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I've been thinking a lot lately about what are the most important qualities for self-employed people. Why is it that some people, once they've tried the freelance life and encountered their first difficulties, decide not to continue and go back to being an employee,...

January 17th marks exactly one year since I officially registered my activity as a freelancer and created the Augam brand. If someone had told me 5 years ago that this would be the direction my career would take, I would have found it hard to believe. Especially since...

When you work for yourself, selling your services is an integral part of the activity. I know from my own experience and from working with clients that this is one of the biggest blocks for self-starters and not only for them. I always thought that sales wasn't really...

Although freelance life has many pluses, one of the most common minuses I hear other colleagues talk about is instability. In terms of number of clients, income, workload. In the months when there is enough activity, when the bank account is replenished with income,...

For the last half an hour I've been browsing Facebook, checking other social networks instead of working, e.g. writing this article. Does this situation look familiar? I remember very well from my university days, when it was exam time, the house was perfectly tidy,...

Some time ago, I attended a webinar by my very favourite coaching professional and bestselling author on coaching, where I heard a very interesting analogy that I still remember today.  Imagine you are a company. Every company has shareholders. In the beginning, each...

More recently, I have discovered the fun and joy of hiking alone in the mountains. I never thought I would dare, let alone enjoy it so much 🙂 without telling anyone, I planned my first rather ambitious solo hike - about 12-14 km, at least 1000 m of ascent, about 4...

All coaching professionals want to broadcast to the world how good a tool it is, how many useful insights can be gained in a session and how it can transform lives. There is a lot of truth in that, BUT! In my experience, in order to deliver on the above promises,...

It happens that almost all my articles are about my experiences, about real events and their connection to coaching or personal development in general. I find that examples from everyday life help me to understand things better than long chapters in a textbook. A few...

Although the world seems to be emerging from the grip of the pandemic and life is getting back on track, one trend is not slowing down: many people have had time to think about their priorities and aspirations during the long months of quarantine and are still...

When was the last time you allowed yourself a pause? In a conversation, a task, a day, a week, a year, a life...? You might answer "today on my lunch break, while I was eating, browsing on my phone and I was taking a pause". Really? After all, when it's hard to talk...

No, this is not a travel article. It's about setting goals and achieving them. Why mountains? Read on to find out. Those who are not indifferent to mountains will understand me - when you see a point in front of you that you want to reach, because from there you have...

I like to write in circumstances where the thoughts or events that led to the idea for the article are still fresh 🙂  As always, these are just my subjective opinions and insights. So, the situation. I have an issue that requires outside help - a coaching...

Overwhelmed.. that is the word that comes to mind when I start to write this article. Let’s face it, in a world where being positive has become almost like a cult, it becomes almost a burden to even think in a different way. Yesterday I found myself in a state of mind...

These days when it is the time of so-called “the great resignation” and shortage of talents, people are changing jobs more than ever. It is no longer surprising when an employee quits after 6 months or a year and moves on with his or her career. While there are...

Sitting in a very busy Frankfurt airport, having more than 4 hours to kill before my next flight, somehow I started to think about the NLP method of chunking up and chunking down. Seems unrelated from the first glance, but I will try to explain how it came to my mind....

Ikigai is a concept that comes from Japan and means “reason for being”.  In this article I will not go deep into the philosophical background of it, my goal is to share more of a Westernised version of it and how it can help each of you to find your career path. The...

At first glance, this time I am sharing something not so related to coaching or human resources - work from home with pets. But are these really the topics that are so unrelated? Let’s continue and we will see. It has already been almost two years since the majority...

This time in my article I want to share four ideas that I personally found very interesting in the book called “Social panoramas” by Lucas Derks. In this book it is revealed that everyone of us has an unconscious landscape of things and people around us. Without even...

I am pretty sure that a lot of you have heard the word “coaching” at least once or have seen it somewhere online. From my own experience of working in a corporate environment, I can say that coaching at some point was a bit of a mythical term when people who have...

Yesterday was a happy day for me - I passed my first Aikido exam (5th Kyu). Of course, in this world it's only a baby step, but for me it's an achievement. How it all began My acquaintance with martial arts started in the autumn of 2017 when I joined the Goju Ryu...

If we want something to be working smoothly, we must ensure a good maintenance. Whether it’s a car, a piece of clothing or even processes in a company. Here are a few tips of how to keep up to date your HR processes.  Remember when was the last time when you were a...

Hi there and thank you for reading! The end of January 2022 is the time when my project Augam is born. But it has been a long road to get there. Like many people around the world, the pandemic and the quarantine gave me the opportunity to listen to myself more and to...