Jennifer Anderson, Career & Business Development Coach

Recommended Reading For Achieving Working Integrity

( Loving Your Work + Working With Love + Working With Your Life = Working Integrity )

(Click on the picture or the title to buy or find out more at Amazon.com)

June Feature:

Coach Yourself to Success:
101 Tips for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life

by Talane Miedaner

The publisher, Contemporary Books:
"Do you want more out of life? More time, more rewarding experiences, more financial security, more success? There are two basic approaches to getting what you want in life. Either you set your goals and work hard to attain them, or like a magnet, you attract what you want to you. Most of us have been taught that the first way is the way to get ahead. But in reality this is the hard way and often leads to frustration, stress, and poor health. Internationally acclaimed life coach Talane Miedaner can show you a better path. In Coach Yourself to Success, she reveals proven strategies for attracting success. Using the practical wisdom drawn from her experiences as a professional coach for hundreds of Fortune 500 clients and her own personal corporate experience, Miedaner shares 101 of the most powerful and effective coaching tips and presents them in an easy-to-follow, ten-part program. You'll learn how to increase your natural power by identifying what in your life is draining precious energy and replacing those drains with positive energy boosters. You'll be able to eliminate the clutter in your personal life and career and create the time and space for the things you desire most. There is work to do, but it's the most fulfilling kind of work--working on your own life and on being the best you can possibly be. Once you've experienced the spark of Talane Miedaner's coaching method, you will never go back to the old way of pursuing an ever-elusive idea of success."

Back to the top

For Loving Your Work:

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was:
How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

by Barbara Sher with Barbara Smith

Amazon.com
"A life without direction is a life without passion," says motivational specialist, therapist, and career counselor Barbara Sher. In I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, a sort of broader, less dense, and less intimidating version of What Color Is Your Parachute?, she reveals how to "recapture long lost goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams."
This is a perfect book for new college graduates or anyone sick and tired of languishing in a dead-end job or relationship--yet reluctant to make drastic life changes due to uncertainty about what would actually inspire them. I Could Do Anything combines the I'm-not-buying your-excuses inspiration of Dr. Laura Schlessinger with the soothing, analytic encouragement of Dr. Martin Seligman in his classic Learned Optimism. In other words, Sher will pick you up off your butt and get you moving. She's included enough self-analytical exercises in here to save you hundreds of dollars in therapy.
Whether you're looking to make improvements in your job or personal life, Sher will teach you how to determine what your goals are, and how to successfully reach them--even if right now the only thing you know is that you're vaguely to very unhappy and haven't the foggiest idea what to do with yourself."

Back to the top

Live the Life You Love:In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons

by Barbara Sher

Amazon.com sysnopsis:
"This book is the dramatic followup to I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you can make your "impossible" dreams possible, reachable, and real. She shows you how to decide what your dream is, eliminate the unnecessary burdens and clutter in your life, develop your ideas, and get what you want. Stop just getting by and start getting the most out of your life!"

Back to the top

How to Find the Work You Love

by Laurence G. Boldt

Jennifer Anderson:
"Review is pending."

Back to the top

For Working With Love:

Do What You Are:
Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type

by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron Teiger

Amazon.com synopsis:
"Now updated for today's hottest jobs--including telecommunications, biotechnology, and health care professional--this bestselling career guide shows people how to determine their personality type, and then explains which jobs are best suited to each type."

Back to the top

Please Understand Me:
Please Understand Me:Character and Temperament Types

by David Keirsey And Marilyn Bates

Amazon.com's Stefanie Durbin:
"Does your spouse's need to alphabetically organize books on the shelves puzzle you? Do your boss's tsunami-like moods leave you exasperated? Do your child's constant questions make you batty? If you've ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then "Put down your chisel," advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. Keirsey and Bates believe that not only is it impossible to truly change others (which they call embarking on a "Pygmalion project"), it's much more important to understand and affirm differences. Sounds easier than it is, you might say. Well, this book is a guide for putting an end to the Pygmalion projects in your life and starting on the path to acceptance.
For anyone acquainted with the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs personality test, Please Understand Me will be familiar territory--but gone over with a fine-toothed comb. And for the uninitiated, this book will be a quick introduction to personality typing the Myers-Briggs way--with a Jungian accent. After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types.
Unless you're already a true personality-typing devotee, this book may seem a little esoteric, especially the somewhat "in" references to psychological theory that few laypeople will be likely to understand. But give it a chance and you may find that you'll begin to understand why you always know where to find Anna Karenina on the shelf (you have an ESTJ husband), why your boss is sarcastic one day and praises your achievements the next (she's an NF), and why knowing the reason that the sun comes up in the same place every day is important to your little one (he's Promethean). You may even find that once you accept quirks and ticks in others, they will understand you a little better, too."

