I founded PERSONAL Solutions twenty years ago when I left academia to work full-time with people to know and live their potential in life, performances, relationships, and work. The name of my business came from my belief that all the answers people were seeking to challenges, problems and living their dreams were available to them, inside of them. That belief was confirmed over the years by my life coaching and sport psychology consulting with thousands of individuals. My belief about personal access to answers has now become a knowing that you and only you, have the power to create and succeed in your life, work and relationships. You have to take everything personal in terms of responsibility, choices, and self-trust. No matter what you want, don't want, or dream about, in the end it is always your personal solutions that will make it happen.

PERSONAL Solutions is focused on making life, challenges, and desires personal. As a business PERSONAL Solutions provides information, strategies, guidance and support for people who are willing to take their lives very personally including taking full responsibility for the choices and actions that can create the life they intend and deserve.

This work is personal for me too. I bring my experience, knowledge, wisdom, and expertise to every aspect of what PERSONAL Solutions offers from newsletters and books, to classes and individual coaching or consulting. This is a personal business operated in a very personal way focused on the personal experiences, needs and concerns of the people the business serves.

About Dr. Jane Miner

Jane Miner has been a teacher, athletic coach, administrator, life coach, writer and presenter for over thirty-seven years. She is the owner and founder of PERSONAL Solutions as well as the life coach and sport psychologist at the Green Valley Spa in St. George, Utah. She is also the owner of Performance Publications, a publisher of books and products on life and athletic performance success.

She began her career as a high school teacher and coach at Hillcrest High School in Midvale, Utah, upon completing her undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Two years later she completed a Masters Degree in Health Education and Athletic Training, also at BYU. During her five years at Hillcrest she began the girl's athletic program and at one time coached as many as twelve sports. Her teams won the first volleyball, basketball, and track state championships ever held in the state of Utah for girls and was a regional coach of the year and a finalist for national high school coach of the year.

The next ten years were spent at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, where she was a teacher, coach and administrator. In addition to coaching, she built the women's athletic program from three sports to eight sports and led efforts to fully implement full athletic opportunities for the women athletes. As a basketball coach she was a finalist for the Wade Trophy National Coach of the Year as well as an Intermountain Athletic Conference Co-Coach of the Year.

While at Weber State she became interested in sport psychology and began working on her doctorate in the psychosocial aspects of sport. After completing her degree and graduating from the University of Utah, she retired from athletic coaching and began full-time work in sport psychology. One year later she joined the faculty of the Exercise and Sport Science Department at the University of Utah to teach and direct the coaching education program, while also serving as a national faculty member for the American Sport Education Program. She also started working with the athletic teams in the athletics department, working with athletes and coaches. It was during this time she discovered life coaching, after realizing that a lot of the work she did with athletes, coaches, and students was so much about their lives away from athletics and school.

She left higher education to return to her sport psychology practice and begin a practice in life coaching. Soon after that she completed her life coaching professional training through CoachU, the largest coaching training program in the world. Moving her life coaching and sport psychology to phone and the Internet, she determined she could live anywhere she wanted with a warmer climate being ideal. That brought her to the desert of Southern Utah and the Green Valley Spa in St. George. At Green Valley, she teaches and leads book discussions, workshops and occassionally a week-long retreat. She meets individually with guests to coach them in changes, new directions, and how thoughts create behavior and choices. Her specialty is the mind, behavior and change.

Dr. Miner has written or co-written books, articles and book chapters in the areas of peak performance, sport law, group dynamics, and women in sport. Her most recent book is titled, The Mental Essentials: The Mental Skills Every Athlete Should Know and Use, is used by athletes, teams, coaches, and in university sport psychology classes. She also writes about life enhancement and discovering and living life plans, with her book in 2007 titled, The Guide: Knowing the Plan for Your Life. She is currently writing four other books.

Most recently she was awarded the Coach of Merit award by the Utah Sports Foundation for her years of service to coaching and the development of women's sports in Utah. She is also a member of the Utah Women's Sports Hall of Fame and has received a professional service award from the Utah Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Earlier she was awarded a National Pathfinder Award and Presidential Award from the National Association for Girl's and Women in Sport for her work in pioneering and promoting opportunities for women in sport.