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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154814203321

Autore

Grant Anthony

Titolo

Coach yourself : make real change in your life / / Anthony Grant, Jane Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education Limited, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-273-74217-5

1-281-15712-0

9786611157128

1-4058-9398-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 274 p.) : ill

Disciplina

158.1

Soggetti

Self-management (Psychology)

Self-actualization (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"It's your life - what are you going to do with it?"--title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- About the authors -- Chapter one -- change happens -- why is it important to be ableto change? -- Welcoming change -- Fear of change -- Making changes -- About the book -- Chapter two -- BYO -- can you be your own life coach? -- What is life coaching? -- The sporting model -- Coaching and therapy -- Who uses coaching? -- Where have the techniques in this book come from? -- Coaching is about change -- Can you coach yourself? -- Chapter three -- all change -- what works and what doesn't -- Change is difficult -- Thoughts, feelings, behaviour and situations -- Understanding change -- Model of change -- Costs and benefits -- Weighing up the costs -- So what does work? -- Ambivalence is normal -- Chapter four -- hopes and dreams -- what do you really want? -- You've got to have a dream -- Fuzzy vision -- Imagining the future -- Letter from the future -- Understanding values -- Angela's story -- Chapter five -- whatever turns you on -- exploring motivation -- What do you really want? -- What motivates us to change? -- Setting goals -- Maintaining motivation -- Chapter six -- from negative topositive -- turning ANTs into PETs -- Fear of failure -- Feelings are real, but they are not reality



-- Negative self-talk and false assumptions- giving our power away -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Turning ANTs into PETs -- Disputing negative thoughts and replacing them with PETs -- Behavioural effectiveness inventory -- Building a solid House of Change -- Chapter seven -- solutions, solutions,solutions -- Moving away from the problem, towards a solution -- Miracles happen -- Life coaching focuses on constructing solutions, not deconstructing problems -- Exceptions -- Chapter eight -- gathering strength -- Working out where your resources lie -- Mindfulness -- Already halfway there? -- Give your project a name -- Give something back.

Chapter nine -- staying on track -- Take small steps -- Scaling -- GROW -- Anticipate problems -- Chapter ten -- do it with a friend -- co-coaching -- What is co-coaching? -- Should I co-coach? -- Listening is the key -- Chapter eleven -- success -- Taking the credit for success -- Celebrating success -- Tracking your successes -- Chapter twelve -- coach yourself: a life-coaching programme for change -- About the programme -- How do we create change? -- The Coach Yourself programme -- Further reading.

Sommario/riassunto

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.....