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My standards are apparently too high. I have to measure life coaches and business coaches against the late, great Dr. Leo Buscaglia - inspirational, dynamic, eloquent, informed, scholarly, documented exhilarating. I grew up listening to his 1969 lecture to teachers in Pennsylvania - over and over for years. I bought the books. We communicated by mail. As he often said - Wow. Sadly, this book has none. The book is basically a coaching almanac - 365 days, each beginning with a trite, superficial quote ("Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much" - Helen Keller), and an explanation and assignment below. Usually there is a fictional character who took the wrong path: "Jenny started reading this book a few months ago, but she stopped short at around day 20. Today she is not happy." Poor Jenny. She didn't drink the Kool-Aid. The basic (unstated) message is that you are the CEO of your own private company, and you must take action every day, to get productivity out of the workforce - you. But instead of that statement, we get a year's worth of clichés, homilies, proverbs, childish precociousness and misguided direction. Follow it literally and you will be a wretched dysfunctional failure, totally out of sync with the world and unable to cope with the day to day necessities of life. But you will have a full, if useless journal to refer to. The book reads as if it had been written in six weeks. The author tosses off a few glib, simplistic, misguided instructions and directions and moves on to the next assignment. Too easy. It provided one laugh, on the last day of the year, when it congratulated me for getting to Day 356. Pretty much sums it up. Despite all the five star ratings, presumably from the author's many well-satisfied clients, I found the book totally uninspired and of no use.