Free Stuff
As Health Coaches, expanding our knowledge and learning new information is very important to us. We are constantly learning new information and discovering resources to improve our skills to provide you with the best possible health and wellness information available.
There are lots of interesting and informative things available out there. Just a few of them are listed here. As we learn of new things, they will be added.
If you know of things that should be on any of these lists, please let us know.
This page is divided into three parts:
FREE STUFF – As the name implies, these resources are available at no cost. Enjoy.
QUOTES – This section contains a number of quotes we find helpful and enjoyable, and we hope you do, too.
OTHER RESOURCES – These resources are not free, but we wanted to make you aware of them in case some of them might be helpful to you.
Free Stuff
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- Subscribe to HealthCoachTraining’s Health Tip of the Day, sent to your email address. These are short, informative, thought-provoking tips that may get you to thinking about little changes you can make that you may not have thought of.
- Free Recipes and cooking tips
- Live to 100 has an interesting 40-question quiz then calculates your projected length of life. (by the way, mine came out to age 103!)
- SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to information about self-improvement, personal growth and self-help on the internet. It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other websites on the world-wide web.
- Authentic Happiness contains many self-assessments you may find useful.
- Peer Resources is a leading authority in North America on peer helping coaching and mentor program development support and consultation.
- Personal Growth The following sites are used by many for personal growth.
- Check the validity of rumors or reports
Quotes
- “Psychotherapy is about helping people heal their wounds, and Coaching is about helping people achieve the highest level of their fulfillment or happiness or success, whether they’re wounded or not.” Phil Towle, psychotherapist and life coach.
- “Recent surveys have shown that more and more executives and managers are seeking coaching for increased self-awareness, a more balanced life, better goal setting and less stress.” Taken from the jacket of the book Co-Active Coaching, which is a resource we use in our coaching practice.
- “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.” Albert Einstein. - “A baby makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.” ~anonymous
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
- “One today is worth two tomorrows.” Ben Franklin
- “If you can’t feed 1,000 people, then feed one.” Mother Teresa
- “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” Mahatma Gandhi
- “Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.” Unknown
- “Be a ‘go-giver’ rather than a ‘go-getter’. Always look for ways to put in before you start thinking of ways to take out. The very best way to network and build your relationships is to constantly look for ways to help other people achieve their own goals. The more you give of yourself without expecting something in return, the more rewards will come back to you in the most unexpected sources.” Brian Tracy
Definition: APHORISM: A SHORT, POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE OR CLEVER OBSERVATION OR A GENERAL TRUTH; ADAGE
And here’s a sample list of aphorisms:
- The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
- Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
- If you don’t have a sense of humor, you probably don’t have any sense at all.
- Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
- A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you’re in deep water.
- How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
- Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
- Why is it that, at class reunions, you feel younger than everyone else looks?
- Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
- No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
- There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
- There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 a.m., such as it being a right number.
- No one ever says ‘It’s only a game.’ when their team is winning.
- I’ve reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
- Be careful reading the fine print. There’s no way you’re going to like it.
- The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
- Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? And rap music will be the Golden Oldies!
- Money can’t buy happiness — but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a sub-compact.
- Always be yourself, because the people that matter, don’t mind and the ones that mind, don’t matter.
Other Resources
This list contains helpful resources that are not free but may be just what you’re looking for.
** Resources will be added to this list as they are identified
