I had a funny experience yesterday. I’d just finished a very late night drafting session on a coaching guide for confident blog writing. This is something I’ve been grappling with for a while now. I kept on picking it up and putting it down. The ideas and the words were there but I couldn’t find the right shape, structure or format. Part of the struggle was finding a way to ‘stay true’ to the principles of coaching: not giving advice but asking questions, getting the client to find the answers.
Anyway, I think I’ve finally cracked it – found the right format, the right tone, kept it short, simple and (I hope) of value to my readers. Once the shape was there I couldn’t wait to finish it, which was why I was up so late. I’d just dotted the last i and crossed the last t, saved my changes, when up popped a message from my news reader. "It can be done, honest!" it said. Spooky!
The message turned out to be a perfectly timed (for me) post from Anna Farmery at the Engaging Brand, with some words from a verse on doing what ‘can’t be done’. When the doubts strike – your own and other people’s – Anna reminds us to
find the inspiration to do it anyway.
Thanks Anna for sending me just the right words at just the right time…
For those of you interested in confident blog writing, you can find the ‘coaching tips’ guide at my Confident Writing site.
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