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The Importance of Self-Regulation Scientific findings over the past decades have demonstrated that self-regulation plays a very significant role in many different areas of people’s lives, such as job searching, performance improvement, leadership, and rapid acquisition of new knowledge and skills (Zimmerman & Schunk, 2011). Specifically, self-regulation is the cornerstone for individuals in personal development,

What is Procrastination? Procrastination is the intentional delay of an action that is related to achieving specific goals. As a behavior, it is quite familiar, as most people have postponed a task, even if only for a few minutes, at some point in their lives. The scientific community also describes it as a failure of

Coaching and psychotherapy share many common elements in terms of theory and their application in practice, which makes it difficult to distinguish between their practical differences (Cox, Bachkirova, & Clutterbuck, 2010). Historically, psychotherapy developed as a practice traditionally aimed at “healing” the individual. It focuses on restoring mental functioning, liberating one from the bonds of

The Differentiation from ‘Pop’ Coaching The term “evidence-based coaching” was coined by psychologist Anthony Grant in 2003. Grant’s aim was to differentiate coaching with a scientific foundation from coaching that has emerged as a byproduct of the “pop” self-improvement culture, which lacks a scientific basis. Evidence-based coaching practice is derived from systemic business consulting as