Life Coaching Books

 

 

Life Coaching Resources Pack -

A Compendium of Life Coaching Resources & Tools-
Contains 4 Coaching eBooks!

Coaching Resources for:

*Making Life Changes*

*Building Self Esteem*

*Improving Assertiveness*

and *50 Life Coaching Exercises*

Who is the Life Coaching Resources Pack for?

The Life Coaching Resources Pack is a compendium of life coaching resources in the form of a unique immediately downloadable set of materials for:

1. Life coaches or others looking for materials to use in coaching or

2. Individuals interested in improving their self esteem, assertiveness or making changes in their own life.

The pack represents remarkable value for anyone who believes in life coaching for themself or for others.

What the Life Coaching Resources Pack Contains

The Life Coaching Resources Pack contains 4 eBooks:

1. Changing Your Life - A Practical Guide (eBook self coaching programme)

2. Low Self Esteem - How to Deal with It (eBook guide to building self esteem)

3. 50 Life Coaching Exercises (a resource for self coaching or coaching others)

4. How to Be Assertive (Introductory Guide to 5 methods to increase assertiveness).

The Changing Your Life Guide and the Low Self Esteem Guide have been sold successfully as individual items for some time, but are now for the first time being made available for purchase together in one resources pack together with the two additional bonus books: 50 Life Coaching Exercises & How to Be Assertive.

Each item is available for purchase on its own or as part of the Life Coaching Resources Pack.

Full details of each of the 4 eBooks contained in the
Downloadable Life Coaching Resources Pack are given below:

Life Coaching Resources - Full Contents

eBook No.1: Changing Your Life - A Practical Guide

Introduction

Programme Overview

Module 1: Quality of Life Assessment
Introduction to Module
1.1 Quality of Life Assessment
1.2 Understanding Your Quality of Life Assessment
1.3 Pre-Session Questionnaire
1.4 Planning New Actions

Module 2: Understanding What Kind of Person You Want to Be
Introduction to Module
2.1 My Values
2.2 What Kind of Person Do I Want to be?
2.3 Epitaph
2.4 Achievements and Characteristics
2.5 Aspirations
2.6 Thinking about Needs
2.7 Questions to Consider
2.8 New Actions

Module 3: Analysing the Change Process
Introduction to Module
3.1 The Perfect Process
3.2 The Normal Process
3.3 Examples of Change
3.4 Selecting Practical Strategies for Achieving Change

Module 4: Locating where you are in the Change Process
Introduction to Module
4.1 Identifying where I am
4.2 Weekly Timetable
4.3 My Control of my life
4.4 New Habits

Module 5: Identifying Your Future Vision
Introduction to Module
5.1 What do I want to Change?
5.2 My Future Letter
5.3 The Miracle Question
5.4 Sources of Support
5.5 Working Towards a New Vision

Module 6: Targets and Outcomes
Introduction to Module
6.1 Distinguishing between Targets and Outcomes
6.2 Setting Quality of Life Targets
6.3 Targets and Outcomes Exercise
6.4 Final Targets and Interim Targets
6.5 Reviewing Your Progress since Starting the Programme

Module 7: Your Quality of Life Plan
Introduction to Module
7.1 Creating a Quality of Life Plan
7.2 Forward Planning
7.3 Monitoring and Reviewing Progress
7.4 Your Journey

The Changing Your Life guide is based on research into effective techniques for helping people to make significant life changes and is not available in the shops. It can be flexibly adapted to a range of different circumstances and has been successfully used on numerous occasions in a variety of different life situations.

 

eBook No.2: Low Self Esteem - How to Deal with It

Introduction

Section 1: What is Self Esteem?

Introducing Self Esteem

How Low Self Esteem May Express Itself

Self Esteem and Self Criticism

Where Does Low Self Esteem Come From?

