52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! Bite-Size Coaching for Success-Minded People [Paperback]

Jeanne Sharbuno (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2002

An innovative approach to coaching, this book is concise, highly practical, and easy to implement. As a sharpshooter focuses on their target, each of the "52 ways" hit with laser-like focus on things that people can work on each day and intergrate into their lives. Readers will immediately see benefits from putting the ideas in this book to work. Some of the benefits include: 1) just-in-time coaching, 2) easily-implemented ideas, tips and action steps, 3) techniques that are effective, practical and proven, 4) ways to improve one's own destiny, and 5) approaches than can be done on a "do-it-yourself" basis as opposed to hiring a coach. Recognizing that we live in a fast-paced environment that demands instant results, the book was designed to provide bite-sized portions that can render immedate success.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...a mother lode of practical tips, anecdotes, and real life examples for anyone who's committed to improving themselves." -- Carol A. Hacker, Carol A. Hacker & Associates; Author of How to Compete in the War for Talent: A Guide to Hiring the Best

"...year's worth of weekly tips, acton steps, great quotes, and ways to focus on how to achieve personal success." -- Robin A. Sheerer, Author of No More Blue Mondays: Four Keys to Finding Fulfillment at Work

"Powerful! ...great ideas for living your dreams and really enjoying life rather than just reacting to it." -- David Greenberg, Author of ThanK God It's Monday! Designing a Life You Love Beyond the Weekend

About the Author

Jeanne Sharbuno is a career facilitator, workshop leader, and corporate consultant with a 20-year background in sales, makrting, and management. She founded Step Up! Success in 1997 and conducts workshops on career issues, personal effectiveness, goal setting, strategic planning, and train-the-coach programs. She lists among her clients: AT&T, Brinks, Xerox, Unity Church, and companies large and small, as well as professional associations. She has been awarded the Distinguished PCC (Professional Certified Coach) designation from the International Coach Federation. Jeanne resides in Atlanta.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: DC Press (June 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932021019
• ISBN-13: 978-1932021011
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,187,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Readers won't wait 52 weeks to finish this book!, September 24, 2002

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Bill Lampton, Ph.D. "Speech Coach for Champions" (Gainesville, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! Bite-Size Coaching for Success-Minded People (Paperback)

I predict that very few readers will read this book as the format intended-one brief segment per week for fifty-two weeks. Why? Because the book is too interesting, relevant, and helpful. Once you read the first "simple bite-size coaching" item, you won't be content to put the book aside. Most readers will read the entire book the first week, and then start reading again.

Ms. Sharbuno writes with exceptional clarity, wit, organization, and insight into everyday concerns and challenges. Additionally, she has pulled together fifty-two marvelous quotations to segue into each short essay.

She explains her term "success from the inside out." To attain success, she advises, we cannot rely on outer circumstances. Instead, success depends more upon how we use our inner resources, often in the face of a threatening environment.

The book is highly contemporary, in matters such as providing guidance for launching a new career after a job loss. Readers will listen to her because she experienced that adversity herself, and transitioned happily into a new arena.

Likewise, when she talks about making your dreams come true, she explains how she achieved her fantasy of becoming a published writer.

Ms. Sharbuno counsels us on other important topics. Examples: overcoming procrastination, the value of our "body wisdom" (which others might call "gut feelings"), dividing huge tasks into manageable pieces, adopting an attitude of abundance, and reshaping our attitudes.

52 Ways will make you think, laugh, and reassess yourself, and will prompt you to alter your personal and professional relationships. I consider this book both practical and inspirational. I'm sure you will, too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Try it on the Golf Course!, July 12, 2002

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Bill Williams (Marietta, Ga. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! Bite-Size Coaching for Success-Minded People (Paperback)

As a part time career counselor and full time entrepreneuer starting a business in coaching, I've found Jeanne's book to be enlightening, delightful and very useful. In a very short period of time I've recommended the book several times to both clients and colleagues as an aid to sort through moving forward with lives and careers.

I have incorporated Jeanne's "Be-Do-Have" formula for living success...from the inside out into my own daily affirmations and have talked about this concept in my workshops (with a nod to Jeanne, of course!). Perhaps the most noticeable, not to mention fun, innovation of "Be-Do-Have" for me, has been on the golf course! I find repeating this mantra as I address the ball, calms me down, smooths out my tempo and improves the results. Well, most of the time!

Buy this book. Read the words. Adopt the wisdom----you'll find yourself smiling, "From the Inside Out!"

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, July 5, 2002

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Killian Bode, Instructor/Manager (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! Bite-Size Coaching for Success-Minded People (Paperback)

52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! is a quick and easy read. Normally, I put self-improvement books down halfway through, as they don't hold my interest. I read Jeanne's book from cover to cover. The 52 Ways were brief and to the point rather than long descriptive paragraphs.

What I liked best was that I could immediately go to the chapters which addressed my areas of concern such as: "Tell-Tale Clues to Being Out of Alignment at Work," A Personalized Strategy for Putting Yourself First", and "What Your Mirror Reflection is Telling You." I particularly liked the yes-no self-test in the "Tell-Tale Clues to Being Out of Alignment at Work." It helped me to easily clarify what my frustrations were at work and what I needed to do to start working from the inside out.

I recommend 52 Ways to Live Success...From the Inside Out! to anyone who wants quick and easy coaching lessons that you can immediately begin to apply.