1) The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard (Author), Byron Larson

Thomas Leonard was the "father of personal coaching" and founder of Coach U, a virtual university that trains coaches from 30 countries. The book will help shape your life, career, and relationships to be more satisfying and profitable. It includes tips and self-tests. You can’t go wrong with this one.

2) Living Your Best Life: Work, Home, Balance, Destiny: Ten Strategies for Getting from Where You Are to Where You're Meant to Be by Laura Berman Fortgang

“With fresh insights and practical, powerful exercise, the author shows how to restore and revitalize the precious balance between work and home, life and career, and fulfill our highest destiny.” -- Harry Bloomfield, M.D. (author of Making Peace with Your Past and How to Survive the Loss of Love)

3) Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way by Rick Carson

If self-help books aren’t working, here is a creative yet realistic option for solving life issue. Through the metaphor of the “gremlin” (your negative inner voice), you’ll find fun ways to identify and remove the stubborn, self-defeating sides of your personality.

4) Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants by C. J. Hayden
“ This book not only tells you the absolute truth about landing new clients, but also can transform you from marketing amateur into a marketing genius. The beauty of its wisdom will be reflected in the beauty of your bottom line.” -- Jay Conrad Levinson (author of the Guerrilla Marketing book series)

5) Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life by Laura Whitworth,
Learn techniques to change your consulting skills into those necessary for personal and professional coaching. This book provides useful examples, tips, traps and sample dialogues. It includes a coach’s toolkit with worksheets, exercises and forms to use with clients.

6) Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern
Invaluable tips show you how to break through clutter and streamline their lives. Use tools to design a unique organizing plan based on your own individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs – a plan that will work with you rather than against it. This book will help you live the life you’re dreaming of.

7) The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction by Rebecca Z. Shafir
During these distracting times, we’re obsessed with multitasking, time, and speed, and we lose connection with others and ourselves. Poor listening results in unhappy marriages, sadness, burnout, dissatisfied customers, troubled kids, and malpractice law suits. This book teaches you how to filter out distractions and become a better listener.

8) Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter by Elaine st James,
The more difficult life becomes, the more we crave simplicity. Whether it’s work, relationships, health, finances, or leisure time, this book can help you learn to relax and improve the quality of your life. If you’re feeling overpowered, overextended, and overwhelmed, this book has 100 helpful steps for creating a simple and satisfying way of life.

9) Take Time for Your Life by Cheryl Richardson
Filled with useful exercises, checklists and personal stories, this book shows you how to step back, regain control, and make conscious decisions about the future you want. When you time for your life, you will live a life you love.

10) Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose by John Whitmore
The author writes, “Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being.” Chapters include coaching for personal meaning, work purpose, corporate values and culture to GROW (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) people, performance and purpose together.