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What defines resilience?
To me, “Resilience is about getting back up every time we fall. We can get back up because of our strong will. Strong will to live and strong will to thrive!” One of my new-generation-leader clients showed up with his interesting topic for a discussion

What’s self-awareness? And how’s it important?
“Mindfulness is a prerequisite of self-awareness. And self-awareness is a prerequisite of self-awakening.” One of my young executive clients showed up with his interesting topic for a discussion before our

How to practice Mindfulness Meditation
“The distinction between ‘Mindfulness meditation’ and ‘Calmness meditation’ is… in Mindfulness meditation, we’re the observer of our mind. While, in Calmness meditation, we’re the observer of the object.” One of my new-generation-leader clients

Emotional Intelligence Elements
“The prerequisite of emotional intelligence is mindfulness. You cannot have emotional intelligence without being mindful of your thinking, feeling and doing.” One of my new-generation-leader clients showed up with his leadership topic for discussion

The differences between leader and manager
“A Manager’s role is transactional; while, a Leader’s role is transformational.” One of my new-generation-leader clients showed up with his leadership question: “What are the differences between

Traits of bad leadership
Degree of happiness or suffering of their people can be a good measurement of how good or bad their leaders are. One of my young-generation-leader clients showed up with his leadership question: “What are the traits of bad leadership?”

What are the skills needed for leadership?
What are the skills needed for leadership? There are overwhelming skills needed for leadership. However, for a condensed version, there are only 5 core skills; that is, coaching, facilitating, mentoring, strategizing and diplomatizing. One of my new-generation

What is a strategic leadership?
What is a strategic leadership? It is a leadership style that masters these 6 skills; i.e., anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, align, and learn.” – Atip Muangsuwan, The Best Coach International
One of my leadership clients showed up with

What is a definition of transformational leadership?
“A definition of transformational leadership is… leadership that focuses on listening, asking, collaborating, inspiring and leading by example.” – Atip Muangsuwan, The Best Coach International

How to make decisions that make all stakeholders happy
“Stakeholder engagement is a never-ending process. We have to continually earn stakeholders’ confidence. It’s a relationship.” — Wouter Vermeulen, Corporate Responsibility Director, Coca-Cola Europe.

How to stop procrastinating and start living a full life
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain,

Miracle of Coaching II
“If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle.” – Morgan Freeman, American actor, director, producer and narrator. One of my female executive clients came to me with her coaching topic: “How can I get promoted when my boss doesn’t even like me?”

Miracle of Coaching
“Miracle is about… making the impossible possible.” – Atip Muangsuwan, The Best Coach International One of my executive clients who is a team leader of sales executives came to me with her coaching topic: “How can I regain my self-confidence and

How to hit your sales target in no time.
“Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her to solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.” – Brian Tracy One of my leader clients who works in a Non-Governmental Organization came to me with his coaching topic:

How to regain your mental strength to conquer any obstacles in your work and life.
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” One of my leader clients came up with

How to get promoted at work more quickly
“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.” Mireille Guiliano, French-American author and former corporate executive. One of my executive

How to say “no” to your big boss
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the UK. One of my executive clients showed up in our coaching session with a coaching topic: “How to say no to a minister

How to handle criticism at work
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.” Said Aristotle. One of my executive clients showed up in our coaching session with a coaching topic: “How to handle criticism at work.” His problem was… he had received

How to make your boss and your subordinates understand and accept you just the way you are!
Stephen Covey wrote in his book, ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ that, “Seek first to

Leaders need to identify and develop their successors.
John C. Maxwell said, “There is no success without a successor.” Myles Munroe also said, “Leadership success is measured by the success of

Coaching can create ripple effect to humanity
Dalai Lama once said, “Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching

Indecisiveness causing anxiety, stress and affecting your progress towards success
Jim Rohn, a self-made millionaire, author, motivational speaker and Anthony Robbins’s mentor once said, “You cannot make progress without

Make tough decision with clarity and confidence
“I help leaders, executives, business owners and celebrities make tough decisions better and faster with more clarity and confidence.” There was an

Dance with our clients and explore their true values
Who would know that… starting from a common coaching topic like… “how to deal with stress” could transform into big decision-making and career

Your past doesn’t equal your future
Your past doesn’t equal your future unless you decide to live there. There was a business-owner client who told me about his past failures with respect to his business failure leading to a big debt

One main cause of your suffering
What is the one main cause of your suffering? From coaching many clients on both business and life dilemmas, I’ve found out that one main cause of their suffering, misery or pain is derived from…

Key Success Factors
How to be successful very quickly? How to reach your goals in no time? The secret I’ve discovered is… we have to identify what the key success factors of the goals or things we want to accomplish are! Then,

A Means to an End
What distinguishes between happy and unhappy people? What I’ve simply noticed is that… “Happy people have fewer conditions to be happy than unhappy people.” For example, some unhappy

The 2 Types of Meditation!
Most people are generally confused about these 2 types of meditation. In my previous article ‘Emotional Needs are the answer!’, I wrote that… “My client would practise calmness meditation and

Emotional Needs are the answer!
If you have conflicting values, how can you still make clear and confident decisions? In my previous article ‘Life Compass’, I mentioned that… “We make decisions based on our topmost values.

Life Compass
What is your life compass? The ships in the ocean need the compass to navigate them to the right direction and reach their right destinations. You need the compass when you do your hiking

Life and Death Decision
Have you ever heard that, “Your decision can determine between your life and death”? This is the power of your decision. It can move the mountains, change the courses of your life and determine

The Law of Success, Lord Buddha’s version
You may have read the law of success by Napoleon Hill. But have you ever known about the law of success which was taught more than 2,500 years ago by Lord Buddha? The law of success by

How to motivate people fully
Why is being able to motivate people so important for being executives and leaders? This is because executives and leaders usually don’t do the work by themselves. They get their work

Visualization, another Powerful Coaching Tool
Visualization is the preview of life’s coming attractions! Why and how do I use it in my coaching sessions? Why do I use it Visualization is the act

Role Play, a Powerful Coaching Tool
What is a role play? What are the benefits of it in coaching? Role play is a technique used in human relations training and psychotherapy in which participants act out various social