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Authors, Prepare a Meta Tool Box for Coaching Yourself
1 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The first in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”
— Marshal McLuhan
When working with a coach, a client has one of the best tools possible for making desired changes and expanding their life…the coach! When we coach ourselves, however, we can skip straight to the other powerful tools of coaching. Before we dive into those coaching concepts, I want to introduce some meta tools you’ll need to support your work with the ideas and techniques presented in this 28-part series.
These four devices will help you implement the rest of the self-coaching tools to follow. One or all of these modes will be the ways you explore the concepts, make them your own, come to understand the principles more deeply, and apply new practices to your craft, author goals, and author business.
