What do you think that signing your initials at the end of the chapters accomplished?

[Rosebella]

I think signing your initials at the end helps solidify the commitment to yourself to follow through in changes you decided to make.

[Kristy Khem]

Physically writing on paper (evening writing initials) is an indirect way of acknowledging that you read and understood something. I think the author asked his readers to do this as a written proclamation that they understood the chapter and have the intention of following through with the actions he suggested. It may also be a way to make the book more interactive. However, this will only be effective if a hardcopy version of the book was read. I couldn't physically sign at the end of each chapter since I got the softcopy version.

[HollandBlue]

I think there is the actual signing of it where the eye and the hand coordinate to get it on paper that can be significant, but also there is a vow that is being made that impacts the spirit and the mental part of us that solidifies our commitment to what we have read and that we will implement it. It’s a contract between ourselves and ourselves and for me, that has great meaning to motivate me.

That's the way I see it too. You're making a commitment by signing I think.

[HollandBlue]

I think signing your initials at the end helps solidify the commitment to yourself to follow through in changes you decided to make.

Exactly!

[HollandBlue]

Physically writing on paper (evening writing initials) is an indirect way of acknowledging that you read and understood something. I think the author asked his readers to do this as a written proclamation that they understood the chapter and have the intention of following through with the actions he suggested. It may also be a way to make the book more interactive. However, this will only be effective if a hardcopy version of the book was read. I couldn't physically sign at the end of each chapter since I got the softcopy version.

Maybe you didn't physically sign, but it seems like the intention was there.

[HollandBlue]

I did not sign my initials and did not know the purpose of doing so. Perhaps once I decide to reread it again, I will sign my initials.

Interesting thought.

[Skygiselle]

Signing your initials, to me, was a way to commit to the advice. It was also like a contract if you think about it. Although I wasn’t able to sign it since I’m reading on kindle, it was an intriguing concept that I hadn’t seen before.

[HollandBlue]

According to me signing initials at the end of the chapters is useless and not required.

In some ways I agree with you; I think that the author wanted us to take his book seriously and by signing (even though you're the only one who knows it), it is somehow more of a commitment to change and motivate you.

[HollandBlue]

The author states his reasoning for putting the initial here in the first chapter I believe. It is intended to represent a commitment on your part, to yourself, in an effort to hold you accountable. Like others, I was not able to participate due to my method of reading. I am surprised that the author did not make use of a link to a digital signature of some kind!

That would have been a good idea.

[HollandBlue]

I did not sign my initials because it is impossible to put your initials in a Kindle book. At least in my Kindle.

I did not think it served any purpose because it did not anchor the topics in my mind and just became a rote way of knowing that the chapter was at an end.

Signing your initials doesn't matter if you are not willing to make some changes. You can sign and still never do anything to change your attitude or behavior. It's your motivation and self-discipline that will help you to honor yourself by initialing that page.

Good point!

[HollandBlue]

I got the sense that signing my initials at the end of each chapter was meant to accomplish a commitment to think differently. Yet I did not feel accomplished by even mentally signing my initials to the end of each chapter because the chapters were so short and a lot of the chapters were just full of fluff. I think that if the author had longer chapters with more research that proved certain thinking strategies worked, it would have given me more motivation to sign my initials.

That's a good point, in some ways the author seemed to be putting in the same information using different words to get his point across.

[HollandBlue]

According to me signing initials at the end of the chapters is useless and not required.

It really isn't required, I think it was just the author's way to make you stop to absorb what he was thinking. Thanks for commenting.

[k2kelliher]

I think the purpose of signing your initials was to make some sort of commitment to the information. But, where I read most of my books on a kindle, signing initials is a little difficult.

[HollandBlue]

Since I was reading on a Kindle, I didn't sign my initials. I don't really see the use for doing this.

It seems quite a few agree with you.

[HollandBlue]

Good point about signing documents only after reading them, so many of us rush through things nowadays. That's a good thing to always remember.