Your pocket life coach : 10 minutes a day to transform your life and your work

An inspirational Pocket guide to Taking Charge of Your Life and Unlocking Your Full Potential It's time to spring clean your life. If you are tired of complaining that you are always tired, broke, restless, dissatisfied or bored, it's time to take action. Transforming your life is about accepting who you are, where you've been, what you've learnt and then taking responsibility for yourself, your dreams and desires. Carole Gaskell, one of the UK's leading Lifecoaches, takes you on a life-changing journey of self-discovery with practical exercises and essential advice on realising your full potential. With quick ten-minute exercises, quizzes and advice Carole Gaskell can help you: Achieve better time management Clarify your goals Recognise the obstacles that hold you back and overcome them Create an action plan for the year ahead Build your confidence Carole describes herself as "A creative communicator with a great interest in people, I have a focussed, results-orinetated approach. I believe in getting to the core of a person, or business issue, whilst maintaining purpose and truth."

Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world's museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world, and how they wish to see themselves. Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they draw attention to themselves. Come across them in the world' s museums and you get a strange shock of recognition, rather like glimpsing your own reflection. For in picturing themselves artists reveal something far deeper than their own physical looks: the truth about how they hope to be viewed by the world, and how they wish to see themselves. In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about the artist's innermost sense of self – as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our behaviour in real life. In this beautifully written and lavishly illustrated book, Laura Cumming, art critic of the Observer, investigates the drama of the self-portrait, from Durer, Rembrandt and Velazquez to Munch, Picasso, Warhol and the present day. She considers how and why self-portraits look as they do and what they reveal about the artist' s innermost sense of self – as well as the curious ways in which they may imitate our behaviour in real life. Drawing on art, literature, history, philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an entirely fresh way, Cumming offers a riveting insight into the intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and the lives of those who practise it. A work of remarkable depth, scope and power, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about the strange dichotomy between the innermost self and the self we choose to present for posterity – our face to the world. Drawing on art, literature, history, philosophy and biography to examine the creative process in an entirely fresh way, Cumming offers a riveting insight into the intimate truths and elaborate fictions of self-portraiture and the lives of those who practise it. A work of remarkable depth, scope and power, this is a book for anyone who has ever wondered about the strange dichotomy between the innermost self and the self we choose to present for posterity – our face to the world.

You can transform your life step-by-step in just ten minutes a day. Carole Gaskell, a leading Lifecoach, takes the reader on a life-changing journey of self-discovery with practical exercises and essential advice on realising full potential You can transform your life step by step in just 10 minutes a day with this powerfull little coaching book ful of great questions, fun quizzes, practical tips, and doable assignments.