“To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating.
It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear.
Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.
But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.”
(Robert C. Murphy)
Did you make lots of exciting plans for your coaching at the start of this year?
If you did, and as we approach the end of the first month of 2013, how are you doing with those plans?
I’ve had several interactions with existing coaches over the past few weeks where at some stage the conversation has turned to how they are finding 2013 so far. Some are having a great time and find that exciting things are happening either as part of a bigger plan or because of an even better opportunity that’s come out of the blue.
Others are busy doing what they think they “should” be doing and focusing on what they are suppose to be concentrating upon. Yet they feel that they don’t seem to be getting anywhere. Disappointment, frustration and draining motivation are all elements I’ve come across for those honest enough to share that’s how they feel.
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
(Virginia Woolf)
This week’s TED talk is:
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
Clip length: 18 mins 59 secs
Prefer to watch on TED.com? In that case you’ll need to click here.
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these ‘It might have been.’”
(John Greenleaf Whittier)
I thought I’d start to share each Monday the most RT’d quote from the blogs twitter account over the previous week.
Last week the one quote that was RT’d the most was:
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
(Jim Rohn)
Tweeted on 25th January
The second most RT’d tweet was:
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”
(Peter T Mcintyre)
Tweeted on 21st January
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.
(For those of you as geeky as I am and wondering what tool I’m using to measure individual RT’s it’s www.twitonomy.com)
“There is no beginning of time, only beginning of thought.”
(Byron Katie)
Each Monday on this blogs Facebook page I 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?”
At the end of each week I will be posting a recap of a selection of the links shared that Monday on our Facebook page.
These are a few posts that also attracted my attention:
Want your post included next week?
If you have a post that you think will be of interest to coaches take part in tomorrow’s Monday invite and leave the details on our Facebook page.
Whilst it’s lovely for posts to be sent to me via twitter, the nature of a tweet means that it can easily be overlooked when this post is being compiled at a later time. Please leave links in one place, ie our Facebook page so they can be easily shared.