Power for a Lifetime

Discover Your Inner Coach!Power For A Lifetime is more than just another Self-Help book. Beyond hackneyed goal-setting and trite positive thinking, the strategies in this book represent a fresh approach to personal growth. By developing these simple, highly effective techniques, you will overcome the obstacles that have been preventing you from making permanent changes in your life. For 12 years, Judy Widener has been developing and honing a comprehensive set of life-enhancing strategies that she calls Your Power Toolkit. Judy has taught them to more than 600 clients. Now she's sharing them with you. Based on your personality, desires, and lifestyle, you can customize the techniques in Your Power Toolkit to tweak those little annoyances, make major shifts in one part of your life, or completely reinvent yourself. You'll discover how to:* See what you want more clearly * Develop all the confidence you need to go after it* Overcome the obstacles along the way* Maintain your motivation until you attain what you wantEvery chapter includes a self-coaching exercise that integrates each concept into your life in real time. Each technique you learn becomes part of a 5-step process that takes you from identifying a desire to getting what you want. Power For A Lifetime gives you 36 Power Tool exercises you can use to develop your self-coaching skills. You'll master the same skills coaches use to guide their clients. Along the way, you will:* Build confidence and self-love* Increase your worklife satisfaction* Foster more satisfying relationships* Take command of your emotions * Promote peak healthThese new skills will serve you for the rest of your life.Most personal growth books just throw around empty platitudes like believe in yourself more and take more risks, but they don't give you a framework for accomplishing it. Using common language, Judy breaks down each strategy of Your Power Toolkit into practical, simple terms, describing in detail what to do and how to do it. In addition to trite advice, some of the ideas spread by the personal development field have achieved mythic proportion. But if you accept these myths, your personal growth process will actually be more difficult and take a lot longer. Power For A Lifetime turns these common myths on their ear:* It takes 21 days to form a new habit. The key to breaking old habits is strong willpower and self-discipline.This simply isn't true. Instead of fighting your old habits, you can use your brain's natural processes to form new habits quickly and easily-no willpower or self-discipline needed!* Your emotions are beyond your control. Your emotions create your negative thoughts.Again, not true! You can build the skill of taking control of all of your emotions, including fear, doubt, anger, resentment, and sadness. You'll learn how to balance your emotions and express them appropriately in any situation. * Self-criticism keeps you humble and realistic.Nope! You'll discover how self-judging thoughts undercut your confidence and kill your motivation.* Failure must be embraced as a necessary part of life.Nothing could be further from the truth. You'll reject the notion of failure because it doesn't even exist!Stop settling for a life that's just okay. Start coaching yourself to grow into the person you want to be, living the life you desire.