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Coaching Is for Everyone: New Book by Terri Levine

I've known Terri Levine for years; she's one of the most successful life coaches around, as well as being prolific in her work. Besides this new book being released May 1 (buy it then and get the superb bonuses), she's published 9 other books.

Coaching Is for Everyone: Learn How to Be Your Own Coach at Any Age
by Terri Levine

"To manifest your fullest ability and become a great self-creator, you need a superstar coach. Terri's the coach of coaches, who teaches coaching from the highest point of view with the most insight, knowledge and wisdom. Reach & drink deeply of her wisdom. Then go out and become a great coach, also." -- Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series "Chicken Soup for the Soul"

In her new book Coaching is for Everyone, Terri helps people evaluate their strengths and weaknesses identifying old patterns of behavior and replacing them with techniques that will help them live happier more fulfilling lives.

"Whether you want to improve your relationships, lose weight or increase your productivity at work, you're never too old to learn how to turn your life around", says Levine.

Levine is one of the country’s top certified professional life coaches.  In Coaching is for Everyone Terri Levine shares:

The Milkshake Moment by Steven S. Little

The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth by Steven S. Little

The story I’m about to tell you is true.

A few years ago I traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, for a speaking engagement.  Anyone who travels for business knows that it is hardly glamorous. After 9/11, however, it became even more frustrating, and it keeps getting worse.

I don’t think I’d be overstating it to say that business travel today is horrific: irretrievably lost luggage, annoying security searches, perpetually oversold flights, infuriating rental car policies, frazzled counter staff . . . I think you get the picture.

Despite all the traumas of travel, I decided a few years ago to always keep a smile on my face. The way I look at it: if the business travel industry gets the best of me, they win and I lose. I just can’t allow that to happen.

I keep a smile on my face by keeping my eye on a prize. My prize at the end of every business travel day is a vanilla milkshake . . . a thick, gooey, luscious, indulgent vanilla milkshake. I’m talking a hand-dipped, old-fashioned, malt-shoppy kind of milkshake. I don’t just like ’em; I love ’em. Both my career and my mental well-being literally depend on them. The image of that milkshake is the proverbial dangling carrot that gets me through even the worst travel day.

Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

There's an interesting interview on Lee Odden's Online Marketing blog with Charlene Li, vice-president of Forrester Research about her new book written with Josh Bernoff, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Companies worldwide are trying their best to make sense of the emerging landscape of social technologies and the new book Groundswell does a fantastic job at just that.

We met Charlene at BlogHer Conference last year, and she's one of the most knowledgeable experts on blogging and social technology research. In her interview with Lee, she mentions several CEO blogs that are well done, and some of the problems inherent in executive blogging.

Read the interview, and buy the book, if you want to understand what's coming next for using social technologies for marketing large and small.

5 Keys for Life and Career Success

Straight Talk for Success: Common Sense Ideas that Won't Let You Down, by Bud Bilanich

April 22 is the launch day for this new book full of common sense advice for successful living. Buy this book on April 22 and you'll receive many bonuses listed here. Here's what Bud says about his book and its message:

If you’re like most people, you want to build a successful life and career but you’re not sure exactly how to go about it.  My new book, Straight Talk for Success, can change all of that.

I am an executive coach, keynote speaker, leadership consultant and author who has spent the years studying what it takes to succeed in your life and career. I have found that successful people share five traits in common. 

1. Successful people are self confident.
   2. Successful people have positive personal impact.
  3. Successful people are outstanding performers.
   4. Successful people are excellent communicators.
  5. Successful people are interpersonally competent.