Free Online Tool Helps You Position Your Good Intentions for Success

Jan. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- Do your good intentions often bite the dust? If so, clinical psychologist, author and inventor, Dr. Steve Levinson, may be able to help. He's developed a free online tool that's designed to improve people's ability to follow through on their own good intentions.

"How to Develop a Follow Through Plan" is a Flash-based tutorial that takes users step by step through the process of positioning any chosen good intention for success.

Levinson has spent over a quarter of a century helping people follow through on their own good intentions. Co-author of the critically-acclaimed book, "Following Through: A Revolutionary New Model for Finishing Whatever You Start," he is also inventor of the MotivAider®, a remarkably simple personal electronic device that helps people of all ages follow through on making desired changes in their behavior and habits. The MotivAider®, which is manufactured and marketed by Behavioral Dynamics, Inc.,  has helped thousands of people in 48 countries achieve a wide variety of life-improving changes.

Levinson believes that it's not exactly our fault that our good intentions often crash and burn. "Despite it's awesome capabilities, the human mind is rather poorly wired for follow through," he says. "It does a great job of allowing us to intelligently figure out all sorts of ways we could improve our lives. But, amazingly, it does a really lousy job of connecting our intelligent decisions to our behavior. The result is that we often find ourselves truly intending to do one thing but  actually doing another."  

Levinson is convinced that a key to following through is understanding the mixed-up way the mind treats good intentions. "People commonly make the mistake of assuming that if they have a good reason, like staying healthy, to make a certain change, that good reason will motivate them to actually make the change," he explains. "As irresistibly logical as that may be, the mind just doesn't work that way. A good reason is often just not good enough. Following through requires a truly compelling reason - one that you can really feel in your gut - one that shouts 'Do it now!'"

Levinson says his new online tool, like the MotivAider® and his book, is designed to help people work around the mind's faulty wiring so that they can do a better job of following through. "'How to Develop a Follow Through Plan' is definitely a work in progress," he says. "We plan to improve and expand it based on user feedback."

You can try out "How to Develop a Follow Through Plan" at http://habitchange.com/docn/followthroughplan/index.html.

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