Barbara’s Book

Insights from 25+ years of coaching and counseling leaders — now available for you to read at your own pace.

Leadership Success in Spite of Stress: 20 Powerful Questions to Take You From Disaster to Master

Drawing on over two decades of coaching and counseling leaders through their most challenging moments, Barbara Jordan shares her proven framework for developing the inner qualities that make great leaders. Packed with real stories, practical exercises, and actionable insights.

Long hours, tight deadlines, demanding family, no time to exercise, eat and sleep well, or reflect. Does this sound familiar? In Achieve Success in Spite of Stress, leadership coach & trainer Barbara Jordan offers over 25 years of helping business leaders and professionals manage demanding work-life schedules. She’ll help you seek the balance that allows a fulfilling personal life and productivity on the job. This book is designed to help you understand (and channel) the need to achieve. It will help you work smarter. The hands-on, practical information in this book shows you how to manage your stress and time, evaluate your thinking and behavior, and challenge those self-defeating beliefs sabotaging your success. Get out of your own way and, finally, meet that long sought-after goal that seems beyond your reach!

Do you have these stress-producing habits?

• Trying to do as much as possible in the least amount of time?
• Refusing to ask for help?
• Constantly checking your watch, your clock, your email or voicemail?
• Feeling driven to improve your position or stockpile your achievements?
• Spreading yourself too thin?
• Having little time for recreation, relaxation, or self-care?
• Continually multi-tasking?
• Driving yourself and others mercilessly?
• Getting involved in multiple projects without finishing what’s already started?

With this book you will learn how to:

• Overcome the obstacles that block your success
• Pace yourself and learn how to delegate
• Create an inner dialogue that supports, empowers, and encourages you
• Surround yourself with supportive, not sabotaging people
• Plan, prioritize, and organize your life to meet deadlines
• Manage your time, your stress, your life
• Deal with constant change positively and productively
• Achieve and maintain balance in your life
• Preserve your confidence and control “under fire”

Available in paperback and Kindle editions.

Relax & Succeed Series: Audio-recordings

Professional-grade guided relaxation/success audio-recordings created by Barbara to support your coaching. Listen in a reclining position at bedtime and/or as you awaken, for approximately 24 minutes every night or most nights for 4-6 weeks to relax, reset, and rise!

Many books & information products are packed with information, tools, & techniques… as if techniques, alone, could transform you into a success. But this simply is NOT true! The fact is… to unlock your full “potential”, you need to address any underlying obstacles. If you want outer success, you must look at your inner world!

The trick is not to fill your head with more information. Instead, re-program your mind so that what you want to do/be/have is no longer “difficult” … but interesting, fun, & easy. The key is to get out of your own way!

This recording will help you get rid of negative, self-limiting, dis-empowering thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, assumptions, & conclusions. It will enable you to replace them with positive, productive thoughts and beliefs. It does this by taking you to a relaxed, dream-like state of mind in which you are more receptive to positively empowering self-help suggestions. This powerful scientific methodology can help you achieve your individual goals, effortlessly.

Here’s a relaxing mind “makeover” that can quickly transform you into the success you’ve always wanted to be. It will give you the attitudes needed to get to the next level in your life &/or your career. Access your inner most resources to achieve your goals. Just 20–30 minutes a day for 4-6 weeks is all it takes!

Nothing Replaces One-on-One Coaching

While our products support your journey, Barbara’s coaching programs offer the deepest, most transformative results. Start with a free consultation.