The psychological concept of instant gratification refers to the idea that humans like to have what they want right now; not later and they don't want to wait. You will notice that products and services that promise instant push-button results tend to do well (Leahy)
Thank you for choosing me. I know you have a choice in life coaches, with over 12,000 of us worldwide (Pawlowski, 2007, p
I will help you set those goals, if you have a hard time clarifying what they are. Life coaching is "for the sole benefit of the client's learning and achievement of his or her goals," (Williams & Davis, 2002, p
"You can't quit eating. You just have to learn to eat properly for the sake of your health" (Demontis 2012)
Look at the average salad we're eating. If you look at the bacon, the croutons, the cheese…it's fats, salts and a little lettuce" (Trachtenberg 2009)
"The amount of food on a plate or bowl increases intake because it influences consumption norms and expectations and it lessens one's reliance on self-monitoring. It seems that people use their eyes to count calories and not their stomachs" (Wansink, Painter & North 2005:3)
Instead of eliminating foods, the focus should be on making better choices, on selecting healthy foods that nourish the body rather than nutrition-poor foods that trigger cravings. "If you are eating a healthy diet it is so much easier to control your weight" (West 2012)
Bentley (2008) frames the concept and practice of active listening in terms of attending to the other. Active listening is an integral part of the process called attending: that is to attend to the client without paying any attention to the inner static or clutter of the untrained mind (Bentley 2008)
Moreover, Carter-Scott & Stewart (2007) clarify the difference between hearing and listening in terms of attentiveness. "Hearing is passive," whereas "listening can be either passive or active," (Carter-Scott & Stewart 2007)
As Dunbar (2009) points out, many life coaches take for granted that they are already good at listening and forget the pitfalls of poor or passive listening. Listening skills fluctuate and can never take them for granted, especially by a professional life coach (Dunbar 2009)
Both coaches and counselors depend on strong communication skills. Empirical evidence shows that listening actively yields results "Compared to peer coachees and controls, coachees of professional coaches were more engaged in the coaching process, had greater goal commitment and progression, and greater well-being in terms of environmental mastery," (Spence & Grant 2007)
Some of those tools are proprietary such as the Listening Guide, which is developed specifically for life coaches. The Listening Guide "is a qualitative, relational, voice-centered methodology, which may be used to seriously reflect on the ways in which we listen to our clients, learn from them, and form relationships with them," (Woodcock 2010)
Similarly, Young & Cates (2010) found that mentoring and life coaching share in common an emphasis on strong listening. Both empathic and directive listening, which involve tuning into the client and focusing on client needs, can enhance the professional life coach-client relationship (Young & Cates 2010)
Relaxation Engine Most of mainstream medical Western medicine overlooks the mind and body connection and treats these two separate systems independently. However, most ancient healing practices, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, emphasize the links between the mind and the body (Ehrlich, 2011)
There are different cognitive behavior treatments that can help offset the pressures that this demographic faces. For example, mindfulness-based cognitive intervention with adults has been found to be highly effective and as such it has been the subject of much research in the past few decades (Lau & Hue, 2011)
It is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation" (Covey, 2013)
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days" (Dillard, 2013)
The Quaker expression, "idle hands are the devil's workshop," is fundamentally the same concept. An aphorism attributed Lao-tzu, a Chinese philosopher, is: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (Lao-tzu)
The basics of solution -- focused coaching come from humanistic psychology and particularly from self-determination theory (Visser, 2011). Thus, the overall mindset of solution -- focused coaching assumes that people strive for autonomy, competence, and relatedness (Deci & Ryan, 2011)
Visser (2011) defines solution -- focused coaching as viewing and treating clients as competent and unique individuals as well as being responsive to helping clients visualize the changes they wish to make, responding to what clients tell the coach, and then building on the successful past experience of the client step-by-step in order to reach goals. Solution -- focused coaches assume that people are autonomous and competent, desire to do good, enact change by a specific process, respond better to positive reinforcement/events, and work better in a cooperative environment (Visser, 2012a)