Coaching articles
Showing page 9 of 22 - There are 655 Coaching articles
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Live healthy - six steps to a healthy life
- Six steps we can take to reduce our risks for heart disease There are certain steps that we can take to reduce our risks of ever getting heart disease and having a heart attack.For people like me who already have heart disease we can only do two things.Follow these steps in order to prevent the progression of our disease.Hope that a cure w...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Guilt: is it getting in the way of your self-care?
- When Do We Usually Feel Guilty? When:We're not feeling ok about who we are.We're not feeling ok about the choices we're making.We haven't met our own expectations.We haven't met the expectations (real or imagined) of someone else or society at large.How Does Guilt Affect Your Self-Care?Guilt can come out in a number of ways, hurting yourself ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Profitable idea generation in 4 steps using improv
- A large percentage of business are stuck, tied to narrow ways of thinking about themselves and their products. In the business environment you can't be stuck and survive.Using the techniques of stage Improv, companies and their employees can free their minds so that profit will follow. If you have ever watched "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", a comedy sketch show by Drew Carey, then yo...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The problem with blame? if you fix the blame, you ignore the problem
- Have you ever found yourself in a hurry to leave the house for an appointment when you could not find your car keys?Imagine that you and a friend are in a hurry to leave for an important event. You turn over the couch cushions, rifle through the newspapers on the dining room table, search your previous day's pants pockets, and dig through your purse. Your car keys are nowhere to be found....
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Curse of competence: how being good gets in the way of becoming great
- Just before the storms hit last winter, my father-in-law and I replaced 26 feet of fence on my property. I must say, for a couple of non-handyman-sorts like the two of us, it is a very well done fence.The fence posts are appropriately spaced and perfectly vertical. Four nails are equally distributed on the fence boards to allow for shrinking and expanding. The boards are evenly spaced and l...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Communicating anger compassionately
- Whether it is irritability or unmitigated rage, anger is an emotion everyone knows about. Unfortunately, few people have been taught how to mange this feeling in an assertive and compassionate way. If we resort to raising our voice, yelling, or lashing out when we are angry; that is an aggressive expression of anger. Approximately 70% of people have a tendency to suppress anger. In other words, th...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - So why are they really here?
- It does make you wonder sometimes, doesn't it? You know the folks I'm talking about. The ones who seem to be wandering around in the middle of a fog bank. The ones without a clue apparently, as to what life is all about. We see their stories on the evening news, we hear about them from our friends or co-workers, we may even know some of them.These are the "unfortunates". The ones ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret of self-esteem
- Have you ever thought about what really creates self-esteem? Having a deep sense of inner worth is important to all of us, but many people have some false beliefs about what creates confidence in our own merit as individuals.Some of the common false beliefs regarding what creates self-esteem are:I will feel good about my self when I'm making $______(fill in the amount)...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Addiction to blame
- Allen consulted with me because his wife of 18 years had threatened to leave him if he didn't stop blaming her all the time. He admitted to frequently blaming her in a variety of situations. He blamed her if he thought she made a mistake, if he thought she was wrong about something, if he was feeling alone, or even if he had a bad day at work. He blamed her for asking him questions when he didn't ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Addiction to thinking
- Randall sought my help because he was stuck being miserable and had no idea how to get out of his misery. In his life he had experienced moments of great joy and sense of oneness with all of life, but those moments were infrequent. He wanted more of those moments but had no idea how to bring them about.Randall is an extremely intelligent man, but in some ways he was using his own intelligen...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Addiction to worry
- Carole started counseling with me because she was depressed. She had been ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a long time and believed her depression was due to this. In the course of our work together, she became aware that her depression was actually coming from her negative thinking - Carole was a constant worrier. Many words out of her mouth centered around her concerns that something bad mi...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating supportive environments
- I'm writing this on my laptop in a Cosi café in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. The reason I am here has nothing to do with me or my business, but the reason I can continue to be successful in my work is because I have set myself up to do so. How? By creating supportive environments. In this case, the laptop, the appropriate software, and the ability to connect to the Internet, ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Freedom for all; is it possible?
- Freedom for all species and people, and freedom of stress; is it possible? Could the Internet be a tool to getting there?Freedom, what is it? I am an Internet writer whose job is to write about the Internet. Does that mean I am locked into this one area? Am I allowed to write about other things? Well today I am going to test out my supposed freedom, by writing about freedom. Some people say...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Enhancing life for a lifetime
- Do you often feel lonely, anxious, or even depressed? Is a mid-life or quarter-life crisis threatening your confidence, self-esteem and well-being? Do you yearn for practical advice on enhancing, balancing and bringing new joy to your personal and professional life?Tens of millions of Americans answer a resounding "yes" to one or more of those questions. After all, statistics repo...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Success: cant achieve it by yourself? pay a professional!
- So many people go through the motions of trying to achieve success. But just going through the motions doesn't work. And while you may fool a few people for a little while, you can't fool yourself. If you truly want to be successful and can't achieve success by yourself, do the smart thing and pay a professional to help you.It's unbelievable how many people will spend money on the most friv...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Life - is it just an illusion?
