Daily Archives: 18 December 2014


2014 Blog review – January 4

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 post

Guest Posts

 

Most RT'd quotes last week on @thecoachingblog

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)

Tuesday

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 ;-)

Posts

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:

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

Bonus posts:

Chatterbox

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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The most popular quote from our twitter account from week 50 of 2014:

Most RT'd quotes last week on @thecoachingblog

Each Thursday I share the most RT’d quote(s) from the blogs twitter account over the previous week.

Last week the most RT’d tweet was:

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Tweeted on 14th December

The quote with the next highest amount of RT’s was:

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”

(J A Barker)

Tweeted on 12th December

thank you

Many thanks to everyone who shared the quotes above and the other quotes from last week. I know that there are various aspects that can influence if a quote attracts your attention – if you saw the tweet, personal style, if it speaks to something happening in your life at that moment etc.

Which quote do you prefer?

(For those of you as geeky as I am and wondering what tool I’m using to measure individual RT’s this week I’ve been playing with www.twitonomy.com)