Tennis legend Andre Agassi unveils a critical life lesson: the essence of embracing the present. Influenced by author William P. Young's counsel, he advocates for psychological agility and mindfulness as vital tools for surmounting life's hurdles. Agassi underscores the significance of concentrating on the current moment, harnessing control over manageable aspects, and liberating oneself from past regrets and future anxieties.
A stress-is-enhancing mindset in the context of hindrance stressors is nowhere more apparent than in stories found in Undercover Boss, a reality TV series in which a member in upper-management at a major business goes undercover as an entry-level employee to experience the company from a worker’s perspective.
Hindrance stressors that lead to procrastination aren’t about usual stressors–the familiar stressors that constitute challenge stressors–too little time, too much to do, or the complexity of the task at hand. Here are effective ways to address hindrance stressors and overcome the procrastination it can trigger.
One strategy doesn’t work to crush procrastination, no matter how good it is. What you need is a multifaceted approach that accounts for all the factors that contribute to your success . . . or failure.
That’s why we created a proven, science-based behavior design model to make procrastination a thing of the past for you.
In this post, learn the Be Your Own Best Coach Behavior Design Model and the power it offers to help you tackle procrastination in new and more effective ways.
When you’re struggling with procrastination, beating yourself up, sweating bullets in fear that you’ll not be able to pull off what you need to do, feeling miserable and maybe even paralyzed, it’s easy to fail to recognize alternative perspectives. Learn how to stop procrastinating in this ultimate guide to procrastination.
We are officially launching the fall cohort of Be Your Own Best Coach, our flagship online course on how to build the crucial self-leadership skills.
This year, we’ll be expanding our focus to self-leadership. Self-leadership isn’t a term you hear everyday, not like “resilience.” And yet, self-leadership is exactly what you must have if you are a professional, entrepreneur, or someone in transition and want to accelerate your career. That’s because self-leadership is fundamental to individual and collective success.
Paralyzed by procrastination or self-doubt? You may have experienced at least one of these common physical symptoms: nausea, stomach ache, tight neck, cramping shoulders, back pain, and headache. And you may have struggled through sleepless nights, tossing and turning.
All that anguish and pain is driven by your automatic, instinctual response to whatever stressors or challenges you’re experiencing.
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