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Developing a Powerful Coaching Methodology: Combining Theory and Practice

Developing a Powerful Coaching Methodology: Combining Theory and Practice

Coaching can be defined as an "emerging cross-disciplinary occupation, its primary purpose being to enhance well-being, improve performance and facilitate individual and organizational change" (Grant, 2005; pp.1). Grant also stated the key characteristics of coaching: 1. A collaborative relationship between client and coach 2. Solution-focused approach 3. Goal-setting 4.

Tips for Staying Healthy and Resilient

Tips for Staying Healthy and Resilient

Mental and physical health are interconnected and greatly contribute to subjective well-being. It is hard to feel happy and content when we are tired, hungry, and dealing with various physical and mental illnesses. Adopting healthy habits will contribute to your happiness and increase your quality of life. The best part

The Art of Self-Motivation and How to Stay Inspired

The Art of Self-Motivation and How to Stay Inspired

Self-motivation is the key to success and perseverance. While it's beneficial to have people who believe in us and cheer us on, there will be times when we will need to rely on ourselves. Self-motivation is also essential for staying on track once we start a project. If you are

Distinguishing Constructive Criticism from Negative Comments

Distinguishing Constructive Criticism from Negative Comments

Though they might claim otherwise, most people are not good at giving and receiving constructive feedback. Some people even avoid situations where they might be evaluated. If you are one of them - now is the time to stop. Feedback is a key ingredient for personal and professional growth. It

How to Enhance Productivity and Efficiency in Business Processes

How to Enhance Productivity and Efficiency in Business Processes

Improving productivity and work efficiency is not only important for professional success but also benefits our mental health and well-being, allowing us to maintain a work-life balance. Besides clear benefits for individuals, enhanced productivity is also good for organisations. More tasks completed with higher quality will ensure profit. Just as

How Emotional Exhaustion Impacts Mental and Physical Health

How Emotional Exhaustion Impacts Mental and Physical Health

Modern lifestyle and constant increase of demands in professional and private life often lead to physical and emotional exhaustion. We even normalize being constantly tired as an inevitable part of adulthood. However, emotional exhaustion is a signal our body is sending us that we are running out of resources to

How to Master Your Emotions and Manage Them in Challenging Situations

How to Master Your Emotions and Manage Them in Challenging Situations

Although it might seem that emotions, in particular emotional regulation and intelligence, have become more popular topics lately, it's true that emotions have intrigued scientists for a long time. Even Darwin was interested in emotions, and he observed similar patterns of facial expressions in humans and animals. He found confirmation

Cultivating Gratitude: How Practicing Gratitude Can Improve Your Life

Cultivating Gratitude: How Practicing Gratitude Can Improve Your Life

For so many years, psychology's focus was on psychopathology and mental illness. The main goal was to understand the occurrence of mental problems, the course and outcomes of mental illness, and providing support, if not the remedy. Although these topics are undeniably very important and should be explored, it is

How can life coaching help you reach your full potential?

How can life coaching help you reach your full potential?

One of the most famous psychological theories of motivation state that the final goal is to become the best version of ourselves. You probably heard about Maslow's theory of self-actualization, so we will not repeat it. Many of us can agree, from personal experience, that our need for personal growth

What a perfect week should look like

What a perfect week should look like

Many years ago, I wrote The Efficiency Journal, which sold thousands of copies. A little later, I converted The Efficiency Journal into an online course and called it C-Flow. Defining the Ideal Week: Balancing Health, Wealth, and Relationships I'm not the most productive person in the world or the biggest

What Does a Life Coach Do? A Guide to the Role of a Life Coach

What Does a Life Coach Do? A Guide to the Role of a Life Coach

In previous years, coaching and particularly life coaching, has gained a lot of popularity. Along with popularity, there is also some sort of controversy about what life coaching is and whether it is effective. In this article, we will shortly summarize what life coaching is, what are potential benefits, and

How is Life Coaching Different from Therapy, Counseling, and Consulting?