- It's a well-known fact that electrons and atoms move at the speed of light, technically flickering in and out of existence. In other words, half of the time we are actually not here.Our reality, or existence if you will, is in essence a perceived reality, much like a movie or those animated cartoons. The speed with which the pages of the cartoon characters are flipped, gives the illusion an...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Live with an attitude of gratitude
- Imagine for a moment one of those nights when you just can't fall asleep and you have to get up early the next morning for a very important meeting of which you are the keynote speaker. Your alarm clock goes off early in the morning waking you from what little sleep you had. You stumble out of bed, have a quick shower, grab a coffee and some toast, and off you go to fight the traffic on the way to...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What you see is what you get
- H. Jackson Brown Jr. once wrote, Your mind can only hold one thought at a time, make it a positive and constructive one. As simple as these words may seem, they are in fact, very true. You see, if you are looking for a way to feel better at any given moment, all you have to do is change what you are focusing on. Your brain is a very powerful tool that you own and you should use to your advantage....
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Moment of magic
- Laughter may or may not be a shock, relieved, but its' therapeutic effects are recognised in most cultures. It allows a positive distractive moment or moments. When things are tough, rough, overbearing or endless, a quick laugh can help to transcend an obsessive reality.Where could the harm lie?Where the outcome is refreshment, where is the loss? A few moments of production lost to r...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Friends?
- I met my friend when we were in graduate school, and we enjoyed hanging out together outside of classes. After receiving our degrees, we both left school to live in different states. That was 10 years ago.We've kept in touch, but our phone conversations and twice-a-year visits became opportunities for my friend to talk endlessly about her problems. When I tried to fill her in on my own life...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anger: to control or to learn
- Many of us will do anything to avoid another's anger, yet may be quick to anger ourselves. Many of us dread another's anger yet continue to use our own anger as a way to control others.Let's take a deeper look at what generates our anger and how we can learn from it rather than be at the mercy of it.The feeling anger can come from two different places within us. Anger that comes from...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The good, the bad and the ugly: how do you change the world?
- Recently, I saw an exhibition of paintings by a very talented artist. He clearly has a social conscience and his depictions of the pain and misery of disenfranchised and minority people are so vivid and real you can't help but feel the pain in viewing the paintings.The artist is a warm, friendly, humble man whom I approached with a question, "does he ever paint another side of life?" He see...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Take responsibility for reshaping your life
- We say we want to eat better, feel better, and look better. But in order to make our goals materialize, we have to take responsibility for what we want by taking the appropriate actions. Here are three simple steps to help you turn your healthy goals into concrete accomplishments:Step One: Blame No One. Pointing fingers at the fast food industry, the media or your mother is not going to mov...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to adopt a losing attitude
- We have all heard the expression, "Where your heart is?, your treasure will be also." Allow me to modify this tried and true wisdom, to create an equally valid point: "Where your thoughts are, your hips will be also." What do I mean by this? Try this experiment: Take a few seconds to write the first the five words that pop into your head in response to this question: How do I d...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Think, pause & talk
- There are two kinds of peoples we generally face in every walk of life1] who talks negative and excessive and2] who talks whenever required or talks right and right time.But in reality we get attracted towards person who talks negative and excessive, it gives us fun and tax-free entertainment and we get fascinated and influenced by such activities..... is it good or bad..... t...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Attention! thought crossing! ? or, the secret of what?s between your ears
- What are you thinking - right now? 'I'm reading your article!' you say. Well, take a little bit of a closer look. What's spinning in the back of your mind? Is it that big deadline that's looming at the end of the week? Or how you're going to deal with your mother-in-law this weekend? Or maybe you're worrying about your finances?Are you even aware of the thoughts going through your head righ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The adventure attitude
- Of the 60,000 people who lived to be over 100 in the United States in 2002, the single most important characteristic they had in common was their ability to be positive in the face of change. They were able to look at things objectively, put them in perspective and move on. They didn't try to control the uncontrollable. Surviving, thriving and living a long happy healthy life may just depend on yo...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You have the right
- The other day I was having a interesting conversation with an acquaintance, but it soon turned out to be surprising and unpleasant. The other person blurted out an unwelcome comment, in a tactful manner by pin pointing a personal issue within the conversation.What did I do? I immediately gave her an answer back within the conversation as well. It was subtle unlike my husband who would stop ...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal power
- All of us would love to have personal power ? the power to manifest our dreams, the power to remain calm and loving in the face of fear, the power to stay centered in ourselves in the face of attack.Our society often confuses personal power - "power within" - with "power over," which is about controlling others. There is a vast difference between personal power and contr...
-
- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The difference between approval and appreciation
- Having worked with individuals, couples, families and business partners for 35 years, helping them learn to resolve conflict, I have often been faced with the difficulties that occur when people are confused about the difference between approval with appreciation. Have you ever wondered about the difference between approval and appreciation? Most of us have never actually thought about it, yet if ...