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Your Best Year Yet 1

Over the next few days you will find that there will be a series of posts about resources you may be interested in, perhaps even belated Christmas presets to yourself 🙂

Today we begin with Your Best Year Yet by Jinny S. Ditzler.

Coaches often deal with goals so you may already have personally carried out your own goal setting exercises for the New Year. This book is one I was introduced to several years ago and one I have used myself practically every year since.

Your Best Year Yet is a book that is split into 3 parts:

  1. An introduction to the principals behind “Your Best Year Yet” and sharing experiences of those who have already played,
  2. Part two comprises of 10 chapters, with each chapter devoted to a particular question,
  3. The space in the book for you to answer your questions and complete your very own best year yet “workshop”.

How you use this book is is up to you, if you wanted you could jump straight to part 3 referring back only to part 2 for any clarity you need on any of the questions. You may want to read parts one and two in preparation for using the program yourself.

The workshop section comprises of 10 questions that look back over the last year, guides you through identifying what you want and then walks you through setting your own guidelines and focus. In my opinion, it’s beauty is in its simplicity. Its layout means that no matter if you are familiar with goal setting creating your own personal plan for the year ahead is very easy.

You can take as long as you like to complete this book but I would estimate that the final section would need 2-3 hours to answer fully.

[Amazon.co.uk] Your Best Year Yet: Make the Next 12 Months Your Best Ever!

[Amazon.com] Your Best Year Yet: Make the Next 12 Months Your Best Ever!


Time to Think

Today I wanted to write about another resource. I have shelves full of personal development and coaching related books, many that are superb. So picking the one to write about first is a challenge but one I have happily undertaken.


Time to Think by Nancy Kline

Time to Think by Nancy Kline

Time to Think by Nancy Kline , in my opinion, is a must read for coaches. (I also recommend her follow-up book More Time to Think, published last year.)

Time to Think is one of my favourite coaching books and I find it can also be a really powerful questioning technique. Yes, I know you may have covered questioning on any coaching training you’ve done but have you done it this way?

The book will take you through the whole process and how to craft a personalised question. It’ll be a unique question that when formed correctly really gets to the core of the situation allowing clarity and ease to follow.  I encourage you to use it for yourself in a specific context so that you can experience for yourself the impact it can have.

PS I’m very excited by the fact we have our first guest post starting next week, and the list is growing with a real mix of people who have agreed to write a post. I want a real mix of topics, opinions and approaches and certainly by those who have offered and agreed so far Friday posts are certainly going to provide that.

Keep visiting and watching the twitter feed for details about who is coming each week. 🙂