Resources   Train as a LifeCoach Do you want to become a life coach and set up your own practise?   Life Coaching Questionnaire Take a few minutes to fill in our coaching questionnaire and mail it to yourself.   Personal Growth The Life Coaching Handbook – Curly Martin I read this book in June 2003, after having read several other books about life coaching. This one knocked all the others for six. I found it practical and straight to the point. I was so impressed with the book that I contacted Curly and enrolled on her Life Coaching Diploma course. I can highly recommend the book and if you like the book, you will love the Life Coach Training Course. How To Make Your Dreams Com True – Mark Forster Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. Mark allows us to witness his personal journey of changing his own life by following his instincts and fulfilling his dreams. Packed with superb hints tips and guidance. Transform Your Life – Carole Gaskell A useful step by step guide to changing key elements of your life.  Clearly written and easily accessible. Be Your Own Life Coach - Fiona Harrold A motivational guide with a slightly spiritual underlying approach.  Some good examples and anecdotes. Your Best Year Yet - Jinny S Ditzler 10 key questions drawing on the past year and designing the next 12 months.   Career How to Find the Work You Love - Laurence G Boldt A book to empower you to find your calling based on the principles of integrity, service, excellence and enjoyment.  Small but very motivating. What Color Is Your Parachute? - Richard Bolles The classic job finders manual updated each year.  Contains lots of exercises and advice. Build Your Own Rainbow - Hopson and Scally A step by step workbook to discover what you want from your career and to plan how to get it. The Work We Were Born to Do - Nick Williams A spiritually driven approach to finding your calling based around 12 key principles.  Exercises and stories.   Small Business Soloing - Harriet Rubin The tale of one person setting up on her own and the challenges she faced together with advice on how to deal with them. Get Clients Now! - C J Hayden A clear step by step methodology  to get create a marketing plan to get clients - particularly for professionals and consultants. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got - Jay Abraham A book which asks you the difficult questions about what you are doing with your business and challenges your assumptions.  Provocative.  The E Myth Revisited - Michael E Gerber Reminds us that the way to build a successful business is to work on it rather than in it.  Identifies other reasons why small businesses fail and how to deal with them.   NLP NLP Workbook – Joseph O’Connor A good comprehensive overview with lots of exercises. Persuasion Engineering – Richard Bandler Explains how we use our communicating processes to generate behaviours. NLP at Work – Sue Knight A simple description of NLP without the jargon.  A good introduction for the work context. The simplification perhaps loses some of the real power of NLP. NLP: The New Technology of Achievement – Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner Presents all the key principles and has some good exercises for developing yourself. Introducing NLP – Joseph O’Connor & John Seymour Another good standard introduction - less empowering than Andreas & Faulkner My Lessons with Kumi – Michael Colgrass Introduces some key NLP skills for managing yourself.  Written by an actor and presented as story with theory in an appendix. Using Your Brain - for a CHANGE – Richard Bandler By one of the founders of NLP.  let you change the way you think about things.  Recommended to understand the mind and attitude behind NLP. Unlimited Power – Anthony Robbins NLP presented with American energy and very motivating.  Less comprehensive than some. Awaken the Giant Within – Anthony Robbins Robbins' own development of NLP and worth a read.  Motivating and full of stories.