Over the remainder of this year I’ll be recapping what’s been happening here on Coaching Confidence, the coaching blog during 2014.

Today we start by looking at the posts that happened right at the start of the year.

January

Guest Posts

• “Getting Your Client’s to RACE towards their dreams in 2014 (beyond the second week of January!)!” by Charlotta Hughes
• “Rapport and beyond….” by Lynda Russell-Whitaker
• “Can Counselling and Coaching Work together?: Yes, they can complement each other” by Julie Crowley
• “When bits and pieces come together in a full picture” by Veronika Lennartsson
• “My experience growing up and how it has influenced me as a coach” By Anthony Goss

Most RT’d quote on our Twitter feed each week:

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

(Eleanor Roosevelt)

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

(Jim Rohn)

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

(Napoleon Hill)

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

(Nido Qubein)

TED Talk’s

Each Tuesday we share a different TED Talk.

You’ll notice that some talks will be obviously directly related to personal development and how you use coaching. On other occasions they will be talks where the topics appear more abstract, they’ll be here to prompt new thoughts by coming at something from a different direction – or just because they struck me as interesting/ funny etc

• “Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude”
• “Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself”
• “Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify”

Blog posts for coaches from around the web

How do posts appear on this list?

The list is created using two different sources:

Source One

Each Monday on this blogs Facebook page I usually issue the following question and invitation:

“Have you written/seen a blog post in the past week that you’d think is of interest to coaches and that you’d like to share?”

Many of the posts shared on Facebook will then appear on this list.

Source Two

I personally add posts that have attracted my eye for one reason or another. Sometimes this will be because it fits with a request from a reader about what the want to read more about. Sometimes it’s a post that covers a topic I know from working with clients that coaches will find valuable and/or interesting. Then there are also the posts that just really resonate with me personally.

Whilst to some extent I’m reliant on what’s written each week and what I see, I attempt to provide a mix in this list of different approaches. Some of the posts deal with logistics and answering “how to” style questions, some will be coaches sharing their own experiences and approaches and some posts will fall more in a spiritual category.

I’ll guess that because of the broad spectrum of the list they’ll be some posts you love and others that really don’t appeal to you. My suggestion is to read the posts you’re drawn towards – it’s here to inform, entertain and provide value not to create lots of thought about which you do and don’t like.

Posts shared on our Facebook Page:

• “Training Staff to Switch Off” by Charlotte Walker
• “The Tortoise and the Hare” by Dawn Walton
• “Set Reachable Goals!” by basketball coach Chris Blackmore
• “Coaching philosophy” by community sports advisor Jeff Mitchell
• “Any A-hole Can Be a Coach” by Carmen Willenbring Sullo
• “IS YOUR TEAM LISTENING …” by sports leadership coach DeAngelo Wiser
• “Have An Unreasonably Great New Year (Video)” by HT Lee
• “Why can’t we all just get along?” by sports Community Coaching Manager, Coach Keelty
• “It’s All About Feeling Good & How Cultivating Abundance Can Help” by Ashley Slaughter
• “Getting Through the Valleys” by basketball coach Chris Blackmore
• “Is your newsletter providing enough value to your subscribers? (Plus, how I’m adding value to mine!)” by Michelle Kirsch
• “The Guru who did not believe in Guru’s – A Coaches Perspective” by Steven H. Kiges, shared by Jenny Davies
• “Enthusiasm – The Fuel Of Your Biggest Goals” by HT Lee
• “A Quick Lesson on Writing Titles and Subject Lines that Work to Build Your Business” by Heather Cottrell
• “What is so hard about Blocking Out?” by basketball coach Chris Blackmore
• “Develop Great Players – Tell Them Mistakes Are Required” by soccer youth coach blog “NeedMoreCones” (shared by Pumpherston United FC)

These are a few posts that also attracted my attention from around the Internet

Bonus posts:

•  “What are you carrying into the New Year?” by Eric Klein
• “7 Mantras for Becoming a Money Magnet in the New Year” by Ali Brown
• “NLP & Time Distortion: We Are the Meaning Makers” by Jonathan Altfeld
• “Handling Sad Holidays” by Mandy Evans
• “Wait, What’s That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wandering” by Drake Baer
• “What’s your word for 2014?” by Nicky Kriel
• “50+ Better Questions To Ask Than How To Be More Productive” by Charlie Gilkey
• “How To Receive Criticism With Grace” by Lissa Rankin
• “3 Powerful Habits to Set You Up For BIG Success in 2014″ by Michele Pariza Wacek
• “Five Surefire Ways to Draw the Audience to You Like a Magnet” by Rochelle Togo-Figa
• “10 Creative Rituals You Should Steal” by Sean Blanda
• “27 Golden Nuggets of Business Wisdom” by Milana Leshinsky
• “Hypothesis explains that sleep is the price we pay for learning” by University of Wisconsin at Madison
• “9 Easy Headline Formulas” by Ali Brown
• “To-Do Lists Don’t Work” by Daniel Markovitz
• “Planning to Avoid the Hit or Miss in Your Business” by Monica Shah
• “7 Apps to Help You Achieve Your Goals and Build New Habits” by Michael Hyatt
• “How to Make Things Happen” by Les Mckeown
• “I Lived a Day According to Ben Franklin’s Schedule and It Changed My Life” by Tim Goessling
• “The Unlikely Success Ingredient: A 3-Step Process Inspired By Walt Disney” by Frederique Murphy
• “Break Out Of Perfection Prison!” by Emily Pereira
• “Measuring nothing (with great accuracy)” by Seth Godin
• “Random Time Management” by Mark Forster
• “An Experiment in Managing Time, Handling Money, and Following Inner Wisdom” by Michael Neill

Coaching Confidence Chatterbox interview

An interview with a fellow coach where the questions are generated using the origami chatterbox/fortune teller game:

Coaching Confidence Chatterbox with Emma Fowler.

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