Life Coaching for Successful Women

Valorie Burton

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If You Could Not Fail, What Would You Attempt? You aim high and work hard to achieve your goals, but the path to success is littered with obstacles. When you're faced with difficult dilemmas, how you respond will determine whether you achieve your dreams or give up altogether. Bestselling author and professional certified coach Valorie Burton knows the value of pausing and reflecting in critical moments as a way to drive personal growth. In her practice, she has developed life-changing questions to help you make meaningful choices that lead to authentic success. Valorie offers a fresh way to help you think about what matters, build the courage to follow through, and discover a vision for your relationships, career, money, health, and spiritual life that energizes you. She willteach you to face opportunities and obstacles with intentionality to discover your purposeinspire and equip you to think differently in the face of fear, failure, setbacks, and challengesoffer a coaching toolbox of more than 100 powerful questions that will propel you forwardLearn to coach yourself with straightforward questions and specific, doable action steps to move confidently toward the life you were created to live.

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• Publié par: Harvest House Publishers
• Date de parution: 07 janvier 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780736980289
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Life Coaching for Successful Women
Copyright 2012, 2020 by Valorie Burton
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-8027-2 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8028-9 (eBook)
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Contents
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
PART 1: INNER RESILIENCE AND WELL-BEING
Your Resilience Checklist
1. How Can You Forgive?
2. What Can Your Emotions Teach You?
3. Instead of Being Happy When , Will You Be Happy While ?
4. What If It Does Work Out?
5. Are You in It to Win It?
6. In What Way Is It Time to Stretch Yourself?
7. Humility and the Right Place
8. What Is Your Procrastination Telling You?
9. Who Are You Really ?
10. What Lesson Is Life Offering You Right Now?
11. Is It Time to Stop Trying to Figure It Out?
12. The Truth About Bouncing Back
13. Will You Give Yourself Permission to Make a Change?
14. Is God Trying to Tell You Something?
15. What s Your Mission?
16. What s the Best Thing That Happened to You Today?
17. Is It Time for a Fresh Start?
18. Is It Time for a Break?
19. Do You Have Goal Fatigue?
20. When Is It Time to Let Go?
21. Are Your Goals Authentic?
22. What Do Successful Women Do Differently?
23. What Bold Decision Is It Time to Make?
24. What Change Would Make You More Productive Today?
25. What s Your Holding Pattern Protecting You From?
26. Is Your Busyness Based in Fear?
27. Is It Time to Speak Up?
Coaching Toolkit
PART 2: BUSINESS, CAREER, AND PERSONAL FINANCE
Your Career and Money Checklist
28. Are You Equipped to Handle Change at Work?
29. How Strong Is Your Professional Network?
30. How Can You Make Yourself More Curious?
31. Are You Resisting Your Breakthrough?
32. Could Your Layoff Be an Opportunity in Disguise?
33. Is Working from Home Stressing You Out?
34. Are You a Communication Leader at Work?
35. Are You Ready for a Career Change?
36. What s Your Personal PR Strategy?
37. Do You Need to Be Unconventional?
38. What Would It Take for You to Get Ahead at Work?
39. What s Your Personal Brand?
40. What Simple Change Could Boost Your Pay?
41. Are Opportunities Chasing You Down?
42. How Would It Feel to Work Less?
43. How Resilient Are You?
44. Could You Turn Your Passion into Profit?
45. What Have You Learned from Your Money Mistakes?
46. Are You an Emotional Spender?
47. What Would Financial Freedom Look Like?
48. Is Fear Fueling Your Spending Habit?
49. Are You on Track to Retire?
Coaching Toolkit
PART 3: RELATIONSHIPS
Your Relationships Checklist
50. Are You an Effective Communicator?
51. What Is Your Most Difficult Relationship?
52. Are You Building Authentic Friendships?
53. How Well Do You Take a Compliment?
54. Do You Know How to Give a Great Compliment?
55. Are You Easy to Love?
56. What s the Key to Boosting Your Kids Confidence?
57. Do You Pass the Love Test?
58. Is It Time to Open Your Home?
59. Is It Time to Stop Complaining and Solve the Problem?
60. Are You Sure You re Ready to Say I Do ?
Coaching Toolkit
PART 4: HOPE AND INSPIRATION
Hope Checklist
61. What Would Jesus Ask?
62. What Dream Do You Need to Resurrect?
63. What Experiment Could Lead to Lasting Change?
64. Could Settling Make You Happier?
