Coach Yourself: Make Real Change in Your Life (Momentum)

I bought my own copy and I find that I keep going back to it. I am not usually the 'self-help' type but I have used lots of the excercises in this book.

I would recommend it for anyone, no matter how big or small the change is they want to make. The co-coaching bit is especially useful.


Disappointing - doesn't say much   December 13, 2001
Bobby Elliott (Erskine, UK)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful

I don't know what I expected from this book since I don't normally go in for "life style" or "life change" books. I don't have any major crises in my life - and this book is really intended for people who want to change their lives. So unless you're pretty unhappy about yourself and/or your life then avoid this title. I'm neither so I found most of the book irrelevant. If you're life simply needs a "tweak" rather than a major overhaul then choose something like "The 80:20 Principle".


self help that delivers   June 29, 2001
raster100@hotmail.com
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

This is the third book I've bought in this new Momentum self-help series (after Innervation and Change Activist)and it's another good investment. I attended a coaching course last year, but have found these 210 pages so much more useful. This is a book that helps you to help yourself and change without indulging in any of the evnagelism or fuzziness that has always put me off buying self-help books. As one of the reviewers (Head of Drama for Granada TV I think) in the blurb says: "Finally an end to all the bullshit. Unsentimental, straightforward and to the point." Yup.


The perfect blend of the practical and profound   June 5, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is a real gem. I stumbled on it by accident and initially thought it was just another self-help book - but it's far, far more. It is about helping yourself towards your own goal, how to recognise what that is, and how to get there: What do I want to do with my life? Why aren't I doing it? How can I change? There's the rub. It's about change - but not just change per se, but the process of change. It is the perfect blend of psychology and common sense, and all rooted in the practical. The authors claim the techniques and exercises are all based on solid research - and there's certainly no reason to doubt it. I recommend the exercise where you write yourself a letter from the future. You imagine how things can have reasonably worked out in a couple of years - no lottery wins or supermodel marriages - and plot things back to today. It's amazing what emerged as being important. It gave me a fresh look at my life much the same way that travel does, or living abroad for a short period. Simple but profound.

Alongside the theory and exercises, the book is liberally peppered with illustrative real life stories and quotations from a wide range of sources. The latter give the book its thematic tangents, I came away eager to follow up many of them.

I guess to sum it up it's the perfect blend of practical and profound. I for one can't recommend it highly enough. It has played an important part in my midlife crisis. Though don't wait till then to read it.