The Aim of the Book

Exercise 1: Self Esteem Assessment 

Section 2: Dealing with Negative Thoughts

Self Critical Thoughts: The Two Types
-Self Critical Thoughts relating to a Particular Situation
-Limiting Beliefs

Tackling Self Critical Thoughts in Particular Situations
-Inner Conversations
-The First Step to Tackling Self Critical Thoughts

- Exercise 2: Noting Down Self Critical Thoughts
-Putting Your Self Critical Thoughts in Perspective

- Exercise 3: Creating Balancing Thoughts
-Using Balancing Thoughts

Section 3: Dealing with Negative Thoughts – Additional Techniques

Analysing Negative Thoughts

Thinking Flexibly and Creatively

Dealing with Your Negative Thinking Patterns

Sample Plan for Dealing with Negative Thinking Patterns

Exercise 4: Your Plan for Dealing with Negative Thinking Patterns

Section 4: Valuing Yourself

Giving Yourself Permission to Value Yourself

Finding Out What You Can Value about Yourself
-What Do You Enjoy Doing?

- Exercise 5: Things that I Enjoy
-Creating Abilities & Achievements out of Enjoyment

- Exercise 6: My Personal Affirmations

Troubleshooting

- Exercise 7: Affirmations Checklist
-Identifying the Positives

- Exercise 8: Positives Diary
-What You Shouldn’t Do With Affirmations
-What You Can Do With Affirmations

Section 5: Limiting Beliefs

What are Limiting Beliefs?

Types of Limiting Belief

A General Comment on Limiting Beliefs

The Impact of Limiting Beliefs

Limiting Beliefs and Low Self Esteem

The Impact of Limiting Beliefs involving Other People

Identifying Your Limiting Beliefs

Exercise 9: Identifying Limiting Beliefs about Yourself

Exercise 10: Identifying Limiting Beliefs involving Others

Limiting Beliefs & Your Past

Exercise 11: Beliefs & Your Past
-Childhood
-Adulthood

Taking Control & Dealing with Your Limiting Beliefs

Exercise 12: Step-by-step Analysis of Limiting Beliefs

Exercise 13: Creating More Constructive Beliefs

Trying Out Your New Beliefs

Exercise 14: New Beliefs – Successes Record

Understanding and Explaining Limiting Beliefs

Exercise 15: Explanations Exercise

Remembering Your Rights

Remembering Other People’s Rights

Conclusion

Putting it All Together

Creating a Plan for Improving Self Esteem

Sample Project Plan for Improving Self Esteem

Blank Project Plan for Completion

Project Plan Review

A Final Word

Appendix
Special Report: Simple Ways of Improving Your Self Esteem

As can be seen from the above, the eBook for dealing with low self esteem covers a range of different areas relating to self esteem including:

First Bonus eBook: 50 Life Coaching Exercises

The 50 life coaching exercises that are included in the bonus eBook are listed below. Next to each exercise is indicated the life coaching topics that the exercise is likely to be most relevant for. A similar list is included in the eBook itself when you buy it from this website so that you can select the exercises from it that are appropriate to you at any given time:

Title of Life Coaching Exercise

Relevant Coaching Areas

Advantages & Disadvantages of Change

Making Changes, Breaking Habits, General Life Coaching, Motivation

Affirmations

Self Esteem, Motivation

Alternative Behaviours

Assertiveness, Anxiety, Self Esteem

Assertiveness – Using the DEAL Method

Assertiveness

Anxious Thoughts

Anxiety, Stress

Balancing Statements for Negative Self Image

Self Esteem, Anxiety, Assertiveness

Building Self Esteem – The List of 3’s

Self Esteem

Career – Assessing Your Next Move

Career

Career Options – Initial Questionnaire

Career

Career Options – Analysis

Career

Change Questionnaire

Making Changes, Breaking Habits, General Life Coaching, Motivation

Core Values

Values, General Life Coaching, Goals

Create Your Vision

General Life Coaching, Goals, Making Changes, Breaking Habits

Creating Your Project Plan

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation

Dealing with Procrastination

Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Dealing with Stumbling Blocks

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Decision Making

General Life Coaching, Making Changes

Ending a Relationship

Relationships

Explanations

Anxiety

Facing Your Fears

Anxiety, Making Changes, Breaking Habits

Fears about Conflict

Assertiveness, Making Changes, Anxiety

Focusing on Others

Anxiety

Improving a Relationship

Relationships

Job Analysis

Career

Job Experience and Suitability

Career

Leisure Activities

General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress

Looking Outwards

Anxiety, Stress

Managing Risks

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Career

Meeting Job Requirements

Career

Monitoring Your Progress

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Motivation & Actions Checklist

