How to Train Your Mind and Build Mental Strength Daily

September 23, 2021 by Liz Carter

How to Train Your Mind and Build Mental Strength

Building mental muscle is the key to feeling your best and reaching your greatest potential. Just like it takes time and practice to become physically strong, building mental strength takes dedication as well. Here are five things you can start doing now to make yourself mentally stronger:

Don’t Let Your Emotions Control You

Putting a name to your feelings will decrease their intensity. Whether you’re feeling sad, anxious, angry, or scared, you should acknowledge it. Pay attention to the way those emotions can affect your choices. When you’re feeling anxious you may be less inclined to take risks. When you’re excited you may be more impulsive. [Read more…]

The Benefits of Creating a Personal Routine

September 16, 2021 by Liz Carter

Why Create a Routine?

Establishing a positive daily routine is an investment in yourself. Following a daily routine can help you establish priorities, limit procrastination, keep track of goals, and even make you healthier. It lowers your reliance on willpower and motivation habits are actions that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought. [Read more…]

Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

September 9, 2021 by Liz Carter

Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

Written by Mark Teahan. This article was originally published in Issue 13 of Personal Trainer Magazine. You can download the newest issue and all past issues here.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) did no less than 3 membership surveys in 2020, mining for information from Coaches during the pandemic. It became a common response within a chaotic period, everyone wanted to know how others were shifting around during the first waves of COVID. Still, there was a fair amount of Coach training discussed, mostly for how the industry would rise to meet the challenges of coaching during a time when we needed it most but were least able to provide it. [Read more…]

Benefits of Using a Sleep Journal

September 2, 2021 by Liz Carter

Benefits of Using a Sleep Journal

Whether it’s not getting enough sleep, getting poor-quality sleep, or issues falling asleep, we’re undeniably a sleep-challenged nation.

While you might have heard the classic tips for promoting better sleep habits, like avoiding eating late at night, turning off your screens, and developing a nighttime routine, you’re probably not familiar with a tool commonly used by sleep science coaches and experts: a sleep journal. Just as it sounds, a sleep journal is a sleep log of your sleep-related behaviors and patterns. [Read more…]

What is the Difference between a Wellness Coach and a Health Coach?

August 25, 2021 by Liz Carter

What is the Difference between a Wellness Coach and a Health Coach?

Ever look at the job titles of each of these and wonder how they differ? Don’t health coaches and wellness coach do the same things and have the same scope? There’s great variability between job titles – even if the scope is the same or has overlap with another professional title.

What is a wellness coach?

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Strategies for Staying Healthy and Keeping Your Immune System Strong

August 17, 2021 by Liz Carter

Strategies for Staying Healthy and Keeping Your Immune System Strong

The immune system is influenced by a number of factors, and we need a well-structured plan when trying to strengthen it. In order to boost the immune system, we need to exercise regularly, eat a well-balanced diet, manage stress, get enough sleep, and reduce exposure to environmental pollutants and products with harsh ingredients. Remember, a healthy lifestyle is equal to strong immunity. [Read more…]

How to Improve Communication With Your Coaching Team

August 13, 2021 by Liz Carter

Improving Communication With Your Team

How your team interacts with clients can make all the difference in whether your business grows. And helping your team realize how their communication skills affect clients, even if it’s just via nonverbal cues, can enhance their ability to understand the needs of your clients.

Tody we are sharing some of our favorite strategies for opening the lines of communication and foster an environment of collaboration. [Read more…]

Helping Your Clients Beat the End of Summer Blues

August 9, 2021 by Liz Carter

Helping Your Clients Beat the End of Summer Blues

It’s fair to say that as we head into the end of summer, a good number of us feel a sense of longing for summer to stay.

Getting ready to say goodbye to the summer season can bring on uneasy feelings as we inch towards colder weather and shorter days. This may be especially true due to continued COVID-19 stress and uncertainty.

Before summer is over, make a list of what is already going well and what you love the most about the season.

What are the best ways to keep in touch with friends as life gets busier?

How can you bring some of those same scents of summer into your home?

What self-care routine will you continue to do daily that served you well all summer long? Take time before the end of the season to savor your summer memories — it’ll make the transition easier when the time comes. [Read more…]

Employee Approved Corporate Wellness Initiatives

August 6, 2021 by Liz Carter

Corporate Wellness Program Ideas

The key to having a successful corporate wellness program at work is encouraging overall wellbeing while still keeping it fun. If you can’t get your team engaged then your corporate wellness program ideas will quickly lose steam. So make your initiatives fun, try new ideas and see what your team values the most.

Fitness Programs and Activities

Employees who sit long hours in an office need time to exercise or move around. Some companies provide on-site gym services and fitness classes to help their employees stay fit. Some even have after-work group exercise classes, swimming pools, and sports grounds for their staff. [Read more…]

What is the Objective of Corporate Wellness Programs?

August 4, 2021 by Liz Carter

What is the Objective of Corporate Wellness Programs?

The early focus of corporate or company wellness programs was on weight loss, disease management for high-risk employees, and/or meeting rudimentary criteria to receive discounts on health insurance premiums.

This means one of the primary goals was to control employer healthcare costs – not necessarily to bolster the health, productivity, and happiness of the labor pool.

Physical health and incentivizing programs to reduce costs to employers and employees are valid and valuable objectives. However, if these are the only objectives of a corporate wellness program, it is unlikely the larger goal of improving the well-being of employees will be met over the long term.

The return on investment to the employer will not be significant. Wellness is a puzzle. All the pieces must be included or the picture won’t make sense.

Fortunately, corporate wellness is evolving and incorporating more comprehensive and robust program models with a holistic approach to personal health. Physical health is still important, but corporate wellness is beginning to understand the relationship between physical health, mental health, stress management, sleep, education, and workspace structures.

As more and more employers and organizations recognize the need to support the “whole person” and emphasize the value of all interrelated facets of wellness, the ROI grows along with the health of their staff. [Read more…]

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