7) Replace negative self-talk/beliefs with life-enhancing ones. Know that you are creator of your thoughts and beliefs, and choose ones that are life-enhancing rather than limiting.

8) Journal daily- your thoughts, emotions, barriers, possible solutions/alternatives, daily successes, your gratitudes.

9) Enlist support to keep you accountable! Find a buddy, join a group, hire a coach. Make sure your buddy is in tune with your goal, and will support you in a positive way.

10) Celebrate your successes! Set up small milestones in your journey, and when you reach them, celebrate! And at end, celebrate some more!

Results? Says David, “After several years of challenges, client has tripled his income, maintained his real estate business, and, if you ask his wife and daughter, he’s a great husband and father.”

David says he doesn’t take credit for success, that client “achieved it through hard work, determination and willingness to play a bigger game.”

How many coaches are there? 20,000 globally, says International Coach Federation, with about 75% of them in US. There are several coaching schools and training institutions, and some universities, including Georgetown and George Mason, offer coaching courses.

Some coaches are also teachers, offering distance learning and email courses, and many have written ebooks.

“I just wanted to say thanks for course,” wrote Cam Howey, Supervising Metallurgist, Stelco, Canada, who took The EQ Foundation Course©.

“We’re currently in a major push to lower costs and restore profitability. Your course has been and will be a great help to me. It’s taught me new ways of thinking, exposed me to art and music I’d never have seen otherwise, and it’s reinforced what I’ve been taught by others, optimism, listening, awareness of body language and self-awareness. Re-reading course last night reinforces my belief in tremendous potential in all people, and our responsibility as managers to nurture and help people develop to their full potential. One of kickers is you can’t take your staff any higher than you are.”

Colleen Sibeijn, UK, who also took course wrote: “I did [the EQ] course last year and have become so much more in tune with my emotions and of those around me. I am more in control of them and my family and friends have noticed. …[Y]ou have inspired me to be best person I can be."

“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren’t sure how to do it? Here’s how to jump start your new life today … Hire a coach,” says Modern Maturity magazine.

Other coaches teach by teleclass.

“I just finished taking your teleclass on How to Succeed in Speaking Business...it was an Exhilarating Epiphany! Charged! Challenged and Changed...I will never be same! Thanks loads!" wrote Lorraine LeMon, Motivational Speaker, to her coach, Sandra Shrift, http://www.schrift.com/index.htm , Executive Speech Coach.

There will soon be a coach for everything, an exciting possibility. Why go it alone? Here are just a few who specialize in areas that can benefit clients:

·Anne Dibala, M. D., addictionologist, TheRecoveryCoach, http://www.responsiblerecovery.com .

·Talasteena Miller, Ed. D., The Breast Cancer Coach, http://www.breastcancercoach.com .

·Nancy Fenn, TheIntrovertzCoach, http://www.theintrovertzcoach.com .

·Judi Craig, Ph.D., ( www.coachsquared.com ), Executive, Business, Sales and Career coach.

·Jim Gillespie, Ph.D., http://www.realestatesalescoach.com , Real Estate Coach

·Marshall O’Brien, http://www.byregion.net/profiles heinhousegourmet.html , Cooking Coach.

·Debra Phillips, http://www.griefrelief.com/ , Grief Coach.

·Marianne Craig, http://www.todayscoach.com/TC2-4hiv.html , HIV Coach.

·William Arruda, http://www.reachcc.com/reachdotcom.nsf/ , Personal Branding Coach.

Don’t see niche there you’re looking for? Maybe you could be that coach. Coaches have a conglomeration of education, credentials, academic training, and actual experience surviving and thriving in fields they coach that qualify them to do what they do.