Understanding and adopting a “Highest and Best” approach will make your world brighter, happier, and healthier. It will contribute to more productive and satisfying relationships, work, love, and play. Sometimes, you just need to be pointed in the right direction. We will look at what Highest and Best means, what it doesn’t, and ways to point you in the right direction.

“Simply Coaching for Your Highest and Best" is about self-discovery. In a world that often pushes us to our lowest and worst, this book offers solutions by developing the ability to champion the Highest and Best in others and ourselves. Gracious and respectful, it motivates and teaches us how to realize a better life and a better world.

The methods, skills, and tools provided in this book will help lead you there.

Motivated by Highest and Best principles, these skills are defined, illuminated and developed through vivid, real-life examples. Opportunities to journal are in each chapter for self-examination and reflection, accelerating and documenting your growth and development.

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Powerful Four - Focus Skills Attitudes & Habits Method is a mental organizing tool used in coaching that will help you gain a better understanding of yourself and others. It provides a simple yet powerful structure to assist you in identifying the specific elements as well as actions needed for success. All things being equal, if these four things are in place, you can't help but succeed.

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If you are like most of us, you crave to be heard and understood. You seek an understanding of who you are as an individual. You search for focus, direction, meaning, and purpose. You want to know where you are going and what to do next. Straightforward and elegant, the Listen Mirror Path Floodlight Method will guide you through the steps of a successful conversation, helping you and others to be well defined, heard and understood.

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When you are clear about your Standards and have appropriate Boundaries to protect them, life gets smoother and you have a much better chance being the kind of person you want to be at your Highest and Best. Learn how to establish and maintain your own personal standards and the boundaries while understanding those of others.

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Fundamental to Creating a Full and Fulfilling Life requires that one fosters Clarity, develops a command of their Spaces, and practices personal development. Understanding clarity, what it is, how to get it and what to do when you don’t have it, is the first step in creating a life worth living. Next, we add developing a command of your spaces – time, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual – to support your life. With these in place, your personal development will soar to your Highest and Best.

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We are at the forefront of our next level of consciousness, a higher way of being. The material presented in Simply Coaching for Your Highest and Best will give readers the basic tools to guide their creations as they live intentionally through the power of their thoughts, words, and actions in a manner reflecting their Highest and Best!

Lynn McIntyre Coffey