Jill Douka
MBA, ACC
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Uniqueness Coach, International Speaker, Author & Founder of Uniqueness Development Group Expert
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- Life Coaching
- Career Focus
- Uniqueness Coach,International Speaker, Author & Founder of Uniqueness Development Group
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- ICA, ICF, HCA, EBC
Jill Douka MBA, ACC is a Life Coach, international speaker and author.
She is Greek Canadian and has recruited, trained, and coached thousands of individuals in Europe, USA and Asia. She is considered to be one of the most acclaimed coaches in Greece by the press and is one of the first European women invited to speak in a TEDx event in Asia. Founder of www.uniquenessdevelopmentgroup.com she supports people to unlock their strengths, energy and goals and have a great life. Believing that entrepreneurship is the road to development, she organizes inspirational events on this matter and was chosen as a mentor at the European Business Mentors network.
Jill holds an MBA from ALBA and is an International Coach Academy graduate. She has studied Human Resources in Cornell University and holds a Masters degree in Cultural Management and Political Science from Universite Paris Dauphine. As an artist, she is a graduate of Contemporary Dance in Merce Cunningham Foundation in New York. She proudly supports children in need and her ideal world is full of people who live by their Uniqueness, are healthy and happy.
Favorite moto: What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
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Rage: Get to know it and …leave it behind!
Yes! It is totally unfair…everybody tells you so. It is insane. It wasn’t your fault and you can’t understand why this is happening to you. Either someone talked to you badly or you were a victim of fraud, either a minor or major problem, the result is always the same: you feel angry! Our anger, no matter how hard we try to control it, is there. How many times have you seen someone and feel uncomfortable about his sitting next to you or get upset with his rude manner? How many times have you talked on the phone realizing that your interlocutor is simmering with anger?
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What’s the plan?
Begin with the end in mind. Stephen R. Covey, Leadership Authority What is the first thing we make sure we do, once we get on a taxi? Naturally, we tell the driver where we want to go (after we greet him of course)! Would you ever take a taxi without having a specific destination in mind, in order to get off randomly somewhere you would consider…interesting? Or would you take along with you random passers and go…wherever they wanted to go?
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I can’t get no… Sleep!
Life coach, Jill Douka, explains how what we “feed” our brain, can help you get better quality sleep. “I am a wreck…I sleep 4-5 hours a day!” Elena said to me, during our coaching session. “OK, do you want to tell me, what is it that you do before going to sleep?” “Before going to sleep? I watch TV. In fact sometimes I fall asleep in front of the television. It helps me sleep.” Have you ever wondered why is it that we read fairy tales to our children, before going to sleep?r
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Paradisians Learn a Lesson
Once upon a time, there was a place called Paradise. Paradise was a blessed place. Blessed with a great mild climate and a wonderful sun, blessed with superb islands, beaches and a lengthy coastline, blessed with a great variety of mountains, hills and valleys. There were plenty of natural resources and living in paradise was a great honor. Paradisians, the habitants of Paradise, were in absolute bliss, inviting people from all over the world to spend their vacations in bliss as well.
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Three ways to cope with people that make you go crazy
We all have people around us who can make us lose control. How can we treat them? Yes, they live around us. Whether they are people from your close environment or people from you deal with rarely, you are getting crazy from the first moment you are discussing with them. You cannot communicate with them. You just cannot! There is a solution, take a look… Get yourself out of the equation
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I love… Me!
Life coach, Jill Douka explains why in order to have a great life, it is essential to love ourselves and how to achieve it. Who is the most important person in the world for you? This is one of the first questions I ask in coaching sessions or in our workshops.
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The Rock in Your Life
Before a couple of months I passed through a state of shock. I had a health problem that was acting up. I left behind a relationship that I believed had a future. My Greece (which I had made a conscious decision to live in, 5 years previously) was going bankrupt. Daily. I felt like all the stable factors in my life had become… unstable. At the same time, our company, was rapidly developing. As a life coach, its part of my job to support and inspire people, especially during this ‘special’ period, many individuals and companies come to me with this aim in mind.
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Taking 100% Responsibility For Your Life
You are stuck in the road, on your way to a very important meeting. In front of you, there is an elderly man trying to start the engine of his limousine-like car. You are wondering: a) What have I done to deserve this? b) Until what age are old people allowed to drive? c) Where is the police when we need it? d) What can I do to resolve this and get to the meeting on time? e) Let’s press the horn to wake him up.
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Can you?
An immigrant from Ethiopia is a source of inspiration to all of us. Mawi Asgedom was born in Ethiopia, which was a war zone at the time. He spent the first couple of years of his life without his father, who went to Sudan to a refugee collection center. After a while, Mawi joined his father along with his mother and brothers. In order to reach Sudan they crossed the country on foot. They remained at the refugee camp for 3 years. When he was 7 years’ old, he reached America. His family had no money. They could not speak English.
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Your beautiful flaws!
‘We all have flaws. Nobody is perfect.’
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3 Tips for a Better Life
Our life has become more demanding. You split yourself between work, house and family. In coaching we learn that it is very important to keep yourself in balance so that you can enjoy life. But how can we achieve this? *Exercise
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How reliable are you?
“Endangered species: people who mean what they say and then do what they say”, was what a friend of mine posted as his facebook status a few days ago. In fact, if you think about it, how many times do we do 100% what we say?
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Jill Douka MBA, ACC is a Life Coach, international speaker and author.
She is Greek Canadian and has recruited, trained, and coached thousands of individuals in Europe, USA and Asia. She is considered to be one of the most acclaimed coaches in Greece by the press and is one of the first European women invited to speak in a TEDx event in Asia. Founder of www.uniquenessdevelopmentgroup.com she supports people to unlock their strengths, energy and goals and have a great life. Believing that entrepreneurship is the road to development, she organizes inspirational events on this matter and was chosen as a mentor at the European Business Mentors network.