The end is nigh.
It's almost here I'm singing songs which means we're almost finished.
And yeah I should probably just stick to my day job shouldn't I.
What do you reckon go.
I think so.
Yeah.
You think I should.
Is the singer.
The two of us.
Isn't she kind of yeah kind of a little bit kind of singer um the dancer.
Listen this actually brings us to the final section stage of this course and there's no more teaching
there's not.
This is just the section The course is really just to wrap things up in this video in particular.
I actually just want to highlight and remind you of the main books that I've met they have recommended
through the course up until now it's taken me a long long time and many many hours of practice to really
develop the insights that I've developed over the years.
Guess what.
There's nothing stopping you from getting yourself out there and developing the same depth of insight
and understanding.
All right who knows at some point in the future I might even meet you at some sort of world changing
Summit event.
Someone like that who knows I am the first book that I would like to share with you and recommend and
I don't think I've actually mentioned this throughout the course.
It's a book called The Element by a gentleman named Mr. Sir Ken Robinson.
No Sir Ken Robinson.
He's an English guy who's been massively influential over the last decade and really playing an active
role in reforming the way in which information is delivered and received.
He is really actively engaged in making changes in the education system here throughout the UK but also
over in the States.
Ken Robinson has a couple of fantastic TED talks just called the element.
This book is a very very simple read as a book of stories and that will really really inspire you.
If you are stuck in terms of feeling we're not quite sure on your direction of what you're going to
do next or what your niche is going to be or something like this and this book just as a book of stories
showing you how it is that people enter into their element in life through acknowledging that which
they're passionate about that which they're naturally good at.
And then just simply make a decision to change taking action committing to something taken stock footage
and junk so and so forth.
Fundamentally doing something about it very much action orientated so can I just pass this over to my
my my helpful assistant.
Thank you very much Karen.
The next book I must reference.
All right.
One of my all time heroes one of my favorite man in the whole world.
Obviously this guy's dead.
Mr. Carl Rogers the founding father of Paris incentive therapy which went on to become what we know
today is as counselling right.
He even coined the term.
This is a book called on becoming a person pretty much one of Carl's main life works.
Very much focusing on on identity and how it is that we not just self actualize but actually become
the kind of people who we are made to be.
It's a massively insightful book it's one book that when I read it a wished that I'd read years earlier.
What you'll find if you read this book is that many of the ideas in this book I've just kind of drawn
and from the book and have pretty much built upon expanded upon which just kind of allows us to acknowledge
that idea that knowledge builds upon knowledge ideas build upon ideas in the same way that foundations
that I'm living today through courses like this are pretty much is building upon the foundations that
guys like Carl Rogers lay the road about 60 or 70 years ago.
Another fantastic book is an easy read.
I did highlight this one in section two of the course.
I think it was Man's Search for Meaning by a gentleman named Mr. Victor Frankl.
No there's a little section of this book here.
There's when I read not fear is fascinating.
This book is pretty much and are pretty much tells a story office of fixtures experience of the World
War to Nazi concentration camps in Poland and the.
The wicked and evil
actions that he'd been in receiving and off other human beings how how wicked some human beings can
be towards other fellow human beings.
Victor Victor says when he was coming into this state of revelation an awakening if you like and he
says that I would strictly deny that one search for a meaning to his existence or even his doubt that
in every case is derived from a results in any disease existential frustration is in itself neither
pathological nor pathogenic a month's concern.
Even his despair at times over the worth of wildness of life is an exit is on existential distress but
is by no means a mental disease.
No.
I wondered what would happen if this gentleman here who had really been dragged to hell and back through
the extent of his lifetime.
I wonder how he would interact and communicate with some of today's mental health professionals who
are so quick and other men to assign labels and all sorts of complex medical terminologies on to young
people who go in to identify with these things.
Don't get me started all right.
But this book is a fantastic story.
Off of a man who drew meaning from the most adverse of life experiences.
No I'm going to introduce here a book that maybe some people's cup of tea might not be everyone's cup
of tea.
As aware.
Let's talk about Death Over Dinner All right.
It's an interesting idea.
A little bit abstract to say the least.
No.
This book is pretty much a book of questions that the author Michael had encourages people to host dinner
events and then discuss these questions over.
All right.
