Written on Saturday, June 5th, 2010 at 9:18 pm by Christiane
Readers of “Learn to Love Your Job” qualify for a personal analysis to a special low price. Just email your answers to the questions and self-tests to the author, Life Coach and Psychologist Christiane Turnheim. You will get a comprehensive email analysis of your job satisfaction/ reasons for dissatisfaction and tips how to improve your situation.
According to a recent survey by the Conference Board research group, job satisfaction is down to a record low in the US. About 55 % of Americans are unhappy with their work.
If you are one of them, this eWorkbook will help you to identify strategies to get a satisfying job.. “Learn to Love your Job” is not just a book to read. You will get 2 in 1, an eBook and an eCourse, because “Learn to Love your Job” combines information with questions and tests about your own experiences and attitudes. After reading the eWorkbook and doing the exercises, you will have a better understanding of your needs and what you are expecting from a job – besides a good salary, of course. You will know what makes you happy at your workplace and what triggers unhappiness. Perhaps most importantly, you will also learn how to change and improve the problem areas at your workplace so that you can finally say: I Love my job!
What you will get:
- A set of 3 coaching sessions with each session lasting 45 – 60 minutes tailored to your specific needs and goals. The sessions ought to be completed across a 30-60 day period.Â
- Unlimited email contact between sessions for follow-up questions
- Weekly tracking of progress..
- Option to renew the set of 3 Sessions for 10% off.
- Option to continue with bi-weekly or once per month sessions.
Sessions are either by phone or, if you live in the Boston area, in person (on request). I coach in English or German.
Readers of “Learn to Love Your Job” qualify for a coaching session with a personal analysis of their job satisfaction to a special low price. Just email your answers to the questions and self-tests to the author, Life Coach and Psychologist Christiane Turnheim. As soon as your email is received, we will schedule a session (50 minutes, either phone call or at the Coach4Uoffice in Arlington, MA)
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As soon as I receive the payment confirmation, we will schedule the Coaching session. You will also receive a questionnaire by email. Please answer the questions as comprehensively as possible. Your answers will help me to prepare for our coaching sessions and as more as I know about your situation, as better I can coach you.
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• You can work with me at your own convenience.
• You decide the time and the pace of our coaching relationship.
• Some clients prefer the anonymity of email coaching.
• The coaching fees are lower, and therefore email coaching functions as low cost, low risk entry to coaching.
• There is always the possibility to switch to phone coaching or in-person sessions.
Get a full month of email coaching to a reduced price!
Benefits of email coaching compared to coaching on the phone or in person:
· You can work with me at your own convenience.
· You decide the time and the pace of our coaching relationship.
· Some clients prefer the anonymity of email coaching.
· The coaching fees are lower, and therefore email coaching functions as low cost, low risk entry to coaching.
There is always the possibility to switch to phone coaching or in-person sessions.
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Written on Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pm by Christiane
Though most of us live better than our parents and grandparents, we often forget to appreciate the abundance we enjoy.
That’s a pity because learning to be grateful for even small joys could improve many areas in our life. As it turns out, people who are grateful – not only to Thanksgiving, rather on a daily basis- sleep better, feel less stress and depression, have more energy, feel more alert, alive and positive. People with high blood pressure could even lower their blood pressure.
Grateful people focus more on the positive things in life and are less focused on pain and problems.
A few strategies help learning to become more aware of one’s own blessings:
- Start a gratitude journal and list daily or weekly the positive things that happened; whether you met an old friend, you cooked a delicious meal or the bus was on time……There is something to be grateful for on even the worst days.
- Â For the coming holidays: List all the people in your life who you take for granted. Then picture your life without these people. How would it be? What would you be missing? In your holiday cards to these people thank them for being in your life and for the difference they are making.
- Make a sign for your fridge or bathroom mirror: This week, I’m grateful for…..
I’m grateful for being healthy. I’m now cancer free for 10 years. In addition, I’m thankful for my family.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Christiane is a professional Life & Career Coach (coach4u.net). In addition, she teaches Psychology at a Community College near Boston.
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Written on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm by Christiane
If you are like me, then there is always too much to do and never enough time to do it all. In consequence, many of us are controlled by their daily “to do list”.
On a weekly basis, how much time do you have left for some fun in your life? If you don’t know for sure, maybe you will find the work-life balance calculator useful that I recently found on
cnn.com
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Written on Thursday, August 28th, 2008 at 5:20 pm by Christiane
Four days until Labor day and I’m affected by end of summer blues. The summer went by way too fast. It seems like we were either on the road or -in between trips- I was working in the garden, doing laundry etc to get ready for our next departure. First, we were for two weeks in Texas and then another two weeks on our annual family visit in Austria. If I had only two more weeks before school starts….
