Quotes

The Quotable Coach book now available (thank you for your help!)

July 8, 2014 By Barry

I’m thrilled to announce that my book The Quotable Coach: Daily Nuggets of Practical Wisdom is now available.

If you’ve been waiting eagerly for this announcement, here’s where you can get a hot-off-the-press copy:

Ebook: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, or your local Amazon store.

If you’re purchasing the paperback version via my CreateSpace eStore, enter the code 42E47C9N for a 10% discount.

Many thanks to all of you who helped shape this book, voting and offering your feedback on the title and cover design. Thank you too for reading and supporting The Quotable Coach, whether you’ve been getting these emails for a couple of days or a couple of years.

If you’d like to know more about the book, which is an edited compilation of 365 of the best quotes from The Quotable Coach (so far), you can get all the details on The Quotable Coach website here.

Quotching: Coaching Through Powerful and Inspiring Quotes

May 20, 2013 By Barry

I just got back from a conference where we were encouraged to create new and different approaches to accomplish our goals.

One thing we learned is that to create a strong brand, it’s helpful to have your own unique word. Given my love of quotes and my love of coaching, I came up with the word quotching, which is simply coaching through the use of powerful and inspiring quotes.

I have registered the domain www.quotching.com and will be creating a site there.

Your Help Needed!

The Quotable Coach currently has over 600 subscribers, but I want to get these 30-second nuggets of inspiration and motivation out there for an even larger audience.

If you were me, what creative, innovate, or novel approaches would you use to bring these 250+ quotes (so far) to more people?

Please leave a comment below to let me know your ideas.

The Quotable Coach Reaches 100 Quotes

September 18, 2012 By Barry

Back in July, I announced that my project The Quotable Coach had passed the 50 quote mark.

Today, The Quotable Coach has reached the 100 quote milestone. Each Monday through Friday, over 300 people just like you receive:

A quote, related to business or life
A short commentary, to draw out a particular theme from the quote
An exercise, to help you apply the quote to your own life

A week after being sent out by email, the quotes are published on The Quotable Coach website. Why not take a look at some of them now?

If you enjoy reading them, consider signing up to receive quotes by email (in the website’s sidebar) so that you get future quotes directly into your mailbox. That way, you can easily save them, print them, and share them with others.

Barry Demp on OC Talk Radio – Live Today!

August 16, 2012 By Barry

Later today, I’ll be interviewed by Doug Gfeller of OC Talk Radio about The Quotable Coach. You can listen in here at OC Talk Radio, 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific.

If you haven’t heard about my project The Quotable Coach before, you may want to take a look at the website and join the mailing list. Make sure you listen live today, to hear all about it too.

If you’re a coach yourself, you’ll definitely want to listen in. I’ll also be talking with Doug about my business practices: how I customize my coaching programs for a variety of client groups, and why I give away so much material (including the quotes, and my workbooks).

Here’s the link again, so that you can listen in today at 7pm Eastern / 4pm Pacific:

OC Talk Radio

The Quotable Coach: Over 50 Quotes Already!

July 16, 2012 By Barry

I am delighted to announce that my new project The Quotable Coach is going very well. We’ve now sent out over 50 quotes by email – with many more in the pipeline.

When you join the email list (completely free), you’ll receive an email every weekday with:

A quote, usually from a famous individual
A short commentary, to draw out a particular theme from the quote
An exercise to help you apply the quote to your own life

Each email is designed to take under a minute to read. The emails arrive at 7.30am Eastern time, so that you can start off your day with a few moments of quiet thought and reflection.

A week after being sent out by email, the quotes are published on The Quotable Coach website: why not browse through them now? If you like what you see, you can join the email list instantly by entering your details in the sidebar of the site.

My Newest Project: The Quotable Coach

May 14, 2012 By Barry

Click the play button to listen to me speaking about my newest project, The Quotable Coach. This is an excerpt from my recent appearance on The Coaching Show with host Christopher McAuliffe. The audio lasts 1.35 minutes. If you prefer, you can read the transcript below instead.

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Christopher: Let’s talk about a new project you’ve got going, called The Quotable Coach.

Barry: Well, that’s a pet project of mine. I actually purchased the domains TheQuotableCoach.com and QuotableCoach.com three years ago, because I intended to write the great American novel. Unfortunately my busy schedule prevented me from really digging in, but for the better part of the last 8 – 10 years, I have collected quotes and I probably have 5,000 to 10,000 of them.

I consider them brilliant pearls of wisdom. I love to read them because they’re quick nuggets – and I think that’s the way people are getting information these days, in little bite-sized chunks. I like to savor them, think about them, and go a little deeper.

So my thought was, maybe I could take some of the best and brightest minds of today and yesterday and critique and dig into some of those quotes in a way that might be relevant and useable today, and give the reader an exercise to take that idea and that concept into their life. That’s what I’ve been doing. TheQuotableCoach.com just went up this past week and I’ll be trying to get something up there every single day, Monday through Friday.

Christopher: Great. And you’re not just giving us the quote – which is useful in itself – but also a little anecdote, a place to look, something like that.

Barry: Exactly.

If you’d like to receive a daily quote (with a short commentary and exercise to help you dig in) then you sign up for free emails by putting your email address in the sidebar at The Quotable Coach.

Launching a New Life in the New Year

December 22, 2010 By Barry

As we launch ourselves into a New Year I thought I would share a series of quotes from a book called Life Launch by Frederic M. Hudson and Pamela D. McLean. Enjoy!

“Your past cannot be changed, but can change tomorrow by your actions today.”
– David McNally

“The daily pressures to act, to do, to decide, make it difficult to stop and think, to consider and to examine your life goals, directions, and priorities – to find the best choices you have managing your own world.”
– Roy Menninger

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if the can’t find them, make them.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Developing a mission means seeing a pattern in the things and though that get you moving; assessing your resources; then formulating your feelings into words.”
– Charles Garfield

“Is there something in your life you would like to change? If so, first change your perception of the problem. When you can see yourself and your situation differently, you have already taken on the responsibility for your success.”
– Marilee Zdenek