So some of the questions if I can just find the page here whereas it just bear with me.
So question number one.
Oh my goodness I can't even find what I'm looking for here.
Current.
Any idea of where these questions are.
Here we go.
Question number one if you only had 30 days left to live how would you spend them.
How would you spend your last day.
How would you spend your final hour.
Question 2 If there is an excess of medical invent intervention at the end of life do you agree to disagree.
Have you even ever considered this.
Do you believe in an afterlife.
If so why.
If not why not.
What is the most significant end of life experience of which you've been a part of.
No.
There's a right about 15 questions in this book and some of them are provoke a little bit more reflection
than others but what I found when I read this book because it just kind of reminded me of the main overriding
life vision that I've set for myself years earlier remember that life vision and goal setting section
when we look at how it is we want to be remembered once we're gone and this is a book of questions that
can really provoke us to think from that kind of perspective.
Remember the better we get to practicing something the more apparently better we become so considering
life and on to the next year of our life in light of the end can sometimes really serve us in terms
of enabling us to make better more effective values based decisions today.
All right.
So take it leave it you might like it you might not but I want to recommend it anyway nonetheless and
a life coaching course and of this extent this level of comprehension certainly would not be complete
without recommending the works of this great man Mr. Steve Kobe and Steve Kobe died.
I think it was back in 2010 7 or 8 I think it was and I think I mentioned earlier on in the course and
I got news of Steve's death just not long after I had to start reading this book for the first time
many of the stories that I've told through this book have actually drawn from and from from this man
as well.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
It's a book of principles that we want to be relating and applying to ourselves first and foremost us
as coaches and because once we've apply these principles to ourselves they obviously then service and
give us the insight the understanding to share them and guide other people through the same process.
The last two books I want to give reference to another one of my life heroes who at time of filming
this course is actually still alive Mr. Gerald Egan who I do believe is in Scotland today or tomorrow
and I'm hoping to meet him.
All right our hope is to see him again.
I'm not sure if he's still here or whether he was just passing through Jerry's one of these guys very
very hard to pin down right.
If you blink you'll miss him.
All right.
I think he's actually come across here to meet Callum.
I think I mentioned Callum earlier on he's one of the guys in our team who makes stuff look really nice.
Well I think he's come across as Peter Cullen about getting a website that I'm not sure.
I don't think he wants to speak to me this time round but I'm going to recommend one of his books.
Nonetheless working the shadow site.
No this isn't one of Jerry's most popular books but it really gives us a framework if you like for take
stock assess ourselves.
Stage four of the seven step seven stage cushion framework that I mentioned in the two sections ago
and this is about us checking ourselves before we wreck ourselves or wreck other people in the process.
It's about us giving ourselves a checkup from the neck up asking the tougher questions of life.
What part of my playing and the demise of my relationships were part of my playing and and the the state
of my bank accounts or the state of my business or the impact that I'm making in society rather than
us living a life where we point our fingers eight words and blame everyone else for why our lives are
the way they are we get a little bit more effective at pointing those low fingers within the shadow
side.
The part of us that not everyone wants to admit that they have what lurks in the darkness.
And last but not least and the skilled helper I've given a reference to the Spook quite quite a few
occasions over the course Sam.
I've actually read two versions of this book right the way through and the last time I spoke to Jared
he told me off for not having read right the way through his latest version and there's one of these
things I will get round to.
I've read the book a couple of times I've got a pretty good just off what he talks about where he's
coming from but to be honest with you and because of the agreement that and came too with his publisher
many many years ago and this book can actually be quite an expensive one to purchase if you go in for
a brand new copy.
So what I would urge you to do if you are looking to invest in a book like this go to Amazon or some
of the second hand book sites where you can pick up second hand versions perhaps some of the older versions
like this is the seventh version you can get version two three four and four maybe a couple a pound
or a couple of dollars something like this but this gives you a fantastic overview of the helping framework
that will really really help you to grow in your understanding and really appreciate much of what I've
shared through this core so that's your hallmark.
That's your recommended reads or if you do want to go on to become a highly effective life coach and
other than this I think we're ready for wrapping the course up are recurrent.
I think so yeah I think so so and I look forward to seeing you again in the last the final video of
the course where we'll share with you a few words of encouragement and then we'll send you off on your
merry way.