I know that I’m not the only one who wishes for a longer summer. Many people are returning this weekend from vacation and would love to have more time to get adjusted before their usual crazy-busy life starts again. A few tricks might help to ease the re-entry:
Don’t return on the last minute. Give yourself one extra day at home to relax from the travel itself, catch up on emails and do the laundry.
Back home, don’t look right away at the bills. Do pleasant things first, like calling your family and friends.
Keep the first day at the office meeting free and – if possible – keep the ‘out-of-office’ email for one more day. This buys you time to catch up on other backlogged work.
If you suffer from jet lag, don’t pack too much into the week. It takes time to adjust- in average, one time zone per day.
And if you are reading this while still on vacation: don’t forget to buy some food as mementos, like chocolate or spices. You will feel like on vacation when savoring these delicacies at home.
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Written on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am by Christiane
Do you belong to the lucky ones who still can put in overtime? Well, as it turns out now, it may be good for your paycheck but not as good for your psyche.
According to a recently published study by Norway researchers, people who put in more than 40 work hours per week have a higher risk for anxiety and depression.
The researchers compared about 9,000 people, who work 40 hours or less with 1,350, who worked regularly overtime. “Results: Overtime workers of both genders had significantly higher anxiety and depression levels and higher prevalences of anxiety and depressive disorders compared with those working normal hours.” (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,
http://www.joem.org/ )
According to the United States Department of Labor (http://www.bls.gov,
)
full time worker spend just under 43 hours at work per week. In 2006, about 18 % of full time workers put in more than 50 hours per week. Currently, about 3 % of the workforce has a part time job because they can’t find a full time job or their companies cut the work hours because of the economic downturn and about 5 % of the workforce holds more than one job.
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Written on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pm by Christiane
Stress is bad for you -there is nothing new about that. Everyone knows that stress could cause heart problems, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and headaches. Scientists at the Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia now discovered that stress may also play a role in obesity.
In an experiment, the researchers compared the feeding pattern of socially dominant female rhesus macaques and socially subordinate. The subordinates were exposed to more stress because rhesus macaques maintain group stability through continual harassment and threat of aggression against lower ranking group members.
During the study, the rhesus macaques were given access to a low fat diet and a high fat diet. The researchers found that socially subordinate females consumed significantly more of both the low-fat diet and the high-fat diet throughout a 24-hour period, while socially dominant females ate significantly less than subordinate animals and restricted their feedings to daytime hours.
Result: Overeating subordinate females gained weight. In addition, the researchers found an increased level of the hormone cortisol in their blood, which could set them on the track to diabetes.
In further studies, the researchers will attempt to determine whether there is a link between brain areas associated with reward and satisfaction and appetite signals. Hypothetically, it could be that we are kind of “programmed” to eat more when we are under psychological stress, and then, for a “stress eater” it will be much harder to stick to a diet.
Read more:
http://www.whsc.emory.edu/press_releases2.cfm?announcement_id_seq=14225
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Written on Monday, March 31st, 2008 at 4:56 pm by Christiane
Tomorrow is April Fool’s day and here I am with a fitting question: Is laughter really the best medicine?
Based only on my gut feeling, I would wholeheartedly say yes. I always feel so relaxed and stress free after a good laugh. This must be good for my body and health, don’t you think so?
Imagine my surprise when I discovered, researching the topic “laughter and health” that there are actually conflicting results with respect to the stress-reducing effect of laughter.
Laughter evolved to bring people together. It’s a social activity, and consequently we laugh much less when we are alone. The physiological effects are described as an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
According to a Swedish study, laughter activates the fight or flight system and thus increases the release of certain stress hormones. Another study points to a stress relieving effect of laughter, and consequently a reduction in stress hormones.
Studies about another supposed effect of laughter convey less confusing results: Laughter seems to make people less sensitive to pain.
One effect for sure is: We are in a better mood, if we have something to laugh about.
Therefore, any ideas for April fool’s day?
CNN lists today the 10 best pranks; among them all female employees told the boss confidentially that they are pregnant:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/03/31/fool.pranks.work/index.html
The top ranked prank on the list of the Museum of Hoaxes is a BBC TV story. In 1957, BBC announced that thanks to a mild winter Swiss farmers would have a record spaghetti harvest. The report showed footage of people pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. After the show, many people called BBC wanting to know where they could get a spaghetti tree. BBC’s advice: “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.” This story and 99 more pranks at:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/index
(Information about laughter is based on an article by Robert R. Provine, Ph.D., published in Psychology Today, 11/01/2000)
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