” Failure will never overwhelm me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” Og Mandino When people learn something, the temptation to learn quickly is stimulated by the small successes obtained at the beginning. Therefore, I have expressed the idea somewhat unusually from several points of view to stimulate the reader’s logical mind. So,… Read More What NOT to Do to Be Successful Right Off the Bat
The 3rd of July is the international “Compliment Your Mirror” Day. Motto: “What is it about me that attracts people?” I am sure, without a doubt, that any person has asked this question at least once in their life. Well, I just had an insight based on a dream. Honestly, I don’t believe in paying… Read More Imagined Mirrors of the Absolute
The services market intended for the NGO segment has started to manifest itself in a way that is not negligible. In this regard, it is essential to consider communicating with specific audiences with tricky issues about which one doesn’t find blunt information, as described below. I have recently started to suggest to you what to avoid… Read More 7 Successful Questions to Ask in order to Obtain Sponsorships
The NGOs in Romania have started to grow in the last 10 years, and the services market intended for this segment has started to manifest itself in a way that is not negligible. In this regard, it is essential to consider communicating with specific audiences with … tricky issues, to which one rarely finds blunt… Read More What to Avoid When Looking for Sponsorship
A person with a well-cared-for personal brand knows they can trust themselves and will ask for the same thing from others. The same goes for those who refer to persuasion as an art; trust that the items set at the beginning of the communication will be accomplished. A few important things should be noted here.… Read More What Does Trust Mean?
Questions to ask to identify advantages: 1. What does this behavior bring to me? 2. What is essential for me about this behavior? 3. What do I get by doing this? 4. What is the positive intention behind this behavior? 5. And if I am to benefit from it, what else is brought to my… Read More Questions to Ask in order to Assess Certain Behavior
It is said that, before starting to contribute, it is essential that you build something for yourself as if satisfying the need to contribute competes against one’s own needs. For those who haven’t had a representation of the balance between satisfying other people’s needs and their own needs, or a balance to wholly and entirely… Read More The Contribution, Between Generosity and Saviour Complex
Let’s say that you are the client of a renowned coaching school with tens and hundreds of clients, and its presentation blew you away. You don’t really know what to expect. You want to grow personally and give these professionals a chance to put you on the right track to success. Congratulations! Here are 10… Read More 10 Things That the Coaching Trainer Hasn’t Told You
Let’s say that you are the client of a renowned coach who enjoys confidence and acknowledgment and has a very cool web page. You don’t really know what to expect. You want to grow personally and give a chance to this professional to fulfill your psychological and emotional needs involved in the process. Congratulations! Here… Read More 10 Things That an Experienced Coach Hasn’t Told You
I wonder if the saying that it’s more valuable to know how to keep quiet than to speak is always valid… Some people speak from experience, while others don’t say precisely due to their expertise. Man’s lips are a strong trap against him, and he gets stuck in it with the words spoken by… Read More When to Keep Quiet and When to Speak…
What I wish you, contemporary woman, celebrated today: Stop and look in the mirror, into your eyes, stop the train of your thoughts, and only feel what your eyes tell you. If your eyes are conveying a positive emotion, then this is what others will also perceive. If your eyes don’t get a positive emotion,… Read More What I Wish You, Discerning Woman
The terminology “Schema” comes from schema-focused therapy and refers to the maladaptive schemas taxonomy developed by Jeffrey Young, Ph.D., and his collaborators since the ’80s. It is the problem-oriented component of the field, using psychometric questionnaires developed and tested by scientists to evaluate which are the schemas and modes which pathologically influence the emotions,… Read More What is Schema Dynamics Programming
What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness? Efficiency is putting the ladder on the wall and climbing it down the other side of the wall as fast as possible. Effectiveness is knowing on which wall to put the ladder. Some people learn in life, either by experience or modeling, to cherish hard work. While… Read More Some Differences Between Working Hard and Working SMART
Psychologists have worked for more than 100 years to find explanations for how the human mind and personality work to heal the problems deep inside us. Personal development fields such as neuro-linguistic programming and transactional analysis have developed effective and efficient solutions for a successful breakthrough. However, clinical psychology and the development of excellence have… Read More Schema Dynamics Programming with Marcus Victor Grant
In the past years, putting together the increase of internet bandwidth supporting high definition instant live video streaming, the increasing capacities of server streaming for thousands of people, together the price falling for hardware technology, internet access (even on mobile devices), and data centers services, more and more learning companies develop business models centered on… Read More 13 Hints – How to Separate Value from Mind Bugging In Webinars
Here I gave you some examples of items. I have proven how they DON’T work here. This article is part IV from a series of English articles about survey-type research focusing on quantitative measures. Please also consider this list of articles in Romanian about research. To attain the same goal in the second context, let’s… Read More Rich Item Conceptualization.
This article is a follow-up to this one, and it refers to the questions presented as an example here: Let’s take it to step by step. First of all, methodologically. The first question uses a scale with an even number, which requires the responder to mark only one answer. The second item presents an odd… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part III
Once defined an audience, step into their shoes. Create items in such a manner that your responder knows what to answer very clearly. Use words (s)he will understand. For example, suppose you want to test someone’s knowledge of pricing in marketing. In that case, it’s preferable to ask: “How do you decide the price of… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part II
Motto: “How often do you prefer not to think hard about the questions you ask? a) Always b) In Most Cases c) Sometimes d) Soft.” There’s a way of doing the right things in the right way. Fortunately, I’ve been to a good school for formulating items in questionnaire design, and I must tell you… Read More The Questionnaire Design for Surveys, part I
With the courtesy of John David Hoag, author of the great article, I invite you to read it here. Copyright (C) John David Hoag. Republished with permission. I would like to specify that in practice, I have also successfully used this technique with myself and several clients to change other personality patterns and metaprograms. Furthermore,… Read More Procedure for Changing the Personality Patterns
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