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Imagine you are a fitness trainer and you’re working with overweight people. And you started to experiment with paleo, intermittent fasting, and keto diets, and you see how much these types of diets helped you improve your health and looks. Cautiously, you start to recommend these diets to your customers, and you see that they lose weight and achieve dramatic relief from their chronic diseases. So you believe that diet is the main component of a healthy lifestyle, and you want to become a nutritional coach.

Counseling students are often required to write essays and research papers to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of a particular counseling issue. 

If you want to write a good research paper on counseling, there are two essential things to remember:

Rhetoric is the art of speaking or writing to the public - and not always friendly or familiar public. Rhetoric is the art of persuading others that our course of action is the correct one. The art is in knowing our audience, in shaping our voice, audible or written, so that our audience clearly understands our message and is persuaded - maybe not always persuaded to act, but at least persuaded to acknowledge that another point of view is possible. 

COVID-19 is almost certainly the major thing this year will be remembered for. It has such a massive impact on our lives, irrespective of the fact if you or your family get infected with it. For starters, it locked us all up at home. It stopped so many normal activities, like going to the park, chatting with friends over a cup of coffee in a cafe, or even going to school for god’s sake. 

In the previous post, we were talking about useful techniques that help you study quickly, efficiently, and painlessly. In particular, we have discussed switching between focused and diffused modes of attention, tackling procrastination by "just doing it" (starting on the task you want to avoid for 20-30 minutes and getting the job done), and we have talked about the importance of good sleep.

If you want to improve your high school and college grades, and to have more free time, you need to check out the free online course Learning How To Learn, where two professors from University of California San Diego will share with you scientific findings from psychology, cognitive sciences, neurophysiology and anatomy the pen out the best learning strategies. 

We all know these situations when you are burned out at school: too many classes to prepare for, too many exams, and then this stupid paper that is due tomorrow. You just have neither time nor desire to take care of it. It’s your least favorite subject and you know that this subject is just a filler, you will not need this knowledge in your profession. You decided to focus your efforts on subjects that really matter to your future and really interest you, you decided to prioritize.