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Comparing Professional Coaching and Therapy

Professional Coaching is very different from therapy and any other helping profession. To promote your understanding of professional coaching here are some similarities and differences between coaching, therapy and other helping professions. Please n...

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Reality Testing & Emotional Intelligence

Has this ever happened to you? You’re sitting there, let’s say you’re at work, and you start to feel chilly, so you grab the sweater off the back of your chair without thinking – the one you keep at work – and slip it on. A few minutes late...

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4 Steps to Assertive Communication

4 Steps to Assertive Communication by: Dr. Tony Fiore “Dr. Fiore,” my 42 year old married patient (Mary) began, “once again my family expects me to host Christmas dinner and I am simply too exhausted; what should I do?” “Why not tell ...

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Four Proven Strategies for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions

Four Proven Strategies for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions by: Dr. Stephen Kraus, Success Scientist 'Tis the season for making – and breaking – New Year's Resolutions… Are you one of the 40-50% of Americans who make a r...

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Difficult Situation as a Present?

Difficult Situation as a Present? by: Catherine Pulsifer When all seems to be doom and gloom, there are still positive possibilities; you just have to look for them. Too often, we only see the negatives. Learn to look at every difficult situati...

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Could Your Thoughts Sabotage Your Happiness?Take this quiz and find out.

Could Your Thoughts Sabotage Your Happiness?Take this quiz and find out. by: Marla Sloane Women are conditioned to be people pleasers. Women are taught to be “nice” even if that’s means comprising their happiness, and often times that is e...

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More Companies Using Job Interview Phone Screening

More Companies Using Job Interview Phone Screening by: Carole Martin Planning and preparing before you begin to send out resumes could save you some embarrassing moments when you receive that unexpected call. You just never know when that phone...

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Do You Have Excuse-itis When Looking for a Job?

Do You Have Excuse-itis When Looking for a Job? by: Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A. How many times have you done or heard someon else say: "I don't have the time, I don't have the money, I don't have my family behind me, and on and on"? ...

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Friends?

Friends? by: Wayne and Tamara Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 18, 2004 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 l...

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Do People Really Take Jobs for Money?

Do People Really Take Jobs for Money? by: Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A. Money motives in American culture appear to be what drives a job seeker to accept a job. Why work if it is not for money? The intangibles count more than money! What are these in...

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