Coach Yourself: Make Real Changes in Your Life: It's Your Life, What Are You Going to Do with It?

Life coaching empowers people to make lasting, positive, inspirational change in their working life and life outside work. As such, coaching is a proven highly successful management technique. Many people seek coaches from within their organization or visit a professional life coach.But many more still feel uncomfortable asking another person to fulfill this role, or don't have access to the right kind of person, with the right kind of time, or simply don't have the disposable income to employ a professional. Imagine the cost effectiveness and convenience of having your life coach on tap 24/7. There whenever you need them.You can - it's you. Based on scientifically validated and tested psychological techniques, this highly practical book will teach you how to make lasting positive, inspirational change in your life. It will help you to identify goals and to reach them. You will learn how to be your own, solution-focused life coach.Contents include: Chapter one: Change happens, Why is it important to be able to change? Welcoming change Chapter two: BYO - can you be your own life coach? Chapter three: All change, What works and what doesn't Chapter four: Hopes and dreams, What do you really want? Chapter five: Whatever turns you on, Exploring motivation Chapter six: From negative to positive, Turning ANTs into PETs, Building a solid house of change Chapter seven: Solutions, solutions, solutions, Moving away from the problem towards a solution Chapter eight: Gathering strength, (Exploring motivation) Chapter nine: Staying on track Chapter ten: Do it with a friend, Co-coaching Chapter eleven: Success Chapter twelve: Coach yourself- a life-coaching program for change Further reading Cover......Page 1 Coach yourself......Page 2 Contents......Page 9 About the authors......Page 13 why is it important to be ableto change?......Page 16 Welcoming change......Page 17 Fear of change......Page 20 Making changes......Page 22 About the book......Page 24 can you be your own life coach?......Page 28 What is life coaching?......Page 29 The sporting model......Page 31 Coaching and therapy......Page 33 Who uses coaching?......Page 34 Where have the techniques in this book come from?......Page 37 Coaching is about change......Page 38 Can you coach yourself?......Page 44 what works and what doesn’t......Page 50 Change is difficult......Page 51 Thoughts, feelings, behaviour and situations......Page 53 Understanding change......Page 54 Model of change......Page 58 Costs and benefits......Page 60 Weighing up the costs......Page 66 So what does work?......Page 68 Ambivalence is normal......Page 73 what do you really want?......Page 78 You’ve got to have a dream......Page 79 Fuzzy vision......Page 80 Imagining the future......Page 82 Letter from the future......Page 84 Understanding values......Page 98 Angela’s story......Page 102 exploring motivation......Page 108 What do you really want?......Page 109 What motivates us to change?......Page 113 Setting goals......Page 120 Maintaining motivation......Page 126 turning ANTs into PETs......Page 130 Fear of failure......Page 131 Feelings are real, but they are not reality......Page 133 Negative self-talk and false assumptions– giving our power away......Page 134 Turning ANTs into PETs......Page 142 Disputing negative thoughts and replacing them with PETs......Page 152 Behavioural effectiveness inventory......Page 157 Building a solid House of Change......Page 158 solutions, solutions,solutions......Page 162 Moving away from the problem, towards a solution......Page 163 Miracles happen......Page 171 Life coaching focuses on constructing solutions, not deconstructing problems......Page 175 Exceptions......Page 177 gathering strength......Page 182 Working out where your resources lie......Page 183 Mindfulness......Page 190 Already halfway there?......Page 194 Give your project a name......Page 196 Give something back......Page 198 staying on track......Page 202 Take small steps......Page 203 Scaling......Page 205 GROW......Page 207 Anticipate problems......Page 215 co-coaching......Page 218 What is co-coaching?......Page 219 Should I co-coach?......Page 221 Listening is the key......Page 224 success......Page 228 Taking the credit for success......Page 229 Celebrating success......Page 233 Tracking your successes......Page 238 coach yourself: a life-coaching programme for change......Page 240 About the programme......Page 241 The Coach Yourself programme......Page 247 Further reading......Page 280 Life coaching empowers people to make lasting, positive, inspirational change in their working life and life outside work. As such, coaching is a proven highly successful management technique. Many people seek coaches from within their organisation or visit a professional life coach. But many more still feel uncomfortable asking another person to fulfil this role, or don't have access to the right kind of person, with the right kind of time, or simply don't have the disposable income to employ a professional. Imagine the cost effectiveness and convenience of having your life coach on tap 24/7. There whenever you need them. You can - it's you. Based on scientifically validated and tested psychological techniques, this highly practical book will teach you how to make lasting positive, inspirational change in your life. It will help you to identify goals and to reach them. You will learn how to be your own, solution-focussed life coach. Imagine waking up tomorrow morning and your life being exactly how you want it to be. This book will help you help yourself to find where this is - and get there. The only self-coaching book written by a business psychologist and based on scientifically tested techniques, it reveals the power of knowing how to coach yourself..... Using a systematic approach and clear, concise language, the authors chart a course for individual self-actualisation, demonstrating strategies for problem-solving, defining objectives and achieving them