Over the remainder of this year I’ll be recapping what’s been happening here on Coaching Confidence, the coaching blog during 2013.

If you missed the recaps so far click on the relevant month to catch up: January, February, March, April, May, June and July.

Today we turn our attention to:

August

Guest Posts

 “Why do we need friends?” By Jan Read

In the first guest post in August Jan Read shares some thoughts around something dear to her heart.

“Call Yourself A Coach?” By Judy Rees

“How do you get clients?” is a question I see and hear asked a lot. In this guest post Judy Rees shares her experience and knowledge.

“Leadership: Time to Revise the Sink or Swim Approach” By Fiona Rutherford

In the next guest post Fiona Rutherford shares on the topic of leadership.

“Growing your client list” By Ben Morton

Ben Morton shares his experience and knowledge in a post that provides an answer to one of the “how to” questions that so many coaches have when they start their coaching business.

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

• “We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them discover it within themselves.” (Galileo Galilei)
• “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” (Steve Jobs)
• “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” (Denis Waitley)
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” (Mark Twain)

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

• Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?
• Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head
• Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
• Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

Posts from around the Internet

Posts shared on our Facebook page on Monday 29th July 2013:

• “Making mountains out of mole hills” by Alison Smith
• “SEVEN THINGS I’VE OBSERVED WHILE OUT OF COACHING” by basketball coach Rich Hoyt
• “The Copernican Revolution – Leading Revolutionary Change” by HwaiTah Lee
• “What a LGBT day! Equal Marriage in England and Wales” by Joe Standerline
• “Reflection as a Coach Development Tool” by sports coach Jeff Mitchell
• Youarn Bell shared 2 posts, “Making Your Choices above the Line” and “Grow Up and Become Responsible”

These are a few posts that also attracted my attention either personally or because of readers requests to read more on a particular subject…

Bonus posts:

• “The opposite of anxiety” by Seth Godin
• “Are you letting yourself off the hook?” by Karen Williams
• “How to Lean into Discomfort (and Un-stick Your Stuck Karma)” by Eric Klein

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Posts shared on our Facebook page on Monday 5th August 2013:

• “Speaking with confidence” by Alison Smith
• “Your Natural Mental Wellbeing – Why You Think Too much” by HwaiTah Lee
• “Laying the foundation for Leadership” by sports coach DeAngelo Wiser
• “The Trouble of ‘Why’ and How to Avoid It.” by Youarn Bell
• Baseball coach Kyle Nelson shared his blog

These are a few posts that also attracted my attention either personally or because of readers requests to read more on a particular subject…

Bonus posts:

• “Open Up To New Pathways” by Dylan Schmidt
• “How to Deliver Great Content to Attract Clients” by Fabienne Fredrickson

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Posts shared on our Facebook page on Monday 12th August 2013:

• “Monday, Monday….”by Charlene Tops
• “The 9 Keys to an Achievable Outcome” by Youarn Bell
• “COACHING A SUCCESSFUL CEO” by Sofie Varrewaere
• “Perspective” by tennis coach Christopher Williams
• “Developing a School Leadership Coaching Team” by Charlotte Randall
• “EIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF A “LINCHPIN”” by basketball coach Rich Hoyt
• “Coaching and Development: The Art of Managing Talent by Charlotte Waller

These are a few posts that also attracted my attention either personally or because of readers requests to read more on a particular subject…

Bonus posts:

• Coach Michael Neill has just spent 10 days visiting the Deak Kumpa orphanage in Laos – Read his daily account of the trip via his Facebook page (starting Aug 2nd)
• “So When Exactly Should My Business Be Profitable?” by Monica Shah
• “When It´s Okay to Quit” by Michele PW
• “NLP: ‘Associated’ vs ‘Dissociated’ In Language” by Andy Smith

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Posts shared on our Facebook page on Monday 19th August 2013:

• “5 Actions of Coaches Who Care” by basketball coach Rich Hoyt
• “One Simple Question to Help You Achieve Your Goals” by Youarn Bell
• “How to improve your public speaking” by Shaun Humphries

These are a few posts that also attracted my attention either personally or because of readers requests to read more on a particular subject…

Bonus posts:

• ‘”Do you have three minutes?” The conservation of mental bandwidth’  by Seth Godin
• “Three rules to handle client cancellations” by Fabienne Fredrickson