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Writing on coaching, mentoring, and personal development.

Mobilize Your Clients with Effective Coaching Questions

January 23, 2025

Mobilize Your Clients with Effective Coaching Questions

Explore 10 powerful coaching questions that spark client awareness, uncover limiting beliefs, and turn goals into clear, actionable plans in every session.

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Crisis Management in an Economic Downturn: Part 1

January 20, 2025

Crisis Management in an Economic Downturn: Part 1

A theory-focused look at crisis management: how researchers define organizational crises, their internal and external causes, and principles of managing them.

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Crisis Management: Real-Life Lessons from a Family Business

January 20, 2025

Crisis Management: Real-Life Lessons from a Family Business

A first-hand account of managing a family business through tax disputes, the 2008 financial crisis, and bankruptcy, with hard-won crisis management lessons.

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How to Start a Change? First Steps to Transforming Your Life

December 13, 2024

How to Start a Change? First Steps to Transforming Your Life

Explore the four seasonal stages of change from Carol McClelland's model and get practical coaching tips to start your own transformation with ease.

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I Feel Alone: Break the Cycle with Coaching

December 13, 2024

I Feel Alone: Break the Cycle with Coaching

Feeling lonely despite constant contact? Discover how active listening and professional coaching help you feel truly heard, understood, and valued.

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I’m Ready for 2025 Workshop: New Year Goals

December 13, 2024

I’m Ready for 2025 Workshop: New Year Goals

Join the I’m Ready for 2025 online group coaching workshop to review the past year, set inspiring New Year goals, and build a personal action plan for 2025.

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Connection: The Power That Shapes Your Life

December 13, 2024

Connection: The Power That Shapes Your Life

A reflection on the bonds we form from birth onward, why breaking some ties is painful but freeing, and how new connections help us grow toward our purpose.

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To Sleep or Not to Sleep: A Guide to Quality Sleep

November 20, 2024

To Sleep or Not to Sleep: A Guide to Quality Sleep

See how improving sleep can transform every area of your life wheel, and try practical tips for quality sleep with support from a health coach.

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Healthy Life Coaching: Small Habits, Lasting Change

October 16, 2024

Healthy Life Coaching: Small Habits, Lasting Change

Rate your energy, mindset, and self-compassion with a simple self-test, and see how a healthy life coach helps you build small habits for lasting change.

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Waytogo at the 2024 Pitch Challenge Go to Market Event

September 20, 2024

Waytogo at the 2024 Pitch Challenge Go to Market Event

Waytogo joined the 2024 Pitch Challenge Go to Market event, pitching our coaching platform to a jury of over 50 angel investors and business people.

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Organizing the Chaos: Get Your Life in Order, Part 1

August 30, 2024

Organizing the Chaos: Get Your Life in Order, Part 1

Learn how the cue-routine-reward habit loop shapes your day and how professional coaching can help you break old patterns and organize your life.

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Bravo! What Greek Appreciation Teaches Us About Coaching

August 12, 2024

Bravo! What Greek Appreciation Teaches Us About Coaching

A trip to Rhodes reveals how generously Greeks say "Bravo!" and why sincere appreciation is a powerful tool in coaching for feeling valued and understood.

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Do You Know Yourself? A Guide to Self-Awareness

August 2, 2024

Do You Know Yourself? A Guide to Self-Awareness

Explore self-awareness through coaching and Boyatzis' Helping People Change: the ideal self, the real self, others, and your personal vision statement.

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Remembering Your Inner Self: What Do You Really Want?

July 29, 2024

Remembering Your Inner Self: What Do You Really Want?

Life on autopilot can drown out your true desires. Learn to pause, ask yourself what you really want, and reconnect with your inner self through awareness.

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See Your Own Colors: The Power of Self-Appreciation

July 12, 2024

See Your Own Colors: The Power of Self-Appreciation

Feeling unseen at work? Discover how recognizing and appreciating your own efforts builds lasting motivation, with coaching support for self-awareness.

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Productivity Guide: Strategies, Tips, and Coaching

July 8, 2024

Productivity Guide: Strategies, Tips, and Coaching

Learn the fundamentals of productivity: types of efficiency, proven strategies like Lean and Kaizen, time management tips, and how coaching boosts performance.

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Time for Change: Breaking Old Patterns with Coaching

July 5, 2024

Time for Change: Breaking Old Patterns with Coaching

Why do we repeat the same patterns and expect different results? See how coaching sparks awareness, builds self-confidence, and makes lasting change possible.

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How to Decide If You Need Coaching Support

June 14, 2024

How to Decide If You Need Coaching Support

Feeling stuck or facing a turning point? Learn what professional coaching is and the clear signs that show you could benefit from coaching support.

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Where Is Your Power Spot? A Coaching Tool for Recharging

June 14, 2024

Where Is Your Power Spot? A Coaching Tool for Recharging

Discover the power spot concept in coaching: a real or imagined place where you feel strong and motivated, and learn how to use it to recharge.

