behavior change

The Cost is Worth It: Crushing Threat Stressor Procrastination

The Cost is Worth It: Crushing Threat Stressor Procrastination

When people talk about procrastination, it’s almost always about tasks they put off doing. The tasks can be related to challenge stressors–too much to do in too little time–or hindrance stressors–barriers that block you from carrying out the job. The solutions to these stressors can be effective and may even energize you. The solutions renew your sense of control, mastery, and productivity.

But threat stressors are a different story.

Threat stressors take a heavy toll on your social and emotional health, and even on your body. You can disarm the myth that keeps so many people locked into the procrastination related to threat stressors and correct the misconceptions about how to tackle that procrastination.



The Truth About New Year, New You That Even Experts Get Wrong

The Truth About New Year, New You That Even Experts Get Wrong

The problem is that a bunch of tips and tricks–no matter how clever, novel, or seemingly easy they are to implement–don’t work in the long run because of one simple fact: Humans are complicated.

Social science research from the last 30-40 years shows you need to consider both what’s going on inside of you and the many factors outside of yourself if you want to make positive, lasting change.

We created the iPhone for career transformation

We created the iPhone for career transformation

What Makes Be Your Own Best Coach Like the iPhone?

Be Your Own Best Coach marries two powerful disciplines: solution-focused practice and behavior design, and unifies them through our Y-PET framework for change.

We help you put it all into action through our Solution-Focused StoryCrafting method, which connects up all the moving parts of a self-driven change process and makes good things happen.

Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em: The people in our lives

Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em: The people in our lives

Normal--and even healthy--relationships are a dance from connection to distance and back. From connection to conflict and back. From rupture to repair. In fact, the best relationships not only are best at connecting, but they are best at biting and licking--or in human terms, recovering from conflict.

The Power of Self-Talk

The Power of Self-Talk

In this episode, we discuss the power of self-talk with one of the Be Your Own Best Coach alumni, Mark Hiemenz.

Mark helps individuals, teams, and organizations be their best through self-awareness and relationship-building education, resources, and tools to move them clearly forward with shared goals and objectives, clear communications, and a unified path toward success.