"Amazing! This is what was missing in my coaching and in my life. Long before reading the final chapter, I was using the concepts with my clients and achieving incredible results."

Garry Schleifer, CPCC, President, ICF Toronto

"Coaching Into Greatness is a must read for any business professional seeking to improve performance. In my experience, the most critical issue that sabotages entrepreneurs is having a ‘scarcity' mindset instead of an ‘abundance' mindset. With her clear examples and straightforward style, Kim George will help business professional's position themselves for success in an ever changing world."

Mike Garrison, VP, The Referral Institute

"Catapult your business and life forward by reading this book. Kim's wisdom and generosity ooze off the pages. This is an opportunity to learn from a master. Be prepared for more solid, usable information than you've ever seen inside any one book."

Marcia Wieder, author, America's Dream Coach® and Founder, DreamCoachU.com

"Business owners and leaders need Coaching Into Greatness. If your team is not focused on the impact of scarcity on the bottom line, you are losing money, performance, productivity, and leadership. Coaching Into Greatness is a must-read for all leaders and managers. Practical and doable, it will bring the concept of abundance alive within your business."

Jay Fulcher, CEO, Agile Software

Coaching Into Greatness:
Chapter Summaries


Chapter One: A New Way of Being

  • How you show up in business equals how you show up in life
  • How you show up in life equals how you show up in business
  • Scarcity is simply a result of resisting who you are
  • Abundance is excercising the freedom to be who you are
  • A scarcity mentality creates Opportunity Cost
  • Abundance Intelligence™ is doing what you can do in any given moment

Chapter Two: Why Greatness?

  • Greatness is innate
  • Success is a byproduct of Living into your Greatness
  • Doing what you can do today is more powerful than waiting to do a great thing tomorrow
  • Greatness is not dependent on things, circumstances, or people outside of us
  • We are as great as we allow ourselves to be, and most of us don't allow ourselves to be much of anything at all

Chapter Three: Forgetting Who You Are

  • A pattern language is a way of describing reoccurring events
  • The pattern language of scarcity is made up of conditioned patterns and conditioned beliefs
  • The pattern language of abundance is made up of conscious patterns and conscious beliefs
  • A conditioned pattern is the culmination of a repeated series of actions and reactions that are based on and reinforce conditioned beliefs
  • A conscious pattern comes from repeated and consistent authentic action that is in alignment with our true nature

Chapter Four: Remembering Who You Are

  • All of our conditioned beliefs are beliefs we accepted by choice
  • You can't think your way out of scarcity
  • A Declaration is your public promise of how you will show up in the world
  • You are authentic when you are living your life according to the truth of who you are

Chapter Five: The Illusion of Not Enough

  • When you see yourself as not enough you are not trusting who you are
  • Fear is a loss of who you are
  • Self-Worth is trusting who you are
  • We are the only Catalyst for living the greatness that exists in us

Chapter Six: The Illusion of Comparisons

  • External Drivers cause you to focus on someone else's greatness
  • Greatness is orienting yourself around your Internal Drivers
  • Love people for who you are
  • Being abundant is a way of developing relationship equity
  • True freedom is breaking away from the conformity of conditioning

Chapter Seven: The Illusion of Struggle

  • Struggle is strictly overrated
  • The greatest form of resistance is resisting who you are
  • Flow, the Capacity to be who you are, is essential. Struggle is not.
  • Self-Expression is the manifestation of living who you are

Chapter Eight: The Illusion of Control

  • Control is an attempt to line up the world to meet our "shoulds"
  • You cannot give what you don't have
  • Any time we play a role that becomes an excuse for not doing what we can do, that role is a conditioned pattern of scarcity
  • Surrender happens when you're in action, doing all that you can do, and letting go of those things outside of your control

Chapter Nine: The Illusion of Time

  • We don't experience life by thinking about it
  • Time becomes a prison when it becomes to little or not enough
  • Distraction + Justification = Avoidance
  • Time is a choice
  • Desperation isn't referable
  • Actualization is a way to maximize the present and create the future
  • What happens to us in life doesn't hurt us, how we think about it does

Chapter Ten: The Illusion of Hope

  • Hope is the longing and wishing for things we think we don't have
  • You are the Significance you've been waiting for
  • Hope is not a strategy
  • The ROI of life is to be who you are

Chapter Eleven: The Illusion of Certainty

  • We expect life to come with a guarantee, but that very expectation is the Illusion of Certainty
  • Inquiry is moving from expert to student
  • Insanity = applying your "fixed reality" to an ever-changing world
  • Question your answers
  • The perfection is in life showing us the way

Chapter Twelve: Creating Abundance Intelligence™

  • The four-step Coaching into Greatness process moves us from the illusions to the abundance aptitudes
  • People with a high Abundance Intelligence™ have an Authentic Abundant Response to life – they have the ability to be who they are in the world when it matters most
  • The Difference of One is the profound impact one individual, idea, or event can have on the world when embraced abundantly
  • Abundance Intelligence™ is a pioneering new form of intelligence that enables people to do what they can do