Sid Walker
Sid Walker is a pioneer, an innovator, and a seeker of empowering solutions to the challenges we face in sales and communication. By age twenty-eight, Sid had Fortune 500 clients as an executive outplacement coach. Hearing a call to expand his coaching skills, Sid found New York Times best-selling author Dr. Cherie Carter Scott, who is considered the mother of coaching. Sid was certified as a coach by her training company, Motivation Management Service (www.theMMS.com) in 1982.
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Living in the Zone, I am a peak performance coach from an intuitive/spiritual perspective. I learn alot from coaching and need to write a book after a few years to share what I have learned.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I think negative thoughts are a total waste of time.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I Ching by Carol Anthony, The End of Death by Nouk Sanchez, Books by Wallace Wattles
What are you working on now?
A sales book on how to overcome the mental barriers to mega success in sales.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I have done alot with Amazon for years, modest success. But it has gotten to expensive to the key words thing. I have sold over $1mm of books at the back of the room as a speaker.
Which Websites you like most to promote your book
ConquerCallReluctance.come (my website) otherwise none
Do you have any advice for new authors?
It's hard to make passive income from writing a book unless you are lucky.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Gandhi success formula: Burning passion, total detachment.
What are you reading now?
Don't Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
What’s next for you as a writer?
Next book is on how the ego is really a self-sabotage machine.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
I Ching, The End of Death, Second Coming of Christ by Yogananda, Books by Eric Butterworth