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Imagine the difference in your life if you had evidence-based tools to enhance personal and interpersonal well-being and life satisfaction.
Now an innovative self-help guide is available to provide you with those research-based tools. With inspirational stories, practical applications, illustrative cartoons, and instructive discussion questions, this easy-to-read text will lead you to discover and fine-tune self-motivating and interpersonal skills to benefit both your life and that of your family, friends, and acquaintances.
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We are Connected Electronically but Can Still Feel Alone
Through social media, email, Skype, instant messaging, and other electronic forums people are “connected” to more people these days than ever before. Yet increasing numbers of people feel alone. Backstabbing, demeaning, and bullying others have become increasingly commonplace, leading to more interpersonal conflict than cooperation. Indeed, the suicide rate among young people has skyrocketed since the advent of all those superficial communication devices. People need to learn how to “connect” with others in more meaningful and collaborative ways, both in person and online.
Families have Less Influence
Before the 21st century, children learned a lot about life from family discussions. In those “good-old days” family members usually had dinner together, and were not distracted by television and social-media devices. The only source of entertainment at mealtime was family conversation.
What about today? Does the typical family today have fewer one-to-one conversations with their children than did earlier generations? Even when families eat together most of them are glued to their electronic devices. This decrease in interfamilial teaching/learning conversation can be profoundly damaging to individuals and their culture.
Children once learned shared beliefs and values from family members. These days the power of those lessons has been diminished substantially by the variety of distractions—and the speed of our lives—that limit opportunities for one-on-one instructive communication between children and their families.
Relationships at Work are More Superficial
The same distractions that hinder our interpersonal learning at home occur in the workplace. People skim emails and rarely take the time to empathize with those with whom they share their workplace every workday. The result: Many people are not enjoying their work life as much as they could, and productivity is often less than optimal.
What Can You Do to Reverse This Trend?
Good news: A new resource is available to enhance your interpersonal relations at home, at work, at school, and throughout your community. This new book, “Fifty Lessons to Enrich Your Life,” is an effective LifeCOACH Guide. The author—Dr. E. Scott Geller—reveals secrets for beneficial self-awareness, interpersonal acumen, and continuous improvement. This self-help guide, as reflected by its subtitle, “Proven Principles from Psychological Science” is profound because it is not based on common sense or pop psychology.
Discover the Secrets to Life-Changing Insights
From teaching and researching the science of human experience for more than 50 years, the author of this LifeCOACH guide has identified 50 evidence-based life lessons capable of enriching the quality of human life when applied appropriately and routinely. Because each life lesson stands alone as a teachable moment, you can readily fit valuable learning into your busy schedule. No need to read many pages in one sitting. With two pages per life lesson, you can learn at your own self-pace. But beware: The engaging learning process for each life lesson will inspire you to progress to the next life lesson. It’s a page turner!
This LifeCOACH Guide was Created to:
- Inspire quality teaching/learning conversations among diverse groups of individuals of all ages—anyone interested in applying psychological science to enrich personal and interpersonal well-being;
- Understand, appreciate, and enrich the human dynamics of everyday life. The focus is on circumstances that involve human behavior, ranging from educational settings and the workplace to the home—all life situations we encounter daily;
- Engage students, employees, and family members in teaching/learning conversations about the psychology of health, safety, and relationship-building;
- Enhance human well-being;
- Reduce interpersonal conflict and bullying; and
- Improve work productivity, environmental conservation, and life satisfaction.
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Who is E. Scott Geller?
E. Scott Geller, Ph.D has been a university teacher, researcher, and scholar for 50 years. His title at Virginia Tech is Alumni Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is also Senior Partner of Safety Performance Solutions and Co-Founder of GellerAC4P, Inc.—the producer of this LifeCOACH Guide. Dr. Geller’s TEDX talk on YouTube has almost seven million views. https://youtu.be/7sxpKhIbr0E
Why a LifeCOACH Guide?
This workbook/manual is referred to as a LifeCOACH Guide. The psychological science revealed and explicated here connects directly to everyday life—the science of human experience. Interpersonal coaching is one sure way to apply these life lessons for the benefit of human dynamics and well-being. Appropriate applications of feedback, praise, observational learning, systems thinking, empathy, empowerment, and social-influence techniques can continuously improve the behavior of oneself and others.
Several life lessons reflect the behavioral-science principles of positive versus negative reinforcement, observational learning and behavior-based feedback. Other life lessons are founded on humanism, including empathy, interdependence, systems thinking, and self-transcendence. A number of other life lessons are derived from social psychology, including six principles of social influence, the dynamics of group decision-making, and critical distinctions between discriminating and stereotyping. Domains of psychology such as sensation and perception, personality, health and stress, learning, and motivation are the foundation of other life lessons.
