Quick Video: Ten Books Coaches Recommend to Coaches

Here is the full reading list from Coach Lillian Mills:

Hi, Mark. Happy to share this list. Different books came up along the way throughout my coach training and actual coaching. They are in no particular order. What is so cool is that each book seemed to be just what I needed to know for my clients at the time I read it.

TheNoticer – Andy Andrews
The Traveler’s Gift – Andy Andrews
The Success Principles – Jack Canfield
Harmonic Wealth – James A. Ray
The Speed of Trust – Stephen M.R. Covey
The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
Happy For No Reason – Marci Shimoff
Non-Violent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life – Daniel Amen
Now What? Ninety Days To A New Life Direction – Laura Berman Fortgang
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was – Barbara Sher
Life Launch – Frederick Hudson
The Art of Possibility – Benjamin & Rosamund Zander
Quiet Leadership – David Rock
Taming Your Gremlin – Richard Carson

Hope this is useful. I am always using something from at least one of these ongoing.

Warmly,
Lillian

Thanks Mark for sharing Lillian’s brilliant list. Wondering if anyone can point to any resource on ‘pricing the coach’s fee’ or similar subject matter? Would be great if there are resources on ‘universal pricing structures for the coach’.

Thanks.

Billy C H Teoh
Malaysia.

Billy,

I’ve put the question of sources on coaching fees and universal pricing structures–that’s a good topic!–to the resourceful world of coaches on Twitter, and when I hear back, I’ll post the answer.

Best,

Mark

I am sharing 33 books. To get the 49 pages of quotes I pulled from the 33 books – for monthly discussions in my Seattle home Рemail moreah@comcast.net and put QUOTES in subject line

1) Walsch’s New Revelations
2) Tolle’s Power of Now
3) Walsch’s Friendship with God
4) Levoy’s Callings
5) Booth’s When God Becomes a Drug/ Religion and Spirituality
6) Hendrix’ Keeping the Love You Find
7) Deida’s various books (www.deida.com)
Hogan’s Intellectual Foreplay
9) Bryson’s Don’t be Nice; be Real
10) Gray’s Mars and Venus in the Bedroom
11) Ruiz’ The Four Agreements ‚Äì just the agreements without quotes
12) Levey’s Living in Balance
13) Hawkins’ Power vs. Force
14) Brach’s Radical Acceptance
15) Katie’s Loving What Is
16) Paul’s Do I Have to Give Up Me to be Loved by You?
17) Dyer’s Power of Intention
18) Neuharth’s Secrets You Keep from Yourself
19) Miedaner’s Coach Yourself to Success‚Ķ101 Tips‚Ķ.
20) Rubin’s Compassion and Self Hate
21) Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication
22) Branden’s Disowned Self
23) Perls’ Gestalt Therapy Verbatim
24) Walsch’s What God Wants
25) Barry Schwartz’ The Paradox of Choice ‚Äì Why More is Less
26) Tolle’s A New Earth
27) Don Miguel Ruiz’ The Voice of Knowledge
28) Hicks’ Ask and it is Given
29) Ken Foster’s Ask and You Will Succeed: 1001 Ordinary Questions to Create Extraordinary Results
30) Geshe M. Roach. The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for Managing Your Business and Your Life
32) Hicks’ The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent
33) Martha Beck’s The Joy Diet

Moreah Vestan Compassionate Communication Trainer, Life Coach, Columnist
http://communicationcoaching.net
http://www.pleasuresandponderings.com

Moreah,

Wow… that’s an impressive list. It also reminds me someone sent me a very long reading list that I didn’t have space to include in our original Quick Video. I’m going to hunt it down and post it as well.

Mark

funny, I just posted an article on just that too!

http://www.morethanyourtime.com/resources/recommended-reading/great-summer-reads/

Mark ,

Surely useful list ,

But little surprised that there not a single book on list by Goldsmith ?

Coaching for performance by John Whitmore is also the one which need to be on list.

With Regards
Santosh

Santosh,

Thanks for your comment and book suggestions. We got an interesting collection–all in response to a question posed to coaches on Twitter, so this was not intended to be an authoritative list of the best works on the subject, but rather what coaches would recommend this summer.

And the list, as you see, keeps growing.

Glad to have you joining the conversation!

Mark

Mark,

This is a great opportunity to share resources. Here are 15 books that bring me fresh insights each time I open their pages.

1. The Leadership Dojo by Richard Strozzi Heckler
2. The Art of Possibility by Ben Zander
3. The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debra Ford
4. Anatomy of Peace by the Arbinger Institute
5. A Theory of Everything by Ken Wilber
6. Antonio Gaudi: The Complete Buildings (his architecture is a case study in possibility)
7. Confidence by Barbara Sher
8. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
9. The Joy Diet by Martha Beck
10. Loving What Is by Byron Katie
11. The Highest Goal by Michael Ray
12. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer
13. Think Naked by Marco Marsan
14. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
15. Poetry of David Whyte (House of Belonging), Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda and the Ten Poems To .. .book series by Roger Housden