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Myths of Change

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Negative Thoughts & Alternatives

General Life Coaching, Motivation, Anxiety, Stress

Negotiation and Compromise in Relationships

Relationships

Positive Rehearsal

Anxiety

Quality of Life Assessment - Short Form

General Life Coaching

Quality of Life Assessment - Long Form

General Life Coaching

Regrets & What You Can Do About Them

General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress, Relationships, Career

Relationship Pros & Cons

Relationships

Reviewing Your Project Plan

General Life Coaching, Motivation, Making Changes

Setting Goals

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Breaking Habits

The ABC Model

General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress, Breaking Habits, Making Changes

The Miracle Question

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation

The Normal Process of Change

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation, Breaking Habits

Thinking Flexibly

General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress

Weekly Diary

General Life Coaching, Anxiety, Stress

Weighing Up Two Options

General Life Coaching, Making Changes

What Are Your Needs?

General Life Coaching, Making Changes

What Are Your Rights?

Assertiveness, Self Esteem

Your Priorities in Life

General Life Coaching, Making Changes, Motivation


The coaching exercises in the eBook are easy to understand and follow, with clear instructions included in each exercise. The exercises draw on proven ideas from coaching models such as:

Second Bonus eBook: How to Be Assertive

The eBook How to Be Assertive offers an introductory guide to 5 different methods or approaches to becoming assertive and expressing yourself and your needs honestly and effectively.

Each of the assertiveness approaches in the eBook has its own value but they can also be used to complement each other so that you have a toolkit of effective techniques for building assertiveness. You can choose to try out one of the assertiveness approaches at a time or you can combine different ones at your choice.

The 5 assertiveness training methods or approaches which are set out in the eBook are:

1. The DEAL Method for Improving Assertiveness - a step by step process for approaching situations where you want to express yourself better or raise a difficult issue in a relationship.

2. Coping with Anxious Thoughts – The STAR Model - A cognitive behavioural trainign method for working through anxious thoughts which might be holding you back from being Assertive

3. Owning Your Fears - A simple process for confronting and taking control of your fears that the worst may happen (sometimes known as 'fortune telling')

4. Rights and Responsibility (R & R) Principles - How to understand and use your rights and responsibilities as a benchmark to help you stand up for yourself whilst respecting others.

5. Try it and See (It’s Not as Crazy as it sounds) - a practical approach to making changes, maintaining motivation and working through the different stages in becoming assertive based on psychological principles and a model of change.

The contents of the second bonus book - How to Be Assertive are listed below:

 

How to Be Assertive - Full Contents List

INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS ASSERTIVENESS

Defining Assertiveness

Assertiveness – The Middle Way

The Three Types of Behaviour

Passive Behaviour

  • Examples of Passive Behaviour
  • Are there any Payoffs from Acting Passively?
  • How Real are the Payoffs?

Aggressive Behaviour

  • Examples of Aggressive Behaviour
  • Are there any Payoffs from Acting Aggressively?
  • How Real are the Payoffs?

Assertive Behaviour

  • Examples of Assertive Behaviour
  • Non Verbal Behaviour
  • The Benefits of Being Assertive
  • Assessing Your Own Tendencies to Passive, Aggressive or Assertive Behaviour

Exercise 1: Understanding Your Own Behaviour
Exercise 2: Your Commitment to Acting Assertively

 

5 APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING YOUR ASSERTIVENESS

Approach No.1: The DEAL Method for Improving Assertiveness

Introduction

Explaining the DEAL Method

  1. Describe the Situation
  2. Express your Feelings and Thoughts about it
  3. Ask for Reasonable Changes that you Feel would Help
  4. Listen and Negotiate a Reasonable Solution where Possible

Negotiation Tips

Exercise 3: Using the DEAL Method for Assertiveness
Exercise 4: Preparing for a Discussion

 

Approach No.2: Coping with Anxious Thoughts  - The STAR Model

Introduction

Using the STAR Model

Step 1: Describe a Problem Situation and the Anxieties it creates for you
Step 2: Set out Possible Alternatives
Step 3: Choosing Alternatives to Try Out

Exercise 5: Create Your Own STAR Model

 

Approach No 3: Owning Your Fears

Introduction

1. Options
- Relationship Example

2. Worst Case

3. Now

Exercise 6: Owning Your Own Fears

 

Approach No.4: Rights and Responsibility (R&R) Principles

Introduction

What is involved in showing respect?

