by El | Mar 30, 2020 | Book reviews, Choice, Community, Emotions, Performance, Self-awareness, Uncategorized
The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga As virtually all of this book is in the form of dialogue between two persons, it was easy to read. This also made it easier to understand the points being made by the authors, as the characters clarify...
by El | Mar 13, 2020 | Book reviews, Habit, Mindfulness, Performance, Self-awareness
Atomic Habits by James Clear This is an extremely lean book; it’s almost almost pound-for-pound substance. It gets straight to the point and maintains interest with a steady flow of interesting knowledge that’s easy to consume. I can see care was taken to make sure...
by El | Oct 3, 2019 | Choice, Coaching, Performance, Self-awareness
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ellery Ng (@elng.coach) on Oct 2, 2019 at 5:12pm PDT “I have a resting bitch face”, one of my coachees told me recently, “It’s a known fact.” How DO you know you have a resting bitch face? Who did you hear it from?...
by El | May 30, 2019 | Book reviews, Choice, Performance
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science & Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen This book is easily one of the most practical and concise sources of knowledge about feedback – an icky, tricky thing for most people (and unpleasant at...
by El | May 16, 2019 | Book reviews, Coaching, Performance, Presence
The Prosperous Coach: Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients by Steve Chandler & Rich Litvin I wish every book could be as concise and to-the-point as this. It’s so concise that its content is easily absorbed even in audiobook format (which I...
by El | Oct 18, 2018 | Book reviews, Choice, Habit, Performance, Self-awareness
I thought this book was of the positive, self-help variety, but no. It helped me make concrete sense of how I may intervene on my willpower and procrastination, which are issues common with a number of my coaching clients… and I as well! This book is...
