Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.. 5
CHAPTER 1: MAKING CHANGES: “TEACHING AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS” 7
The Need to Be Flexible. 7
An Example of One Man's Self-Transformation. 9
How You Can Change Your Basic Personality Traits. 10
Creating a Better Balance in Your Personality Traits or Expressing Them 12
Here’s How It Works. 14
The Four Steps to Change. 17
Determining How You Want to Change. 19
Recognizing What or Who You Want to Become. 22
Changing Your Overall Personality Orientation and Specific Traits. 26
Using Mental Scripting to See Yourself As You Want to Be. 26
CHAPTER 2: TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND AND IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS 31
Getting a Quick First Impression About the People You Meet 31
Getting First Impressions. 34
Getting Advance Impressions of Someone Before You Meet 35
Gaining In-Depth Insight into Others. 36
Using Visualization and Dog Profiling Techniques to Improve Your Relationships 49
Increasing Your Power in a Relationship. 54
Influencing Your Relationships in Other Ways. 56
CHAPTER 3: A WORKSHOP ON WORKING WITH YOUR GUIDE DOG 59
The Workshop Setting. 59
Meeting One’s Guide Dog (or Dogs) 60
Getting Help from One’s Guide Dogs. 62
Gaining Insights about Another Person. 64
Getting First Impressions. 67
An Exercise on Getting First Impressions. 69
A Day of Seeing Dogs. 71
Learning from the Dog Associations. 74
Making Changes in a Relationship. 76
Setting Up Your Own Workshop. 80