The letters of COACH are enlightening and beneficial. Interpersonal coaching begins with Caring. This is not a “gotcha” process with a focus on finding faults or mistakes in other people. It is an actively-caring-for-people (AC4P) process. People acknowledge and support the desirable behavior of others and strategically point out opportunities for continuous improvement.
“When you know I care, you’ll care what I know. In fact, I care so much I’m willing to observe your behavior—with your permission of course—and offer useful behavior-focused feedback.” This quotation reflects the critical Observation phase of AC4P coaching. Sometimes a behavioral checklist is used to look for certain desirable and undesirable behaviors, as well as the environmental determinants of those observed behaviors.
Whether checklist-assisted or not, the objective is to Analyze the ongoing interaction of specific desirable and undesirable behaviors with the environmental conditions that facilitate or inhibit those behaviors. These observations and interpretations are shared with the individual observed in the next step of AC4P coaching—Communication. Behavior can only improve with behavior-based feedback, and this occurs during the Communication phase of AC4P coaching.
Appreciation and acceptance of supportive and corrective feedback depend on appropriate delivery of the behavioral feedback. Various life lessons in this LifeCOACH Guide explain and illustrate how to deliver supportive and corrective feedback. This is essential, but there is more. Several life lessons shed light on the human dynamics that influence the perception and appreciation of environmental determinants of behavior; how supportive and corrective feedback should be received; and how subsequent, decision-making can be biased, as well as improved.
If the person observed perceives the Communication phase to be constructive, the last letter of COACH reflects the outcome—Help. An effective behavior-based AC4P coaching process Helps people improve at a targeted task, whether the focus is health, safety, security, production, instruction, research, scholarship, or athletics.
Note that the AC4P coaching process benefits both the observer and the person observed. The individual observed learns certain behaviors to continue and/or discontinue. But the act of pinpointing those desired and undesired behaviors instructs and motivates related behavior of the AC4P coach. When AC4P coaches hold people they observe accountable to do their best, the coaches in turn develop self-motivation and self-persuasion to follow their own advice (Life Lessons 17, 18, & 19).
When more people coach each other effectively, the potential to achieve an organizational, educational, sports, or family mission increases dramatically. When the mission and behavioral objectives target human health, safety, welfare and/or security, the process supports the achievement of an AC4P culture. Indeed, cultivating an AC4P brother’s/sister’s keeper culture depends on increasing the quantity and improving the quality of interpersonal behavioral coaching for the safety, health, success, security, and well-being of oneself and others.
How to Use this LifeCOACH Guide
This LifeCOACH Guide was designed to promote conversation, learning, and beneficial applications. An optimal way to use this Guide: A group leader reads the page following the amusing illustration for a particular life lesson and then facilitates a discussion about that life lesson. Discussion questions are presented with each illustration, but additional questions will likely evolve from the group discussion. The size of the discussion group can vary from two to 30 or more.
Constructive teaching/learning conversations about the life lessons can occur between two individuals or among the participants in a school or university classroom, or at a corporate workshop led by a teacher or discussion facilitator. Particular life lessons can inspire critical conversation and collaborative teaching and learning in corporate workshops designed to enhance job satisfaction, interdependent teamwork, and/or occupational health and safety.
The presentation format of the 50 life lessons is relevant for participants of any educational level—from elementary school to college and beyond. The illustrations and the related discussion questions can be understood by anyone who can read, verbalize opinions, and answer questions. Of course, the teaching/learning success of interpersonal communication about a life lesson will depend on the skill of a teacher or group facilitator at making the life-lesson discussions relevant for the participant(s).
Imagine the LifeCOACH Guide located in the family room of your home—readily available to attract the attention of visitors and activate a friendly teaching/learning conversation. This would be an optimal way to teach fundamental principles of psychology and inspire practical applications for enhancing human well-being and life satisfaction.
The Language of Applied Behavioral Science (ABS)
Some language of psychologists is unique and quite different from that used in everyday discourse. Plus, behavioral scientists commonly use terminology that is uncommon in other domains of psychological science. Moreover, the author and his students have coined certain AC4P terms and derived distinct ways of defining some related psychological concepts.
Thus, a Glossary of Key Terms used in this LifeCOACH Guide is provided with definitions from an applied behavioral science (ABS) and AC4P framework (i.e., humanistic behaviorism). Even readers who have had one or more courses in psychology would benefit from reviewing the terms and definitions in the Glossary. Many terms are defined with a behavioral and/or an AC4P focus, and this often results in a distinction from the more common usage of a term. For example, operational (i.e., behavioral or observable) definitions are offered whenever relevant and appropriate.
What You Gain When You Order Your Own LifeCOACH Guide:
- 50 Life Lessons to practice with family, friends, and colleagues;
- Relevant research references and stimulating discussion questions;
- Positive psychology insight from 50 years of dedicated research, teaching, and scholarship; and
- An engaging and educational personal and interpersonal life experience!
Fifty Lessons to Enrich Your Life: Proven Principles from Psychological Science
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