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Everyone talks about letting their dreams take flight and living their life with purpose...but who has time for something like that? In popular author and speaker Valorie Burton's latest book, readers will learn that change happens one action at a time, one day at a time.Based on Valorie's inspirational e-newsletter column "The Coaching Session," Your 5-Minute Personal Coach will spur readers on to real transformation in the five key areas of their lives--professional, financial, relational, physical, and spiritual. It will help readers find harmony, eliminate distractions, fulfill their purpose, clarify their vision, and begin taking steps to fulfill that vision. Readers will learn:the surprising truths about money and happinesshow to say no in a sticky situationhow to love and be lovedhow to give God control over their worrieshow to stay focused on solutions, not problemsIntended as a personal companion for the waiting room, on the airplane, or in bed at night, Your 5-Minute Personal Coach challenges readers with coaching questions and specific, doable action steps they can take immediately.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736942935
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
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YOUR 5-MINUTE PERSONAL COACH Copyright 2012 by Valorie Burton Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-3931-7 (pbk.)
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Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Inner Resilience, Emotional and Spiritual Well-being
What is the most important question you need to answer in your life today?
What are you putting off?
Instead of being happy when , will you be happy while?
What if it does work out?
Are you in it to win it?
In what way is it time to stretch yourself?
What is your procrastination telling you?
Who are you really?
What lesson is life offering you right now?
Is it time to stop trying to figure it out?
Will you give yourself permission to make a change?
Is God trying to tell you something?
What s your mission?
What was the best thing that happened to you today?
Is it time for a fresh start?
Is it time for a break?
Is impatience sabotaging your potential?
Are you overwhelmed with too many goals?
Do you know the five keys to negotiation?
What would help you push through to your breakthrough?
What bold decision is it time to make?
What one change would make you more productive today?
What s your holding pattern protecting you from?
Is your busyness based in fear?
In what way do you need to speak up?
Part 2: Business, Career, and Personal Finance
Are you equipped to handle change at work?
How strong is your professional network?
If you d known then what you know now, what would you have done differently?
What is it time for you to learn?
Could your layoff be an opportunity in disguise?
Is working from home stressing you out?
Are you a communication leader at work?
Are you really ready for a career change?
What s your personal PR strategy?
In what way do you need to be unconventional?
What would it take for you to get ahead at work?
What s your personal brand?
How will you know it s worth going back to school?
Are opportunities chasing you down?
How would it feel to work less?
How resilient are you?
How are your social media habits influencing your career goals?
Could you turn your passion into profit?
What have you learned from your money mistakes?
Are you an emotional spender?
What would financial freedom look like for you?
Are you financially on track to retire?
Part 3: Relationships
Are you an effective communicator?
What is your most difficult relationship?
Are you sure you re ready to say I do ?
Are you building authentic friendships?
How well do you take a compliment?
Do you know how to give a great compliment?
Are you easy to love?
Do you know the key to boosting your kids confidence?
Do you pass this love test?
How good are you at making new friends?
Is it time for a get-together?
Is it time to stop complaining and solve the problem?
Part 4: Hope and Inspiration
What would Jesus ask?
What dream do you need to resurrect?
Are you ready to move into your new season?
Should you give up or get up?
What could it mean that your answer hasn t come yet?
Do you have the five key resilience traits?
How bright is your light?
Will you let go of the old to make room for the new?
Can you just wait till morning?
This isn t the way you planned it, is it?
What could you do to feel happier right now?
Conclusion
About the Author
Introduction
Over the years, I have had the wonderful privilege of writing to thousands of people each week, sharing what s on my heart and hoping it might inspire them with ideas and action steps to find greater fulfillment, joy, and resilience. My weekly e-newsletter, The Coaching Session , is my most basic way of expressing my purpose in life: inspiring others to live more fulfilling lives and using writing and speaking as a vehicle to do that.
The most thrilling part of this weekly journey is always the e-mails I receive in return: How did you know I was dealing with that issue this week? These are just the words I needed! Such comments always bring a smile to my face. They let me know that I ve had the privilege of being used as a vessel, and that the seemingly random ideas that come to me to write about are not really so random at all. God s hand is always in it, even on a not-so-great writing day. My job is to get out of the way and let the words flow, trusting that they ll hold special meaning for you.
After more than a decade of this sort of writing, I ve been asked to commit these weekly messages to book form. Your 5-Minute Personal Coach is the result! I ve also packed this book with tools such as assessments, Did You Know? facts that you can apply to your life, and powerful coaching questions that will help you break through the barriers that hold you back from your true potential.
As a personal and executive coach and as the founder of an organization that trains professional coaches, it is my job to ask powerful questions. Over and over again, I have been amazed at the ability of the right question to unearth the answers that lay within us all along. When you ask the right questions, you get the right answers.
But with the fast pace of life, we don t sit still long enough to ponder. We believe we are saving time by charging ahead with our plans, never pausing for a moment to be intentional about our next steps. I believe in the power of coaching to absolutely transform your life. In fact, it is part of my mission to help you learn to coach yourself. Coaching will, I hope, become a way of life for you. When faced with a dilemma, I want you to learn to pause and ask yourself the right question. Rather than panicking or worrying or soliciting everyone else s opinion (especially the opinions of those who are not wise or experienced enough to shed the light you need), I invite you instead to have a coaching moment. And this book is full of coaching moments.
I ve packed each section with a coaching toolbox of 25 questions. Use these questions to get the powerful next steps that will propel your life forward. And use them with others! If you manage people or are a coach, parent, teacher, or lead people in any capacity, these questions can have a powerful impact.
Some coaching moments will be quick. As soon as you ask the question the answer will be so obvious that you won t need to journal about it or ponder it very long. In fact, you may find yourself saying, Why didn t I ask myself that question in the first place? For example, when you find yourself being unproductive or procrastinating, the simple question, Is this how I really want to spend my time right now? will likely yield a pointed answer: No. This will lead to the more important question: So what am I going to shift my attention to right now? It may sound elementary, but research actually confirms that the most successful, resilient people in life and in business are masters at coaching moments. These people are self-aware enough to notice their thoughts and intentionally change them to the ones that are the most productive and effective for achieving their goals-whether those goals are in relationships, work, finances, health, or your emotional or spiritual life.
Carry this book with you and pull it out when you have a spare moment. Put it next to the bed and read one of its messages first thing in the morning or in the evening before bedtime.
The messages within are tools to help you become more resilient and effective in every area of your life. You may choose to go through it one page at a time, applying the coaching questions to whichever dilemma or opportunity seems appropriate, or you may choose to skip ahead to the section of questions you think will be most helpful to you at the present time.
As you read through these pages, I hope you ll sense that I am writing to you as a friend, not an expert-as someone who wants to support you in moving your life to the next level, whatever that looks like for you. Over the years, I ve received e-mails and notes from readers just like you who ve read my coaching questions and had major breakthroughs-many of them begrudgingly. One woman wrote, I m so mad at you right now for asking those hard questions. I didn t want to answer them! But for some reason, I did anyway. I hate to admit it, but those tough questions were just what I needed.
Honesty isn t easy, and it takes courage to tell the truth. But the truth is the only answer that will move you forward authentically. If you don t tell yourself the truth, you can t possibly find real solutions that work. So as you read these pages, I want to encourage you to muster the courage to be honest. Give yourself permission not to know all the answers. Sometimes, the fact that you don t know the ans