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Essential Life Coaching: 15 Must-Read Books for Success
Unlock your coaching potential with these 15 essential books packed with lessons, skills, and techniques to elevate your practice!
Book Summaries
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Covey's classic offers timeless principles for personal effectiveness, making it a must-read for coaches aiming to instill these habits in their clients.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Be Proactive: Take responsibility for your life
- Begin with the End in Mind: Define your personal mission
- Put First Things First: Prioritize what's truly important
Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life
Sharma's guide to morning routines offers coaches a framework to help clients maximize productivity and personal growth through early rising.
3 Key Takeaways:
- The 5 AM Club: Rise Early to Elevate Your Life
- The 20/20/20 Formula for Productive Mornings
- Mastering the Four Interior Empires
How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Robbins' motivational strategies empower coaches to help clients take control of their lives, making it a powerful addition to any coaching toolkit.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Decisions Shape Destiny: The Power of Choice
- Beliefs: The Force Behind Success and Failure
- Emotional Mastery: Understanding and Controlling Your Feelings
How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Goldsmith's insights on behavioral change are invaluable for coaches, helping clients identify and overcome the habits that hinder their success.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Success can blind us to our flaws and hinder growth
- Identify and stop counterproductive behaviors to improve
- Solicit honest feedback to understand how others perceive you
Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
This book is a game-changer for coaches, offering practical strategies through seven essential questions that enhance communication and leadership skills.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Master the art of asking powerful questions to become a more effective leader
- Use the "Kickstart Question" to initiate meaningful conversations
- Employ the "AWE Question" to generate more options and insights
5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
Stutz's innovative tools provide coaches with actionable strategies to help clients overcome obstacles and unlock their potential.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Higher forces exist beyond our rational understanding
- Tools connect us to higher forces, enabling personal growth
- The Reversal of Desire transforms pain into power
Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Beck's insights on self-discovery and personal integrity are invaluable for coaches helping clients navigate life changes and find their true paths.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Reconnect with Your Essential Self to Find Your True Path
- Understand and Navigate the Four Phases of Change
- Overcome Fear and Embrace Courage to Pursue Your Dreams
This workbook complements Covey's classic, providing practical exercises for coaches to help clients implement the 7 habits in their lives.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Be Proactive: Take responsibility for your life and choices
- Begin with the End in Mind: Define your personal mission and goals
- Put First Things First: Prioritize and manage time effectively
Growing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership
Whitmore's seminal text introduces the GROW model, providing a comprehensive framework for effective coaching that every life coach should master.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Coaching unlocks potential and maximizes performance through awareness and responsibility
- The GROW model provides a powerful framework for effective coaching conversations
- Powerful questions and active listening are essential skills for coaches
How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement
Tracy's insights on mindset and personal responsibility are crucial for coaches guiding clients toward achieving their full potential.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Change Your Thinking to Change Your Life
- Take Responsibility for Your Own Success
- Set Clear Goals and Develop a Plan
Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Stanier's follow-up to 'The Coaching Habit' emphasizes the importance of curiosity over advice, making it essential for coaches aiming to empower others.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Recognize the Advice Trap: Giving advice doesn't always work
- Understand Hard Change vs. Easy Change in behavior modification
- Tame your Advice Monster: Tell-It, Save-It, and Control-It personas
Revised Edition
Anthony's insights on self-confidence are essential for coaches aiming to empower clients to overcome limiting beliefs and achieve their goals.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Recognize and Overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs
- Develop Self-Reliance and Break Free from Dependency
- Master the Art of Self-Acceptance and Eliminate Guilt
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Stanier's practical exercises guide coaches in helping clients identify and pursue meaningful work, making it essential for personal development.
3 Key Takeaways:
- Identify Your Great Work: Understand Bad, Good, and Great Work
- Tap into Your Peak Moments to Uncover Great Work Opportunities
- Define Your Best Self and Role Models to Guide Your Great Work
