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your own special project, this little book will inspire you. You
will learn to use what you have and recognize your faults as
your best ingredients.
Greaves, Suzy. Making the Big Leap: Coach Yourself to Create the
Life You Really Want. London: New Holland Publishers, 2007.
If you are struggling with fear and want to quit and start your
own business, read this inspiring little book written by one of
my coaching colleagues in the UK.
Jones, Laurie Beth. The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement
for Work and for Life. New York: Hyperion, 1996. A step-by-
step process for creating a mission statement for your life
that can be used to initiate, evaluate, and refine all of life’s
activities. Excellent questions to answer to create your own
life plan.
Klauser, Henriette Anne. Write It Down, Make It Happen:
Knowing What You Want—and Getting It! New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2000. A fun read that will inspire you to start writ-
ing down exactly what you want.
Maslow, Abraham H. Toward a Psychology of Being. 2nd ed. New
York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1968. The original academic
source for the hierarchy of needs; the concept that emotional
needs are requirements for our self-actualization and well-
being comes from Maslow. Read this to understand his early
work on needs and their critical role in the process of human
growth, development, and self-actualization. Also by Maslow
is Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences. New York: Penguin
Compass, 1964.
McDonald, Bob, and Don E. Hutcheson. Don’t Waste Your
Talent: The Eight Critical Steps to Discovering What You Do
Best. New York: The Highlands Company, 2005. The book
describes in detail the results from The Highlands Program,
the computerized online assessment that we use in Talane
Coaching Company to help people identify their hardwired
talents and abilities. This is the most comprehensive assess-
ment that I currently know of on the market and the one we