Author name: Life Coach Ritu Singal

“All happy families are alike but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”    – Leo Tolstoy However, […]

Two major influences having a lasting impact on your life, your satisfaction and personal happiness, are: career and marriage. It’s quite commonsensical. In a typical career, you devote at least half of your waking hours, which bring a whole set of people around you who impact you in multifarious ways.

“Organic” is quite the buzzword today. And for all the right reasons! The word “organic” refers to the methods through which certain foods are produced without using any artificial chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically engineered organisms.

Being a life coach, I get to talk to many people having mental health problems. Such problems contribute to the issues which people bring to a life coach. The life coach needs to work on such issues to realize the most from the consultation process.

See how time just flies in no time! If for a company or organization, the work time lost may mean money lost but for people, personally, time lost may translate into an irreparable loss – of opportunities and potential achievements. Time isn’t just money, as a popular airlines’ tagline claims; rather, time is EVERYTHING! To know its truth, simply ask someone who has missed many golden opportunities in life and now regrets it.

We all start life with a family – of blood relatives, adopted parents or foster members. Our families are always there to support us in our need and difficulties. Having said that, family life isn’t always perfect as many issues can crop up.

Thanks to its extremely common prevalence, stress is quite a buzzword today, more so in the COVID- 19 scenario. With COVID-19 playing ducks and drakes with our lives in every way possible, the stress experienced by most of us has risen. It’s no surprise then that everyone talks of reducing stress for a more peaceful life.

Motivation is the inner driving force that propels us to do what we do in life. For example, hunger and safety are biological motives, which drive us to look for food and protection from dangers. Similarly, you have the motives of social affiliation, power and achievement which guide our behavior. In fact, without these motivators, our lives would be bereft of all that is beautiful, desirable and worthwhile to achieve.

Stress management training can help us re-calibrate our alarm system to help us adapt and achieve resilience. Without such resilience, we may always be on a high alert and with time, this long-standing stress can lead to health problems.