Product Description

Fiona Harrold's BE YOUR OWN LIFE COACH had great success with its powerfully inspiring message to take control of our lives and achieve our wildest dreams. Now, she shows us how in just 10 minutes each day we can accelerate towards attaining our goals. Follow her winning strategies and:

- Believe in yourself 100%
- Propel yourself into taking action
- Turn into a natural optimist
- Live a bigger, more interesting life

Fiona's is the winning formula to open the door to life's vast opportunities. Believe in yourself and others will too.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74239 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Daily Mail
'the country's top life coach'

Review
'With The 10-Minute Life Coach Fiona Harrold incontrovertibly establishes herself as the reigning queen of life coaching. For failsafe daily success and all you need to know about conquering the contemporary world, don't leave home without this book in your pocket.' (Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk )

'The 10-Minute Life Coach should be permanently in your bag for those panic "I need someone's help with this" moments in life. Brilliant.' (Susannah Osborne, Elle )

'Helps you focus on your goals - and get there fast' (Daily Telegraph )

'Fiona Harrold is not only one of the most dynamic and positive people you will ever meet, but also has the talent to make you feel the same way too. With The 10-Minute Life Coach, she's given her blueprint for success in easy-to-swallow, bite-size chunks that even the busiest and most stressed among us can follow.' (Robina Dam, Daily Mail )

'the country's top life coach' (Daily Mail )

'The UK's leading life coach and possibly the most positive person alive' (ES Magazine )

'London's leading life coach' (Evening Standard )

'The can-do woman for the New Establishment' (Scotland on Sunday )

'A confidante to the powerful....people flock to Fiona' (Sunday Mirror )

'The Queen Bee of British life coaching' (Daily Express )

'...this book should be on everyone's bookshelves... What makes Harrold's book so much better than other coaching books is that each task is simple and easy to maintain, which gives you confidence to keep going' (Be Unlimited )

'10 minutes of this each day might even fulfil Harrold's ambition to turn you into a natural optimist with a better life.' (Sunday Times Culture )

Evening Standard
'London's leading life coach'

Customer Reviews

The 10-Minute Life Coach
I have read the Amazon reviews of this book. And I have read the book. I conclude the reason for the 1 star vs. 5 stars differential is - where have you started your journey?

For me, I read the book at the very beginning of my journey. I took the instructions literally and spent 10-minutes and no more to work through the chapters - 1 by 1 - day by day. Also, I had no expectation of enlightenment or indeed anticipation of a eureka moment - much of a sceptic in my approach. But it did move me, steadily, from a very negative mental attitude, full of limiting beliefs, to a much more positive outlook. Change is hard work - there is absolute no short cut or way round this. By going slowly, understanding the change needed within yourself, builds to a greater understanding of what you need to do.

If you read this book midway or nearing the end of your journey then it may be covering old ground: I don't think you will gain anything from it. If you want overnight success then this book is not the one for you - but which book is?

I have read most of FH's books and they seem to mature as her experience grows and her learning and understanding of the subject deepens.

If this is your first self-help book - buy it. If it is your third or fourth (or more), and intrigued by celebrity Life Coach, go straight to The 7 Rules of Success.

Save your money
Anyone serious about understanding coaching and the benefits to be had from this should carefully avoid this book. It has an almost throwaway style which grates within the first few chapters, and fundamentally fails to get behind how people can change situations for the better. It tells you why, but it doesn't explain how. The tabloid style employed by the book really undervalues the skills of a true coach - it isn't something that you can do in 10 minutes, and as other books will tell you, there are no quick fixes to long term issues. Dire.

The Ultimate Guide to Just Doing It!
Until recently, I groaned if anyone mentioned self help books. However, the discovery that my happiest – and probably most successful – friend credited these books which much of the excellent advice that he gave me, I had a rethink. Clearly he was a believer - and it hadn’t done him any harm.

Having trawled through some of the top self help books on the market, I was disappointed. I found one so badly written that I gave up more less than half way through, another so unbearably cheesy that my arteries made me stop reading in protest. Stating the obvious and spouting meaningless jargon seemed to be the order of the day, and I was mystified as to how they had become top sellers.

However, Harrold’s 10 minute life coaching is not of this ilk. Well written, with a down to earth tone, the book sets out to do exactly what it says on the cover. Harrold has divided her book into sections that stand alone in addressing areas of self improvement. They don’t even need to be read in a particular order. Harrold takes a broad view, asking you to address your motives and examine your expectations before moving on to focus on your goals.

Each chapter ends with a series of questions which are very easy to relate to. Although some initially seemed irrelevant to me, I found myself having several “eureka!” moments after they had been swimming around my subconscious for a while. Asking the right questions is clearly one of Harrold’s talents.

This book is much more about action than talk, more concerned with positively moving forward than stopping for introspection. However large or seemingly small your goals might be, Harrold will have you pursuing them with gusto and probably wondering why you never did so before. The chapters on action and motivation are worth the cover price alone. It’s taken me some time to finish reading this book as I found myself abandoning it mid sentence to go and get things done. My existence as a dreamy couch potato has definitely been challenged!

Anyone who has found themselves 100% ready to “just do it” but mysteriously remains glued to the sofa - this is for you. Harrold is refreshing realistic, accepting that there is a time for inaction and that sometimes enthusiasm will wane. The book also talks about making achieving your goals easier, a concept which might seem lazy or unrealistic, but actually makes perfect sense.

This book is beautifully written and sensibly structured - and therefore could be used time and time again to refresh and rejuvenate aims and ideals. Harrold’s unique approach makes this an ideal book for anyone who wants to improve themselves, be it on a personal level or for a career agenda. If you’ve read a lot of books in this genre and found them unhelpful – finally, this is the one you’re looking for!