What’s your excuse for doing things you shouldn’t be doing? “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently what that which should not be done at all.” These words by Peter Drucker hit me hard when I realized I was doing what I want but not what I need, the different things in life. My initial reaction or an immediate justification to it was–Of course, this shouldn’t be done, but I’m doing it anyway and that’s a problem. What’s your excuse to the things you shouldn’t be doing? James Prochaska, professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Rhode Island has developed a model for the six stages of change we go through before we completely work through any problem as: Pre contemplation, contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance and Recycling/Relapse. I’ll be discussing these stages in detail. Pre contemplation is the first state of change when you have accepted that there’s a problem but you aren’t thinking of its solution just yet. If you find yo...