How is Life Coaching Different from Therapy, Counseling, and Consulting?

In recent years, the popularity of mental health topics as well as self-actualization, increased. Many people want to discover and fulfill their full potential and achieve subjective well-being. Furthermore, various programs and services were developed in order to provide additional support for people who need it. How to pick the

Do what you love. Love what you do

Do what you love. Love what you do

The 80/20 rule. How the Pareto Principle can help you on your path to success

The 80/20 rule. How the Pareto Principle can help you on your path to success

Although no one can say what would be the exact formula of success we know that several factors are necessary: skills, hard work, and a little bit of luck. When things do not go as we want, the first thought of many people is that they need to put in

Effective work. How to increase your efficiency

Effective work. How to increase your efficiency

What does it mean to be efficient? Based on Meriam Webster's dictionary (n.d.) word "efficient" could be defined as" capable of producing desired results with little or no waste (as of time or materials)". Therefore it is not surprising that being efficient is highly valued both by organizations and

Work-life balance. How to find balance in personal and professional life

Work-life balance. How to find balance in personal and professional life

In recent years, work-life balance issues have been getting more and more attention both from scholars and practitioners. It feels like demands keep increasing, and each of us is supposed to have multiple obligations and roles. So it is really easy to get stuck in the loop where we desperately

Why is comparing yourself to others a bad habit

Why is comparing yourself to others a bad habit

Try to describe yourself in 3 words. Smart, succesfull, pretty? Good. Compared to whom? Ironically, even self-reflection (often) includes comparison to others. Being social beings, other people are crucial for our life, opinion but also self-esteem. Observational learning is one of the most important ways how we learn what behavior

How sleep and mental health affect each other

How sleep and mental health affect each other

How Is Mental Health Related to Sleep? Even though science has provided many answers regarding sleep and its functions, there is still a lot of unknown. We know that sleep is important (especially if we don't sleep well), but we do not exactly know what is going on during sleep.

Benefits of reading - Why should you read books?

Benefits of reading - Why should you read books?

Why is reading important? When was the last time when you read the book? How many books do you finish on a yearly basis? How many minutes are you reading daily? It seems that reading is slowly losing the battle over the Internet, social media, and other forms of modern

How to make an excellent (a good) first impression and why is it important

How to make an excellent (a good) first impression and why is it important

What are first impressions? First impressions are “the initial perceptions and inferences one party makes about another party based on exposure to some set of cues” (Swider et al., 2022; pp. 346). Typical for first impressions is that they are formed quickly, based on a limited set of information, and

Start Coaching Business - a step-by-step guide

Start Coaching Business - a step-by-step guide.

What Do Coaches Do? Although coaching has grown in popularity in the past few decades, it is not an entirely novel approach. There is an indication (Passmore & Lai, 2019) that some kind of workplace coaching was present even in 1937. Nowadays, coaching is not only work-related but covers various domains.

Principles for Building Strong Business Teams

Principles for Building Strong Business Teams

Many entrepreneurs believe that good employees require time to grow. They educate, teach, and train them according to their business requirements. Then try to find ways to motivate them to do their job well. Lastly, they think of ways to keep hard-working employees from leaving the company. This approach is

archetypes, collective unconscious, individuation theory

Carl Gustav Jung: archetypes, collective unconscious, individuation theory

In this article, we will talk about Carl Gustav Jung and his key ideas that every intellectual should know. Some of his ideas formed the basis of metacognitive programming. You have probably heard about the concept of archetypes many times, but only within the Jungian framework of the collective unconscious

How to start loving yourself?

How to start loving yourself?

Self-love could appear more of a luxury than a necessity. However, self-love is far from being a new-age craze for people with too much free time. There is no unique definition of it, though. In fact, we all might have very different definitions. That is not so surprising, as there

The Law of Gratitude from a Psychological Perspective

The Law of Gratitude from a Psychological Perspective

“For everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” You have probably heard this phrase many times and in different contexts but do not fully understand its meaning. From the