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

Yesterday we started by looking at the posts that happened in January, so today we move onto:

February

Guest Posts

• “5 Google+ Features That Are Useful For Coaches” By Chris Chaves
• “Is it Wrong Not to Have a Goal?” By Louise Gillespie-Smith
• “Showing the way” by Kaitlyn Hatch
• “Spare Some Time for Coaching and Mentoring” By Beverley Ireland-Symonds

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

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

(Stephen Covey)

“We are what we believe we are.”

(C. S. Lewis)

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

(Anatole France)

“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)

“The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we achieve it.”

(Michael Angelo)

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

• Joe Kowan: How I beat stage fright
• Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
• James Geary: Metaphorically speaking
• Ash Beckham: We’re all hiding something. Let’s find the courage to open up

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:

• “BUILDING YOUR TEAM…..” by sports leadership coach DeAngelo Wiser
• “IF ONLY HORSES WERE MANAGERS” by Ar’nie Rozah Krogh
• “FLOW WITH CHANGE, GROW WITH CHANGE (DON’T RESIST, LET GO)” by HT Lee
• “ASSISTANT COACHES: WHAT MAKES THEM SPECIAL?” by sports leadership coach DeAngelo Wiser
• “Living With Your True Identity” by Lloyd Collett
• “Aceptar el Momento Presente” by Félix Fuenzalida (In Spanish)
• “Die Schatzkarte” by Wegvisor Shared by Heiko Andreas Müller (In German)
• “IF CHANGE IS SO GOOD, WHY DO WE STILL FEAR IT? (DEALING WITH CHANGE)” by HT Lee

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

Bonus posts:

• “I Did Not Know Best.” by Marie Yates
• “30 (MORE) Public Speaking Tips from an Actor & Professional Speaker” by Michael Port
• “My Fave Mindset List” by Kendall SummerHawk
• “What’s can you do about creative block?” by Molly Gordon
• “How success limits you” by Eric Klein
• “The 6 Essential Books on Change for Time-Crunched Managers” by Michael Bungay Stanier (Video)
• “Secret Ingredient for Success” by By CAMILLE SWEENEY and JOSH GOSFIELD (New York Times opinion piece)
• “Existential Angst & Why It’s Okay to Not Feel Okay” by Jordan Bates
• “Solopreneurs need systems and processes” by Michele Christensen
• “How to Consistently Have Clients by Always Marketing” by Fabienne Fredrickson
• “It’s Time to Put Your Strategy on a Diet” by Nick Tasler
• “Do people love you or hate you?” by Karen Williams
• “The Magic of Ending Early” by Lisa Sasevich
• “Why most coaches don’t make money from coaching“ by Chris Morris
• “Why Creative People Need to Be Eccentric” by Mark McGuinness
• “Three Books Certain to Increase Your Impact” by Michael Bungay Stanier
• “5 Words That Block Your Success (I Stopped Using Them All, Especially #3!)” by Frederique Murphy
• “Are You Addicted To Busyness?” by Lissa Rankin
• “3 Big Reasons You Wonder If You’ll Ever Be Good Enough” by Steve Errey
• “How to get your partner to support you in your business” by Stacey Martino
• “3 Money Boundaries to Have in Place to Grow Your Business” by Shelly Riutta
• “What to do when you’re caught up in a scary movie” by Molly Gordon
• “Should you teach the world a new word?” by Seth Godin
• “Are You In An Entrepreneurial Wormhole?” by Lisa Cherney
• “The Power To Elevate Your Life Starts With You!” by Joey Parker
• “How Millionaires Manage Their Time” by Jaime Tardy
• “How to Create a Mission Statement” by Janet Slack
• “Influencing the Difficult (or ‘Impossible’) to Convince” by Jonathan Altfeld
• “How Google Grades Employees, And How You Can Use The Same System At Your Company” by Jay Yarow
• “The Thought Revolution Manifesto – Chapter 3 The Vision (part 3)” by Jamie Smart
• “The One Thing You Need to Generate Great Ideas” by Tim Brown

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 Olivia Chapman

Coaching Confidence Chatter with Jane Minton

Missed January’s recap? You can read still read it here.

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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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