can be solved if parents and children learn the principles and skills of self-government. This second edition of Parenting: A House United is the improved version of Nicholeen’s original basic guide for establishing a united self-governing family.

How People Grow reveals why all growth is spiritual growth and how you can grow in ways you never thought possible. Our desire to grow runs deep. Yet the issues in our lives and relationships that we wish would change often stay the same, even with our best efforts at spiritual growth. What does...

"I know what to do. I just don't do it." If you've ever said those words—or heard them from a friend, employee, student, team member, or client—this book is for you. In order to change we assume people need more information. More motivation. More accountability. A better plan. But what if we've been solving the wrong problem? After 40+ years as a therapist, executive coach, organizational consultant, and university professor, Dr. Lawrence Pfaff came to a different conclusion. The greatest obstacle to change isn't a lack of knowing what to do. It's a lack of readiness to do it. That's ...

Life is hard, so choose the kind of hard that leads to freedom. Choose Your Hard blends behavior science with spiritual wisdom to help you make intentional choices around habits, relationships, money, health, and healing. Grounded, practical, and empowering, this book is your guide to living with clarity, resilience, and energetic integrity.

Why is it so hard to make healthy habits stick and why do bad habits feel impossible to break? If you’ve ever set ambitious goals on New Year’s Day only to fall back into old patterns weeks later, you aren’t lazy or lacking willpower. The truth is simple: willpower is a finite resource, but systems are built to last. To create true, permanent transformation, you don't need more motivation, you need a better blueprint for human psychology. In Behavior Change: Strategies for Creating Healthy Habits, you will discover an actionable, science-backed framework to rewrite your daily routines...

"Warning: this book will make you a better parent, partner, colleague, and friend." —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential Unlock the secret to true and lasting change. We all spend a lot of energy trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts...

Why Boys Don’t Listen to Their Mothers reveals eye-opening principles and techniques designed to train adults on the best ways to manage, guide, and treat boys with behavioral problems. It does not disappoint as the content is filled with step-by-step instructions, stories, examples, and scenarios to help you get the results you’ve been searching for.

This program is read by the author. A landmark audiobook about how we form habits, and what we can do with this knowledge to make positive change We spend a shocking 43 percent of our day doing things without thinking about them. That means that almost half of our actions aren’t conscious...

If it feels as if your child is at a point of no return and there’s nothing you can do to turn the situation around, don’t despair. Your child’s future is golden, and the joy of every parent is to see to it that their little one becomes the best version of themselves. Every tool, strategy, or idea you need to guide your child in the right direction is in this handbook. Continue fighting for the future of your child, and they will thank you when they’re strong and independent adults living their best lives.

Human Agency Explained: Albert Bandura on Self-Efficacy, Personal Control, and Changing Your Life is a practical introduction to the ideas that shape purposeful action. Drawing on Albert Bandura’s psychology, it explains why some people take initiative, persist through difficulty, and recover after setbacks, while others hesitate, withdraw, or begin to feel that effort makes no difference. The book centers on self-efficacy, Bandura’s term for the belief that you can carry out the actions a situation requires. That belief influences whether you begin a task, how much effort you invest, ...

A stunning approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on. For...

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems, with this invaluable resource from the social psychologist and author of Unmasking Autism. Systemic Shame is the...

Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind: Habit Change, Neuroplasticity, Visualization, Self-Talk, and Lasting Personal Growth is a practical guide to changing the automatic patterns that drive daily behavior. Many attempts at self-improvement fail because the real problem is not a lack of motivation. It is the set of learned responses running beneath conscious choice. This book explains how those patterns form through repetition, attention, emotion, and reinforcement, and how they can be changed in a deliberate way. It gives readers a clear framework for understanding why they keep returning to ...

Albert Bandura for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide to Habits, Confidence, Motivation, Relationships, and Personal Growth shows how Bandura’s psychology can be used in ordinary decisions, routines, and relationships. Instead of treating his ideas as theory, it puts them to work in the places people actually struggle: starting difficult tasks, sticking with new habits, recovering confidence after failure, managing stress, and changing patterns that feel automatic. The focus is practical: how beliefs about your own ability affect action, why people often wait too long to begin, and how ...

The Spanish bestseller turned international phenomenon, set to be published in 30+ countries. A practical and straightforward manual about the importance of saying “no” assertively. Why is it so hard to set boundaries? Always saying yes when you really mean no leads to anxiety, stress, and...

This “smart and fun read, and a valuable way to revitalize your life” (Walter Isaacson) deftly explains how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate and reset our brains for the better. Have you ever noticed that what is exciting on Monday tends to become boring...

This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over time...

You know what you want to change, but motivation fades, old patterns return, and good intentions get lost in daily life. Build Lasting Change shows you how to create steady progress without relying on willpower, perfection, or forced positivity. Learn how mindset shapes your response to setbacks, how values turn goals into meaningful action, and how small steps make starting easier. Discover practical ways to strengthen motivation, design supportive environments, and build habits around reliable cues. You’ll also learn how to track progress without obsession, work with difficult emotions,...

Stop Lying to Yourself is not another motivational book filled with empty promises and temporary inspiration. It is a direct confrontation with the patterns that keep you stuck—and a practical guide to breaking them for good. If you’ve tried positive thinking, visualization, or “mindset hacks” and still found yourself repeating the same results, this book will show you why. The truth is simple: your life doesn’t change because of what you feel or think occasionally. It changes because of what you do consistently. This book exposes the hidden cycle behind stagnation—desire ...