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If you're already looking to make a change, you might have already passed the stage.

  If you're already looking to make a change, you might have already passed the stage. 2. Contemplation  Here, you start having repeating thoughts about your experiences and what's working for you and what isn't. You might be noticing pros and cons about specific habits. You aren't really feeling the call to action, yet.  3. Preparation  By this stage you've decided you want to change and you're gathering material and information to help you facilitate that change.  For example, if you want to start running, you might go out and get fitted for running shoes. You could call up a friend who has run consistently for a few years and ask how they got started. 
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Yet Republicans (40%) and white Americans (41%) are far less likely than Democrats (54%) and Black

  Yet Republicans (40%) and white Americans (41%) are far less likely than Democrats (54%) and Black  Americans (52%) to say the lessons that “U.S. public school students are currently taught about African-American history” are “appropriate.” The reason for this wariness becomes clear when respondents are shown a list of specific topics drawn from the AP African American studies draft framework — and then asked to say “which U.S. public high school students you think they are appropriate for: No students, only students enrolled in an Advanced Placement (AP) African-American studies course, or all students.” While large majorities of Americans say it is appropriate for all students to study subjects drawn from prior centuries — the civil rights movement (74%), the role of slavery in the Civil War (71%), the history of the slave trade (71%), the experience of African Americans during Reconstruction and Jim Crow (59%) — the numbers are much lower for elements of the curriculum t...
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