Product Description

With this empowering manual, we can learn how to tune in to the conversations we have with ourselves, change the negatives into positives, and transform our lives using our " inner coach." By modifying our " self-talk, " we can learn to boost self-esteem, overcome self-limiting beliefs, encourage our best qualities, and attain the success and happiness we now only dream of. Recognizing your inner coach means separating out the unhelpful inner voices (" I need to be right, " " I' m not good enough, " " I' m afraid" ) and focusing on your inner champions (" I can handle this, " " It' s OK to make mistakes, " " I own my own life" ). With these strategies we can alter ingrained mental habits from the inside out, and build the ideal life we' ve always wanted.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #431397 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Synopsis
Realize who you can be with this no-nonsense guide. Four fast, effective and practical steps should help you get the most you can out of all areas of your life. There is advice on how to identify and focus on your strengths to reach your full potential and how to set and achieve goals.

About the Author
Pam Richardson is founder of the UK College of Life Coaching which is at the forefront of setting a code of practice across the international life coaching profession. Pam was instrumental in organizing the first International Coaching Summit in 2002, attended by over 120 international delegates. Pam is an established International Speaker, Trainer and Businesswoman. She is a member of the Barclay Corporate Consulting and Management Team and is also on the Board of Advisors of Here's Health magazine.

Customer Reviews

Good taster but priced as a main course
This book was used as course reading material for a Diploma in Coaching that I undertook 2 years ago. Maybe the fact that Pam was the Principal of the College influenced their choice?!

The book provides a good introduction to the themes and ideas behind Life Coaching and is very readable. In particular it introduces concepts of trust, values and the TGROW model in a way that is easily digested. However, the book is lightweight in both theory and application - and as such acts more as an appetiser to the subject of life coaching. Unfortunately it is priced as if it were offering more than this but a main meal it is most certainly not! It represents poor value for money when compared to books by John Whitmore and Julie Starr.

Keep that Band Wagon rolling
I too am amazed at the amount of positive reviews this feeble offering attracted - I can only guess that that they are written by fellow life coaches after recieving a free copy.

I think the author must have run pretty fast to catch up with this band wagon, but to be honest she needn't have bothered, it offers nothing new nor does it present it's old and tired message in a new or useable way.

It's been a long while since anybody wrote anything new about Life Coaching and this book certainly doesn't add anything useful to the huge amount of material already out there. Just the predictable superficial and shallow cliche glossed over and tarted up.

Eyebrow raising reviews
I sit here staring in disbelief at my monitor. The plethora of positive reviews for this book is as staggering as it is disproportionate.

If you are a buyer considering purchasing this book on the basis of the average star rating,

What really takes the biscuit is that very few of the reviews actually give an insight into the book and actual pragmatic experiences that were gleaned from it. If all of this isn't enough to make you raise the proverbial eyebrow, then it's either down to my cynicism or your gullibility.

Here are my insights: this is a book which is fabulously glossy with a highly presentable sense of style and colour. But beyond that it's pretty much useless. I agree with another (one of few) reviewerS who said that it seems to principally consist of naff positive thinking techniques and pseudoscientific diagrams/planners.

I'm not questioning Pam Richardson's capabilities as a life coach; there's every possibility that life coaching is very effective on a vis-a-vis consultation basis. But knowing the kind of people who will consider purchasing a book such as this, I feel I cannot consent to a recommendation. I think it's fairly expensive considering the canonical books and other up-and-comers such as Bate, Heppell and Beauchamp are all going for cheaper (and provide a better read).

If you're in the whole life coach business, then this book will probably be useful as a manual. If you're in the whole LIFE business, this book will leave you feeling very flat.