The 10-Minute Life Coach: Fast Working Strategies for a New You [Paperback]

'With The 10-Minute Life Coach Fiona Harrold incontrovertibly establishes herself as the reigning queen of life coaching. For failsafe daily success and all you need to know about conquering the contemporary world, don't leave home without this book in your pocket.' (Rachel Holmes, Amazon.co.uk )

'The 10-Minute Life Coach should be permanently in your bag for those panic "I need someone's help with this" moments in life. Brilliant.' (Susannah Osborne, Elle )

'Helps you focus on your goals - and get there fast' (Daily Telegraph )

'Fiona Harrold is not only one of the most dynamic and positive people you will ever meet, but also has the talent to make you feel the same way too. With The 10-Minute Life Coach, she's given her blueprint for success in easy-to-swallow, bite-size chunks that even the busiest and most stressed among us can follow.' (Robina Dam, Daily Mail )

'the country's top life coach' (Daily Mail )

'The UK's leading life coach and possibly the most positive person alive' (ES Magazine )

'London's leading life coach' (Evening Standard )

'The can-do woman for the New Establishment' (Scotland on Sunday )

'A confidante to the powerful....people flock to Fiona' (Sunday Mirror )

'The Queen Bee of British life coaching' (Daily Express )

'...this book should be on everyone's bookshelves... What makes Harrold's book so much better than other coaching books is that each task is simple and easy to maintain, which gives you confidence to keep going' (Be Unlimited )

'10 minutes of this each day might even fulfil Harrold's ambition to turn you into a natural optimist with a better life.' (Sunday Times Culture )

'The UK's leading life coach and possibly the most positive person alive'

'London's leading life coach'

'The can-do woman for the New Establishment'

'The Queen Bee of British life coaching'

'Helps you focus on your goals - and get there fast'

'A confidante to the powerful....people flock to Fiona'

Fiona Harrold's BE YOUR OWN LIFE COACH had great success with its powerfully inspiring message to take control of our lives and achieve our wildest dreams. Now, she shows us how in just 10 minutes each day we can accelerate towards attaining our goals. Follow her winning strategies and:



- Believe in yourself 100%

- Propel yourself into taking action

- Turn into a natural optimist

- Live a bigger, more interesting life



Fiona's is the winning formula to open the door to life's vast opportunities. Believe in yourself and others will too.

Fiona Harrold was brought up in Northern Ireland. From an early age, with the encouragement of her father, she immersed herself in the world of self-improvement. Since leaving Northern Ireland in the early eighties, she has single-handedly masterminded her own re-invention several times, transforming herself from political activist to New Age therapist to PR and Life Coach. She now runs a hugely successful Life Coaching agency, and is one of the most high-profile Life Coaches in the country. She regularly appears on TV (This Morning, Lorraine Live and a forthcoming BBC Cutting Edge documentary) and other media.

Before I begin I want to ask you why you have picked up this book. What attracted you to it? What do you want from it? What difference can I make to your life? What difference do you want me to make? Most importantly, what difference do you want to make to your life? Don’t for a moment think that you just want a good read. There are novels for that. No, the simple truth is that you want to enhance your life. You want to upgrade your lot. You want more of some things and less of others.

Certain breeds of human being are ever curious to refine themselves or their life that bit more. You are of this breed. I recognize you because I too am of that breed. And so are all my clients. From now on I will view you as an esteemed client – someone whom I admire and respect enormously because you have certain traits and characteristics that I value and find immensely attractive. You are my type of person. You are the type of person who quite simply wants to make the most of yourself and your life and be the best that you can possibly be. You are like a sponge, eager to absorb as much as you can from a book such as this to add value to yourself and your life and move up a notch or two. Above all, a dreary life is not for you. Whatever it takes, whatever the cost, you will not and could not settle for a dull, half-lived life. You will not shirk from the challenge of doing whatever it takes to be the person you really want to be and live the life you know you should be living. Giving up and giving in is just not an option. For you know that the very pursuit of your dreams makes life immediately more interesting. You have fun trying!

You already are this bright, shiny person. I certainly can’t make you something or someone that you aren’t already. But I can definitely make you make more of yourself. My talent is to make sure that you appreciate who you already are and that you live a life worthy of yourself. I do this with my clients, many of whom you’ll be reading about in the pages to come, and I’ll be doing it with you as well. By the end of this book and our journey together I want you to feel at least three inches taller than you are right now and to have developed some really tough muscles. Your backbone will be thicker and you will feel you have the guts for anything life throws at you. You are this person already. I just want you to notice and flex those muscles and attributes some more. And the more you use them the better shape you’ll be in. I sometimes illustrate this to a client by suggesting that they think of themselves as wearing a fabulous designer suit, a Versace, Armani or Donna Karan, a terrific cut with superb fabric. Yet the suit is a size or two too big and hangs off them somewhat. I want you to rise up to your full height, develop those muscles and fill that suit.

We are about to embark on a journey together to make your life even better than it is right now. Together we will take your life to the next level for you, whatever that looks like. There doesn’t even have to be anything really wrong with your life to want to make some changes and run an MOT on it. Even Plato – over 2000 years ago – knew that an unexamined life is an unlived life. I’ve yet to meet anyone, man, woman or child, who didn’t want to bring something new and fresh into their lives. I’ll always remember watching entrepreneur Richard Branson take part in the BBC programme, Question Time when he was bidding to run the National Lottery. One suspicious member of the audience asked him why he wanted to take over the lottery. Didn’t he have enough to do, she said, running Virgin airlines, Virgin railways, Virgin banking, and surely, she said, he didn’t need any more money, being a millionaire many times over, so why couldn’t he just retire to his private island and relax!

? After a measured pause he spoke very slowly and said that he of course didn’t need to do another day’s work in his life and as he was planning to turn all lottery profits over to charities, he wouldn’t make any money whatsoever if his bid was successful. He explained that strange though it may sound he simply wanted to run the lottery because he could do a lot of good with it. That in itself would give him immense satisfaction and he just wasn’t the type of person to sit around and do nothing. Neither are you. Even if you fantasize about having the finances of a Richard Branson, you would still itch to do something interesting. After your big break you’d want to get back into life again. Interesting people don’t give up on life, they just find something new, worthwhile and fun to do!