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Coaching: What if suddenly you are placed in an aquarium?

2023-08-21 | Author: Jose Almeida | Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes | Leave a Comment

coaching, evolve, motivation, life

Take a deep breath.

Once, twice, three times.

Feel yourself relax completely.

Now???

Imagine you suddenly woke up in an aquarium.

Feel yourself swimming round and round and round until you get dizzy from spinning around!

Try visiting the little ship your owners have put there.

Enjoy the bubbles bursting out of the shell.

Have you had fun?

Now imagine you???ve been there for a week.

Two, three???

One month, two months, three months???

A year, two years, three years???

How do you feel? Probably like the majority of the world???s population.

Due to circumstances or misfortune in their lives, most people live in a controlled universe where someone pours some food into their aquarium every month.

Few people take the reins of destiny into their own hands and choose … [ Read the rest ?? ] “Coaching: What if suddenly you are placed in an aquarium?”

In life, do you drive, or are you driven?

2023-05-30 | Author: Jose Almeida | Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes | Leave a Comment

life, goals, dreams

One of the things I work on most with teams, in terms of motivation, leadership, and performance, is precisely the phrase, “In Life, do you lead or are you led?”

Anyone who knows us and our work in this area knows that we like to provoke people to think when talking about motivation.

It’s different from the standard approach that we go there these days.

The way out of the inflation in which the world is plunged is for people to move from the passenger’s seat to the driver’s seat in their lives.

Whoever says in their lives means in their companies, society, or in short, in the world around them.

When we face difficult situations, we have two choices.

Either we sit back and wait for it to pass, … [ Read the rest ?? ] “In life, do you drive, or are you driven?”

Can you achieve what you want in life the first time?

2022-02-07 | Author: Jose Almeida | Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes | Leave a Comment

Achieve, Goals

One of the things that affect us the most is the states of mind that are sometimes not the best to face the situations or problems we have ahead.

Sometimes we get stuck at a certain point and can’t change our attitude towards something, thus leading the situation to a potential problem.

We seem to get stuck on a line of reasoning and can’t get out of it.

The problem is that, without mental flexibility, we are often limited to failure.

To get around these types of situations, I often use a few principles that have helped me throughout my life when I have problems or need to have greater mental flexibility.

Principle #1: The best thing about the past is that it’s behind us!

Or, as we say in … [ Read the rest ?? ] “Can you achieve what you want in life the first time?”

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