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Influencing Factors of the Subjective Perception of the Expatriation Experience

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Leaving the home country also means leaving behind the comfort zone, the personal support network, and the familiar routines in order to blend in to another – often significantly different – socio-economic-cultural environment with new people, new customs, and very often even a new language amongst others.

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Inflexibility vs. Adaptability

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By establishing clear goals such as mastering a new language, building cross-cultural communication skills, and expanding their global network, they can better prepare mentally and emotionally for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. John Murray Folke, C., Carpenter, S. Scheffer, M., Chapin, T., & Rockström, J.

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Gratitude and the Brain

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These regions are part of the neural networks that fire when we socialize or experience pleasure. Additionally, they connect to the brain’s mu-opioid networks, which are activated during close interpersonal touch and relief from pain (Henning et al. repeatedly practice the new response so it becomes ingrained (Emmons, 2010).

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Coaching a Young Graduate for Job Search Case Study

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Early Gen Z, those born between 1996 and 2010, are now entering the job market, making up about one-fourth of the world population (employa.com, 2024). He already had contacts within his network and was able to reach out to them with specific questions, topics, and a profile to test.

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Neuroplasticity and Coaching: A Healthcare Leader’s Challenge

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Neurons can connect with thousands of other neurons, creating networks that can contain all the information associated with learning a new role. By creating new synapses, new information can be connected into an already existing network of relevant, stored information from our previous experience (Sultan & Day,2011).”These

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3 Surprising Foundations of Motivation | by Delaney Tosh CPCC, PCC

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When you are hyper-aroused (in a stress response state), your brain is distracted and less able to draw on the neural networks that help us be productive. When we focus on a project or task that demands a lot of our attention, it commands more of our neural networks and consumes more glucose (our brain's fuel). Mindfulness meditation.

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The SEEDING

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How can you use your existing experience, accomplishments, and network to build this kind of life? The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level – Gay Hendricks – May 2010. D efine & D esign. An exciting concept to describe this is “ikigai”. and the problems you will solve. References.