Coach Yourself to Success : 101 Tips from a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life [Paperback]

Talane Miedaner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 2000

"In just six months I have gained tremendous clarity about how to care for my needs, live my values, and create my ideal life."
--Pat Thomas, vice president, product delivery, AT&T

"This book is your blueprint for the life you've always dreamed about having."
--Sandy Vilas, president, Coach University

Olympic athletes have a coach. CEOs use the services of an executive coach. Can you imagine how much more productive and successful you would be if you had your own life coach? You don't have to anymore! In Coach Yourself to Success, Talane Miedaner, one of the most widely recognized personal coaches in the world, provides you with the latest technology for achieving success and attracting everything you have always wanted.

Using her experience as a professional coach for hundreds of Fortune 500 clients and her own corporate background, Talane shares 101 of the most powerful and effective coaching tips and presents them in an easy-to-follow, 10-part program. Coach Yourself to Success will help you gain insight into what is truly important in your life and give you the edge to take yourself from ordinary to extraordinary.

Editorial Reviews

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I have gained tremendous clarity about how to care for my needs, live my values, and create my ideal life. -- Pat Thomas, Vice President, Product Delivery, AT&T

This book is your blueprint for the life you've always dreamed about having. -- Sandy Vilas, President, Coach University

From the Back Cover

0lympic athletes have a coach. CEOs use the services of an executive coach. Can you imagine how much more productive and successful you would be if you had your own life coach? Well, you don't have to imagine anymore. In this book, one of the most widely recognized personal coaches in the world, Talane Miedaner, provides you with the latest technology for achieving success and attracting everything you have always wanted.

Using the practical wisdom drawn from her experience as a professional coach for hundreds of Fortune 500 clients and her own corporate background, Talane shares 101 of the most powerful and effective coaching tips and presents them in an easy-to-follow, ten-part program.

Coach Yourself to Success will help you gain insight into what is truly important in your life and give you the edge to take yourself from ordinary to extraordinary.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809225360
• ISBN-13: 978-0809225361
• ASIN: 0809225379
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Although you probably know me as a writer, my true strength is life coaching. I'm a Master Certified Coach, the highest designation you can receive in the coaching profession, and have coached thousands of people to reach their goals and dreams. I'm also an adjunct professor teaching a course on Authentic Leadership for Georgetown University's Institute of Transformational Leadership and Coaching in Washington, DC. I absolutely love what I do and work with clients around the world from business leaders, senior executives to government officials. I am the founder of LifeCoach.com and TheCoachingDirectory.com and am committed to making coaching accessible to all those who are interested in trying it out as it is a life-changing experience. I've married an Englishman and have moved to Devon, England and we now have two young daughters and live by the seaside in a beautiful Victorian house.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

119 of 142 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Less than I hoped for... April 1, 2001

By Joe Spencer

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I have read many, many self help books over the past decade. Some of these books are classics, others are not. This book (for me at least) falls in the "not classic" category: just too much fluff for me.

Normally I would have just donated this book to a local charity and moved on to another book. However, I feel that I must add my comments about this book, to add more balance to the other reviews found here.

Many of Talane's tips are common sense, and would be helpful to someone just starting out on the road to self improvement. Some of the tips are just plain wacky. For example, in tip 20: Feng Shui Your Home and Office, we are invited to make sure the front entrance door of our house never opens to face a bathroom. If it does, we are advised to keep the door closed. Great tip, for modesty reasons as well as for Feng Shui. We also learn that we should "never design or buy a house with a bathroom in the center of the house; it will drain out all the energy." She doesn't know why she does these things, she does just does these things because they "work".

One of the other tips that struck me as strange was the advice to identify our needs. As an example, she mentiones that some people are compulsive shoppers because they want to feel needed. If this is our need, we are invited to ask people to let us know how cherished we are for 4 to 6 weeks... that should be enough to stop the compulsive shopping. Much of the book seemed a bit too simplistic for me.

One other personal issue: each tip is prefaced with a quote from some great thinkers... however, some are dialog clips from TV episodes like Rossanne and Mamma's Family. Those types of quotes are not untelling of the level of content you will find in this book.

Like I said, if this is the first self improvement book you purchase, you will find a fairly shallow treatment of many wide ranging topics... most of which should help you begin your self improvement path. Personally, I could not force myself to finish the book: I only made it to page 174.

If you do purchase this book, don't stop with this one, keep going on to deeper, more comprehensive works.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for getting yourself moving in life September 6, 2001

By J. Whitford TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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I wish I could give more than five stars. I have a library of over 2,000 self help books, and this is by far one of the best I have read AND taken action on. Usually I read a book and put it on the shelf. This book prompts you to take action. The author walks you through getting rid of energy drains in your life, setting up personal boundaries that may have slipped, and getting your health, finances, relationships - your entire life back in order and in balance. Even if you just read the book and take one action, you will change your life for the better. Give it a try. There is no filler or fluff here - just concise, constructive actions to take to improve your life.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book...amazing results...amazingly easy to start.... March 7, 2004

By M. R.

Format:Paperback

What can I say? Except that this book is the hands down best thing I have bought for myself...ever! The advice is extremely pragmatic and you'll find yourself doing things to improve your life before you even finish the first chapter. The seemingly small tasks you'll undertake usuing this book will yield BIG results -- everything from getting out of debt to communicating more effectively to looking better. She does a great job of explaining how you can do some elements of the program that seem expensive and indulgent in low-cost ways. **NOTE: The majority of the tips do not require any money at all.

I am living proof that using Talane's methods work. Before this book, I was hopelessly in debt, making less than I deserved, looking and feeling downtrodden and depressed. Six months later, my credit is great, debts manageable, I make more money, enjoy my job more, I have hired an image consultant, I get manicures every week, and things just keep getting better.

You don't have to do every step in order or do all 101 at once. And you don't have to be rich. Talane helps you build a strong foundation and then take steps to reach your potential. I can't explain it, but you will find yourself taking better care of yourself than you ever thought possible...and getting out of debt, making more money, with more confidence, looking better, in a cleaner home, more relaxed, and enjoying your life more than ever before.

If you can't afford to hire Talane herself to coach you, get this book. She has been very generous with sharing her coaching techniques in this wonderful book.