Amazon Category:  Self-Help Publisher: Lahaska Press ISBN-10:  0965053474 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 94 Copyright: Sep 1 2001 One of America's top professional coaches shares techniques you can use in your everyday life. Take a journey with Terri and transform your life forever. The idea for this book came from my work as a professional and personal coach. As I coached people of all ages, all backgrounds, and from all continents, I began to realize the powerful coaching tools I had been using were changing people’s lives as they learned to use these same tools for themselves. Later, through the coach training company that I founded, I learned that many of our students weren’t in the training program to be personal and professional coaches, they were there to use the tools to be more effective in their personal and professional lives. I began to imagine a world where each of us learned these coaching tools, these life tools, as we developed from childhood. I know we’d all be better children, friends, teachers, parents, community members, partners, lovers, business owners, employees … better people. Coaching tools are really people tools, and I think they need to be made available to the public rather than hidden in coach training programs. We all deserve to have the same skills that coaches have. I know, from personal experience, that coaches have more evolved lives and are typically happier with who they are and what they do. I know that many people who hire a coach gain this satisfaction with themselves as a benefit of the coaching experience. I began to ask myself, why not give these same coaching tools and gifts to readers who aren’t trained as coaches and who may not yet have had a journey with a coach? Why not make these powerful tools available to all to use? This book is my gift - to share coaching with the world. My desire is that we begin to share these skills with children from an early age, and for us, well, it is never too late to learn! Happy Coaching! Terri Levine Excerpt "As we become adults we simply forget what it’s like to be with toys and to use toys and to play games, and to laugh, and to smile, and to imagine. We’re so concerned about how other people will see us and perceive us and the right way of being, that we cover up our inner laughter, our inner joy, the silly things that we have enjoyed doing." " As you’ve learned more tools about living your life as a coach and helping other people on this planet enjoy their lives more because of your coaching tools, you may have wondered what it would be like to actually work in the profession of coaching. Certainly, that is an option you may choose, to get some professional training to become a coach and to work part-time, full-time or even develop or create a hobby around coaching. I may be a bit prejudiced, but I strongly believe that anyone who goes through coach training becomes not only a more evolved and better human being, but has a much more wonderfully rewarding life and can share new gifts and new experiences with others. So, I believe whether or not you decide ultimately to use coaching as a way to make your living, you will be a better parent, a better spouse, a better friend, a better partner, a better person, and be more effective in your current relationships, profession, or life, by having formal coach training. If you’re wondering, "Is coach training for me?” and "Is the coaching business for me?", I’d like to answer some of those questions here.

Publishers Review
This is an honest look at Coaching and the tools used in Coaching aimed at the everyday person. This is a "Coach in a book" for everybody. Jim Donovan Lahaska Press

Editor's Choice
I have read (and edited) self-help books before, but none of them match this book for readability and practical use. Terri's techniques work - I've even adopted some of them myself. Everyone, of every age, from troubled teenagers, to the workaholic spouse, and everyone in between should read this book. Donna Eliassen