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How to achieve a goal, the impossibility method

The fifth principle of metacognitive programming is remembering the future (or the impossibility method). Is it obvious to you that you are remembering the future and not creating it? Today's episode is the only category in metacognitive programming that is based on ideas that are hard to prove.

Coaching Dialogs. Episode 2: Accepting Reality

Arguing with reality is one of the central themes in metacognitive programming. Preset expectations of the world and invented pictures of how things “should be” prevent people from recording facts without prejudice and making effective decisions. Instead of seeing reality, many spend time resenting and denying it. The coach’s

Coaching Dialogs. Episode 1: Live Emotions

Sometimes people are unable to move up the corporate ladder because there’s something important about themselves that they don’t see. Until they do, the way up is closed for them. How might the coach's help in such a case look in practice? Let's take

Corporate Coaching: The Key to Success and Development in the Modern Workplace

Core Principles of Corporate Coaching Increasingly challenging and complex business environments have opened the doors for new opportunities in corporate coaching. This burgeoning field has caught on with business leaders for its potential to develop their employees' talent and potential in keeping with the company's values and

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.

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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 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

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

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.

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

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