The 4 R&R Principles

  • The Right to Express Your Feelings and Opinions
  • The Right to Say ‘No’
  • The Right to Make Mistakes
  • The Responsibility for Making Decisions

Applying the 4 R&R Principles

Exercise 7: Analysing a Past Situation
Exercise 8: Preparing for a Future Situation

Troubleshooting the R&R Principles

Exercise 9: My Positive Message
Exercise 10: Focusing on Outcomes

 

Approach No.5: Try It and See (It’s Not as Crazy as it Sounds)

Introduction

What about the Fear of Failure?

Making Changes

Stages in Becoming Assertive

Using this Approach

- Exercise 11: One Assertiveness Change

- Assertiveness Plan

- Successes Record

Conclusion
Combining Different Approaches

 

About the Author

The eBooks in the Life Coaching Resources Pack are written by life coach David Bonham-Carter who specialises in the use of CBT, Motivational Interviewing and other practical techniques to help people deal with negative thinking patterns, make practical positive changes and address difficulties such as:

David worked for many years in the UK as a social worker before becoming a professional life coach in private practice.

The materials in the Life Coaching Resources Pack are based on proven principles arising from research into effective helping techniques and include the coaching exercises, techniques and ideas which David has found to be of most use in helping people to make effective changes in his own professional experience.

Feedback

"You have some great resources! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge David. My life is getting better every day...I am also using some of your ideas with a group of women who are seeking to change their lives in a positive way." - Jane, State of Victoria, Australia

"The eBooks you are producing are excellent. They are well laid out and easy to navigate. The language is clean and basic and easy to understand. The exercises and resource listings are also most helpful and appropriate for the book content. You have a way of breaking the theory into bite size chunks that makes it very easy to follow and to implement. Thank you - more books please!" - Freddie, UK

"...Professionally presented and well thought out - quality resources" - Chris, Australia

 

Guarantee

When you purchase The Life Coaching Resources Pack or any of the ebooks in it from this website, you will receive immediately a link to download the ebooks in PDF format. Your purchase is covered by a MONEY BACK GUARANTEE: If you are unhappy with your purchase and do not believe that it represents good value, just request a refund within 15 days of receiving the ebooks and you will be given a complete refund.

 

Life Coaching Resources Pack - Choose Your Items!

You can buy each of the items separately but you get a large discount if you buy them together in one purchase as the Life Coaching Resources Pack.

The 2 bonus items are effectively provided for free in the pack!

 

1. If you would like more information about an individual product in the Life Coaching Resources Pack then just click on the relevant link in the left hand column of the table below. You can purchase an individual item by clicking on the relevant purchase link for that item in the right hand column of the table.

2. If you would like to purchase more than one item then you will get very good value by purchasing the Life Coaching Resources Pack as a whole, which includes all 4 items at a saving of £18 (the last two items in the pack are effectively included for free!). If you want to purchase the whole pack, click on the purchase link below the table and you will be able to download all 4 items immediately on purchase.

Items included in the Life Coaching Resources Pack Description of each Item Price for Item as a stand alone item
Changing Your Life -
A Practical Guide
An eBook Programme for improving your life progressing logically through 7 modules, including practical exercises to complete as you work your way throught the programme

£17.99

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Low Self Esteem -
How to Deal with It
A 70 page eBook Guide for improving your self esteem and dealing with negative self criticism, including a series of easy to follow exercises for you to complete in order to help you feel better and live a more productive life.

£9.99

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50 Life Coaching Exercises A set of 50 life coaching exercises for use by individuals or life coaches and covering a range of life coaching and personal development issues such as making changes, career, relationships, self esteem, anxiety, assertiveness and stress.

£7.99

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How to Be Assertive An introductory guide to 5 different methods or approaches to becoming assertive and expressing yourself and your needs honestly and effectively.

£9.99

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Total Price for Buying Each Item Separately Would Be £45.96

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- A Saving of £18! -
Effectively the 50 Coaching Exercises & the How to Be Assertive eBooks are provided free!

 

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