65. Are you Performing Because You Can, or Because You re Called?
66. Do You See Yourself Living Your Vision?
67. Are You Ready to Move into Your New Season?
68. I Hate to Admit It, But
69. What Could It Mean That Your Answer Hasn t Come Yet?
70. Do You Have the Five Key Resilience Traits?
71. How Bright Is Your Light?
72. Will You Let Go of the Old to Make Room for the New?
73. Can You Just Wait for Morning?
74. This Isn t What You Planned, Is It?
75. What Could You Do to Feel Happier Right Now?
76. Have You Asked Yourself the Right Questions?
Coaching Toolkit
Conclusion: Seven Sacred Ways to Live Your Best Life
About the Author
Other Books by Valorie Burton
About the Publisher
Preface to the New Edition
I don t think it is by accident that our paths have crossed. Perhaps something about this title spoke to you, and that tells me a little something about who you are: You are a woman with high aspirations. You ve probably already achieved a measure of success, whether in your personal life or professionally. You know success takes perseverance and work, and it takes growth. And you are willing to seek out ideas and advice that will help you grow into the kind of person who can achieve the desires that are in your heart.
No matter how successful we are or how high our aspirations for the future, we all need to be intentional about our growth. Coaching is a powerful way to do that, even self-coaching-the process of pausing, reflecting, and intentionally choosing our steps forward, especially in the face of challenges, opportunities, and obstacles. And that s just what this book is all about. It is a self-coaching tool for you, designed to help you think about what matters, build the courage to do what matters, and a vision for your relationships, career, money, health, and spiritual life that energizes you.
I have spent more than 20 years pursuing my life s calling-inspiring women to live more fulfilling lives. I do that through the power of writing and speaking and coaching. I began my career in marketing and public relations, even found success running my own public relations firm, but I knew deep down it wasn t my calling. I was good at it, but sensed it was not my purpose. It took a couple of years of prayer before I got clear about what I should be doing professionally. And when I did, I took a bold, but frightening leap of faith into a new career-first as an author, then as a speaker when my books brought opportunities to share my message all over the world, then as a personal coach to clients in every state and more than a dozen countries. And now as founder of The Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute, training others as coaches and resilience trainers, and giving individuals the research-based tools to live more fulfilling lives. I d love to say I never looked back or doubted or felt afraid, but that s not true. Especially in the early years, while building a business from scratch. My fear whispered doubts in my ear that took all of my faith and tenacity to overcome.
I don t believe in fearlessness. We all feel fear. Our big goals can scare us. Our past failures and mistakes can drive us to downsize our dream. Our disappointments can paralyze us with the fear that hope is futile, and entice us to settle for less than the desires God has placed in our hearts. And the frenzied pace of modern life can leave us fearing that we will run out of time, that missing out will be our greatest regret, and cause us to choose the false urgencies of a digital life over the meaningful acts that bring true fulfillment.
What I realize is that the tool that can help us make meaningful choices that lead to authentic success is coaching-the courage to pause, reflect, and work our way through powerful, life-changing questions and options that invite us to be intentional about our life. In my life, this process has coached me to a wise answer anytime I have been faced with fear or blindsided by a personal or professional setback, or intimidated by a big opportunity. And week by week, I have shared these insights through a weekly column called The Coaching Session, in which I present insights and challenges that we face on the path to authentic success, along with powerful questions to coach readers to their own wise and powerful answers.
My publisher, Harvest House, loved these weekly inspirations so much that they asked if I would be willing to turn them into a book. That book was originally released as Your Five-Minute Personal Coach and then as Start Here, Start Now , and came out not long after my national bestseller, Successful Women Think Differently .
I was thrilled when the president of my publishing house came to me recently with the idea of refreshing and re