Client reviews from by David Wright Nearly half of U.S. workers in APA’s 2026 Work in America survey reported feeling tense or stressed during the workday. A useful concept in the same survey—psychological capital—offers a practical framework for navigating uncertainty without pretending...
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What You Look At Can Shape What You Choose: A Smarter Way to Design Better Decisions
by David Wright New eye-tracking research suggests that visual attention can change which features of an option come to mind, helping explain why the things we look at longer can become more attractive. For coaching, the useful lesson is not “stare at what you want.”...
A 20-Minute Reset May Lower Acute Stress – But That Is Not the Same as Building Resilience
by David Wright A new 2026 study found a sharp within-session drop in perceived stress after brief meditation, while trait resilience did not change. What the researchers observed The study involved first- and second-semester nursing students at a U.S. health sciences...
Stop Fighting the Clock: What New Research Says About Motivation Across the Day
by David Wright A 2026 iScience study suggests that motivation for everyday activities changes across the day and differs across people. The coaching lesson is not to chase a universal “best time” - it is to design routines around your own patterns. Motivation is not...
Small Goals, Less Friction: What a 2026 Randomized Study Says About Micro-Goals and Follow-Through
by David Wright A September 2026 randomized study found that a small, frequent physical-activity goal led participants to exercise more overall than a standard less-frequent goal over three weeks. Ease of adherence helped explain the difference. KEY TAKEAWAYThe...
Burnout Is Personal: What New Research Suggests About Tailoring Small Interventions
by David Wright People experiencing burnout are frequently given broad advice: rest more, set boundaries, exercise, meditate, say no, take time off. Some of that advice may be useful, but the same intervention will not address the same mechanism for every person. A...
Can Professional Coaching Reduce Burnout? What a New 2026 Pilot Study Suggests – and What It Does Not Prove
by David Wright A September 2026 pilot study in academic physicians found improvements in self-compassion, work exhaustion, interpersonal disengagement, and impostor feelings after a structured coaching program, but the sample was very small and the study was not a...
Better Goals Need Better Feedback: What New 2026 Research Says About Goal Setting, Fairness, and Performance
By David Wright Photo: Clay Banks / Unsplash. Two 2026 studies add useful nuance to goal setting: feedback can strengthen the effect of goals, and goals that move too far from prior performance may undermine performance when they feel unfair or disconnected from...
Hypnosis Is a Tool, Not a Magic Trick: What New 2026 Research Says About Pain, Anxiety, and Expectation
By David Wright Photo: Artem Kovalev / Unsplash. The most useful question is not “Does hypnosis work?” in the abstract. It is “For which goal, compared with what, for whom, and as part of what broader plan?” A more useful way to read hypnosis research Hypnosis is...
After-Hours Messages Are Still Work: What New Research Says About Digital Demands and Recovery
By David Wright Photo: Salah Ait Mokhtar / Unsplash. New 2026 research on after-hours digital demands found associations with job stress, burnout, and lower quality of life. The study involved police personnel and was cross-sectional, so the most useful lesson is not...
Mindset Matters—but It Isn’t Magic: New Research Tests Whether a ‘Stress-Is-Enhancing’ Mindset Improves Daily Performance
By David Wright Photo: Elisa Ventur / Unsplash. “Think positive” is not a performance strategy. But the way people interpret stress may still influence how they function under pressure. A newly published 2026 study examined whether a stress-is-enhancing mindset—the...
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