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The Power of Non-Judgmental Listening in Coaching

June 10, 2024

The Power of Non-Judgmental Listening in Coaching

Explore how a coach's non-judgmental, fully present listening helps you feel truly understood and find your own answers in the coaching process.

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Your Priority Area: Put Yourself Back at the Center

June 7, 2024

Your Priority Area: Put Yourself Back at the Center

A coaching look at the priority area concept: why putting yourself at the center of your own priorities restores energy, focus, and motivation.

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Celebrate Yourself: A Simple Self-Appreciation Practice

May 10, 2024

Celebrate Yourself: A Simple Self-Appreciation Practice

A short guided practice in self-appreciation: pause, hug yourself, and celebrate your existence, your struggles, and the space you have created in life.

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Future You: Who Do You Dream Of Being?

May 3, 2024

Future You: Who Do You Dream Of Being?

A personal story of visualizing your future self: how one coach turned pre-training panic into success using this positive psychology technique.

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A To-Do List for Happiness: 10 Notes on Joy and Hope

March 26, 2024

A To-Do List for Happiness: 10 Notes on Joy and Hope

A heartfelt 10-item to-do list for happiness: embrace hope, laugh freely, love unconditionally, and take action toward a more joyful, positive life.

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Confident Communication and Personal Development

March 11, 2024

Confident Communication and Personal Development

Learn how self-confidence strengthens communication, relationships, and leadership, plus practical personal development methods to build lasting confidence.

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Foodworms and Awareness: A Journey of Inner Transformation

March 11, 2024

Foodworms and Awareness: A Journey of Inner Transformation

A personal story of how food worms in a pandemic pantry became a metaphor for overload, burnout, and the awareness that coaching can bring to life.

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Get to Know Yourself Through the Coaching Journey

February 27, 2024

Get to Know Yourself Through the Coaching Journey

Coaching is a journey of self-discovery: bold questions, courage to face yourself, and growing awareness that opens the door to new choices and real change.

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Improve Your Leadership Skills with Leadership Energies

February 27, 2024

Improve Your Leadership Skills with Leadership Energies

Explore the five leadership energies of C. Clinton Sidle's Leadership Wheel and learn how coaching helps you recognize and develop each one in yourself.

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My Coaching Journey: A Client Story by Abdullah Ertuğ

February 26, 2024

My Coaching Journey: A Client Story by Abdullah Ertuğ

Abdullah Ertuğ shares how coaching helped him understand his relationship with himself and move from drifting like a leaf to setting his own direction.

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Making the Invisible Visible on the Coaching Journey

February 26, 2024

Making the Invisible Visible on the Coaching Journey

Feeling invisible is painful yet common. Discover how coaching helps you recognize your strengths, see yourself clearly, and become visible to others.

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Coaching or Mentoring? A Guide to Choosing

February 23, 2024

Coaching or Mentoring? A Guide to Choosing

Learn the key differences between professional coaching and mentoring, when to seek each type of support, and how the two can work together for your growth.

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Coaching or Therapy? A Guide to Choosing

February 23, 2024

Coaching or Therapy? A Guide to Choosing

Learn when to choose professional coaching versus psychotherapy, which issues require a therapist, and how the two disciplines can work together.

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Professional Coaching: The Support You May Not Know You Need

February 23, 2024

Professional Coaching: The Support You May Not Know You Need

Professional coaching is not just for corporations. Learn how ethical, psychology-based coaching supports big decisions, life transitions, and personal growth.

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Unleash Your Potential with Coaching

February 23, 2024

Unleash Your Potential with Coaching

Feel you are using only a fraction of your capacity? See how a professional coaching process helps you unlock your potential and reach your goals.

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Rediscover Your Sources of Motivation

February 16, 2024

Rediscover Your Sources of Motivation

Lost your motivation? Learn how to decide whether to let a goal go or reignite your drive by revisiting the sources of motivation that once fueled you.

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Coaching Through Change: Safe Support for Transformation

February 14, 2024

Coaching Through Change: Safe Support for Transformation

Discover how a trusting coaching relationship creates the safe space you need to navigate change and move toward lasting, positive transformation.

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Find the Right Coach with a Free Chemistry Consultation

February 14, 2024

Find the Right Coach with a Free Chemistry Consultation

Discover how a free chemistry consultation helps you choose the right professional coach, build trust, and start your coaching journey with confidence.

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Step by Step to Your Dream Career with Professional Coaching

February 14, 2024

Step by Step to Your Dream Career with Professional Coaching

Discover how professional career coaching helps you set SMART goals aligned with your values and move toward your dream career with confidence.

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What is Coaching? A Guide to Professional Coaching

January 24, 2024

What is Coaching? A Guide to Professional Coaching

Learn what professional coaching is, how it differs from therapy and mentoring, and what to expect from chemistry and discovery sessions.

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