Be Your Own Mentor

by Bruce, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780071487771
• ISBN10: 0071487778
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-10
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The author reaches hundreds of thousands nationwide via her radio show, "Anne Bruce, Life Coach," on CNN Radio and thousands of people a year through her speaking engagementsThe strategies and real-world techniques have been tested over the past 17 years in the hundreds of seminars and workshops the author has conducted around the world

Author Biography

Anne Bruce is a well-respected workplace coach, speaker, and author. She has appeared on “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “Good Morning America” and has been a featured speaker at the White House and at major companies around the world.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Dump the "Gotta Get Me a Coach" Approach and Start Looking Within!	p. 1
Your Self-Transformation Starts Here	p. 3
Take Control-Become the Primary Navigator in Your Life	p. 4
Take Control-You Are the Sole Navigator in Your Life	p. 7
Mentor Yourself toward Courage and Hope	p. 8
Fear-The Great Debilitator	p. 11
Establish Platinum Standards That Reflect the Best in You	p. 16
Be Accountable for Your Choices-Each One Represents Your Intellect and Self-Esteem	p. 17
Your Four-Part Formula for Success Starts Here	p. 21
Free Yourself!
Traditional Career Planning Will Be Gone As We Know It	p. 25
Get Ready to Join the Ranks of Free Agent Globalization!	p. 25
Good-Bye to Traditional Career Planning	p. 28
The Future of Career Planning	p. 31
Career Development Requires Boundaryless Careers and Boundaryless Thinking	p. 32
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 1	p. 38
Designing Your Best Life	p. 39
No, You Can't Be Anything You Want to Be	p. 39
People's Expectations of Us	p. 40
Making Ugly Pretty	p. 41
To Be Your Own Mentor, You Must Nurture Your Nature	p. 44
Design a Do-It-Yourself Career and Personal Success Life Strategy	p. 45
A Guidance System and Compasses to Help You Be Your Own Mentor	p. 46
Activating the System	p. 48
How to Get Started	p. 49
Take Control: Design Your Dream Life	p. 51
Start a Binder or Journal	p. 53
The Million-Dollar Question: Why Am I Doing This, Anyway?	p. 81
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 2	p. 82
So Long, Organizational Worker-Hello, Entrepreneurial Thinker!	p. 83
Make Employees Feel like Partners and Family	p. 84
Three Steps to Mentoring People to Think like Entrepreneurs	p. 85
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 3	p. 92
Think for Yourself!
Mentor Intelligent Risk-Taking	p. 95
Star Managers Mentor Intelligent Risk-Taking and So Do Movie Stars	p. 95
You're Sure to Miss 100 Percent of the Shots You Don't Take	p. 96
Everyone Makes Mistakes and That's a Good Thing!	p. 97
Risk Taking Is Empowerment with a Bow Tie at This World-Class Hotel	p. 99
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 4	p. 100
The Schoolhouse No Longer Rocks	p. 101
Welcome to Free Agent Education and the Rule to Unschool	p. 101
Unschooling Ourselves for Higher Education	p. 102
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 5	p. 105
Ghosts of Life-Coaching Mentors Past and Present	p. 106
Three Ghostly Visitors We All Could Use	p. 106
Appoint Real-Life Mentors and Coaches to Your Life Board of Directors	p. 108
Life Board Members Are Mentors Who Help Us Reinvent Ourselves	p. 109
Cultivate Mentors Who Support Your Dreams and Fill Your Tank	p. 110
The How-To Part of Making It Happen	p. 110
Even Madonna and Al Gore Reinvent Themselves-What Are You Waiting For?	p. 112
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 6	p. 113
Reinvent Yourself!
The Circus That Won't Stop Reinventing Itself	p. 117
Cirque du Soleil-A Paragon of Innovation	p. 117
Cirque du Soleil: Mini Case Study on a Very Successful Business Model	p. 118
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 7	p. 122
Real-World Reinventors	p. 124
We Reinvent Ourselves Crafting Life's Second Acts	p. 124
The Ex-Offender Who Reinvented Himself	p. 126
Don't Talk about It, Be about It!	p. 128
The Doctor Is In	p. 129
A Doctor Starting Over from Scratch	p. 130
The Peace Corps Volunteer Who Would Be Texan and Grande Dame of Dining	p. 132
Indispensable and a Joy to Read	p. 134
Keeping the Faith under Superhuman Stress	p. 135
Reinventing Herself-From Public Assistance Recipient to World-Renowned Author	p. 136
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 8	p. 137
Being Your Own Mentor Is like Doing Stand-Up Comedy-Whose Line Is It, Anyway?	p. 138
Igniting Yourself Is All About Adapting Life's Lessons to Suit Your Individual Needs	p. 139
The Creative Way a Stand-Up Comic Ignites Laughter	p. 140
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 9	p. 145
Ignite Yourself!
Why Your Self-Esteem Is Directly Related to Your Intelligence	p. 149
Intelligence in Action	p. 149
Hundreds of Intelligences to Choose From	p. 154
What Really Predicts Your Success in Life	p. 155
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 10	p. 157
Reignite Yourself with the Power of Karma	p. 158
What Are You Putting Out There? Is It Glorious or Is It Toxic?	p. 158
Being Your Own Mentor Requires Good Karma, Because Your Actions Will Come Back Full Circle	p. 160
Take This Self-Esteem to Good Karma Quiz	p. 164
Manager's Checklist for Chapter 11	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 168
Index	p. 177
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