History of Personal Development and how Coaching became a profession:

Personal Development Timeline:

1859: Self-Help by Samuel Smiles

1894: Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

1899: A message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

1902: As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

1910: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles

1926: The riches Man in Babylon by George Clason

1927: My utmost for his Highest by Oswald Chambers

1936: Thing and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

1937: How to win friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

1952: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent peale

1956: The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

1958: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

1959: The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

1960: Paul J. Meyer founds Success Motivation Institute

1960: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone

1969: The Greatest Salesman in the Worl by Og Mandino

1989: The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen Covey

As published by Success Magazine, April/May 2008