Back to the top

Working With Your Life:

Rich Dad, Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor & Middle Class Don't

by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter

Amazon.com's Howard Rothman
"Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed."

Back to the top

Real Moments

by Barbara De Angelis

Coach Jen says:
Real Moments is not a new book on the self-help shelves. But if you missed it when it first came out, now is a great time to take a look, especially if you're caught in the trap of forgetting to celebrate the little things in life - as well as the big accomplishments.
Here's what Barbara has to say in her introduction:
"I wrote this book because I needed its lessons and reminders for myself... I began to understand that what was missing from my life were more real moments, moments when I was not trying to get somewhere or be something, moments when I was fully experiencing and enjoying where I was, now."

Here's a quote from the dust jacket:
"A brilliant, groundbreaking book that will fill your heart and nourish your spirit." -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.

From the publisher:
"To many of us, the experiences that we grew up taking for granted leave become distant dreams in our adult lives: marriages that last a lifetime; safe neighborhoods to call home; the certainty that our children will have a better life than we did; and most of all, lots of time to spend as we wish, living for the moment. Instead, we find our time and energy spent recovering from the past or protecting ourselves from the future. The result is a desperate, sometimes dangerous, and often unsuccessful, search for meaning in our lives. In Real Moments, Barbara De Angelis defines happiness not as an acquisition, but as a skill--the skill of capturing every moment and living it completely. With insight, wisdom, and vision, she teaches us how to rediscover real moments with our mates and our children, with our work and our play, in sex and intimacy, and real moments with ourselves. It is an examination of our relationship with the process of living itself, offering inspiration as well as practical tools for creating more of one of the most precious moments of all--moments of true meaning in our lives."

Back to the top

	Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life by Talane Miedaner
*The publisher, Contemporary Books:* "Do you want more out of life? More time, more rewarding experiences, more financial security, more success? There are two basic approaches to getting what you want in life. Either you set your goals and work hard to attain them, or like a magnet, you attract what you want to you. Most of us have been taught that the first way is the way to get ahead. But in reality this is the hard way and often leads to frustration, stress, and poor health. Internationally acclaimed life coach Talane Miedaner can show you a better path. In Coach Yourself to Success, she reveals proven strategies for attracting success. Using the practical wisdom drawn from her experiences as a professional coach for hundreds of Fortune 500 clients and her own personal corporate experience, Miedaner shares 101 of the most powerful and effective coaching tips and presents them in an easy-to-follow, ten-part program. You'll learn how to increase your natural power by identifying what in your life is draining precious energy and replacing those drains with positive energy boosters. You'll be able to eliminate the clutter in your personal life and career and create the time and space for the things you desire most. There is work to do, but it's the most fulfilling kind of work--working on your own life and on being the best you can possibly be. Once you've experienced the spark of Talane Miedaner's coaching method, you will never go back to the old way of pursuing an ever-elusive idea of success."
Back to the top

	I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher with Barbara Smith
*Amazon.com* "A life without direction is a life without passion," says motivational specialist, therapist, and career counselor Barbara Sher. In I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was, a sort of broader, less dense, and less intimidating version of What Color Is Your Parachute?, she reveals how to "recapture long lost goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams." This is a perfect book for new college graduates or anyone sick and tired of languishing in a dead-end job or relationship--yet reluctant to make drastic life changes due to uncertainty about what would actually inspire them. I Could Do Anything combines the I'm-not-buying your-excuses inspiration of Dr. Laura Schlessinger with the soothing, analytic encouragement of Dr. Martin Seligman in his classic Learned Optimism. In other words, Sher will pick you up off your butt and get you moving. She's included enough self-analytical exercises in here to save you hundreds of dollars in therapy. Whether you're looking to make improvements in your job or personal life, Sher will teach you how to determine what your goals are, and how to successfully reach them--even if right now the only thing you know is that you're vaguely to very unhappy and haven't the foggiest idea what to do with yourself."
Back to the top
	Live the Life You Love:In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons by Barbara Sher
*Amazon.com sysnopsis:* "This book is the dramatic followup to I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was. Barbara Sher offers a dynamic new step-by-step program to help you create a life you can fully enjoy. Using the practical exercises and bold strategies she outlines, you can make your "impossible" dreams possible, reachable, and real. She shows you how to decide what your dream is, eliminate the unnecessary burdens and clutter in your life, develop your ideas, and get what you want. Stop just getting by and start getting the most out of your life!"
Back to the top
	How to Find the Work You Love by Laurence G. Boldt
*Jennifer Anderson:* "Review is pending."
Back to the top

	Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type by Paul D. Tieger & Barbara Barron Teiger
*Amazon.com synopsis:* "Now updated for today's hottest jobs--including telecommunications, biotechnology, and health care professional--this bestselling career guide shows people how to determine their personality type, and then explains which jobs are best suited to each type."
Back to the top
	Please Understand Me: Please Understand Me:Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey And Marilyn Bates
**Amazon.com's Stefanie Durbin:** "Does your spouse's need to alphabetically organize books on the shelves puzzle you? Do your boss's tsunami-like moods leave you exasperated? Do your child's constant questions make you batty? If you've ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then "Put down your chisel," advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. Keirsey and Bates believe that not only is it impossible to truly change others (which they call embarking on a "Pygmalion project"), it's much more important to understand and affirm differences. Sounds easier than it is, you might say. Well, this book is a guide for putting an end to the Pygmalion projects in your life and starting on the path to acceptance. For anyone acquainted with the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs personality test, Please Understand Me will be familiar territory--but gone over with a fine-toothed comb. And for the uninitiated, this book will be a quick introduction to personality typing the Myers-Briggs way--with a Jungian accent. After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types. Unless you're already a true personality-typing devotee, this book may seem a little esoteric, especially the somewhat "in" references to psychological theory that few laypeople will be likely to understand. But give it a chance and you may find that you'll begin to understand why you always know where to find Anna Karenina on the shelf (you have an ESTJ husband), why your boss is sarcastic one day and praises your achievements the next (she's an NF), and why knowing the reason that the sun comes up in the same place every day is important to your little one (he's Promethean). You may even find that once you accept quirks and ticks in others, they will understand you a little better, too."
Back to the top

	Rich Dad, Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor & Middle Class Don't by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
*Amazon.com's Howard Rothman* "Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the counterpoint communicated by his "rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out his the philosophy behind his relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of "financial literacy" that's never taught in schools. Based on the principle that income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so that the jobs can eventually be shed."
Back to the top
	Real Moments by Barbara De Angelis
*Coach Jen says:* Real Moments is not a new book on the self-help shelves. But if you missed it when it first came out, now is a great time to take a look, especially if you're caught in the trap of forgetting to celebrate the little things in life - as well as the big accomplishments. Here's what Barbara has to say in her introduction: "I wrote this book because I needed its lessons and reminders for myself... I began to understand that what was missing from my life were more real moments, moments when I was not trying to get somewhere or be something, moments when I was fully experiencing and enjoying where I was, now." Here's a quote from the dust jacket: "A brilliant, groundbreaking book that will fill your heart and nourish your spirit." -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
*From the publisher:* "To many of us, the experiences that we grew up taking for granted leave become distant dreams in our adult lives: marriages that last a lifetime; safe neighborhoods to call home; the certainty that our children will have a better life than we did; and most of all, lots of time to spend as we wish, living for the moment. Instead, we find our time and energy spent recovering from the past or protecting ourselves from the future. The result is a desperate, sometimes dangerous, and often unsuccessful, search for meaning in our lives. In Real Moments, Barbara De Angelis defines happiness not as an acquisition, but as a skill--the skill of capturing every moment and living it completely. With insight, wisdom, and vision, she teaches us how to rediscover real moments with our mates and our children, with our work and our play, in sex and intimacy, and real moments with ourselves. It is an examination of our relationship with the process of living itself, offering inspiration as well as practical tools for creating more of one of the most precious moments of all--moments of true meaning in our lives."
Back to the top

Search:	Enter keywords...