Giving practical help when asked should be the price of the ticket into the human family. If we all paid our due, we’d be on our way to creating a sustainable society fully capable of taking care of itself.

Someone said to me recently that self-serving philosophies spread faster than altruistic ones. A practice that advances a personal agenda is more popular than an action that is primarily for the benefit of others. While I accept my friend’s practical observation, I have a hard time with it. Clearly, an ideal scenario would be a [...]

From Wikipedia: “Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance.” Many philosophers have weighed in on the subject, but in my experience synchronicity happens in response to a consistent application of effort towards a good purpose. [...]

Tune out the news and media chatter on occasion and look around at the simple examples of people helping one another through trying times. Keep an eye out for signs of enterprise, for those people building from a foundation of principle and purpose. Goodness is here, everywhere—it’s just obscured by the noise of life sometimes.

The quickest route to feeling wonderful is to help someone else. The moment you shift the focus away from yourself and toward another person, you’re back in balance. No matter how difficult the circumstances in your own life might be, reaching out to a friend will nurture feelings of being valuable and needed—and that simply feels good.

I’m getting a lot of good coaching from my kickboxing trainer—the wisdom just keeps on coming.  Here’s what she offered today:  “You don’t have to punch hard all the time. The whole point is to set up the killer punch. Try small jabs, hooks, upper cuts until you find the opportunity for the killer punch. [...]

If you want good things to happen or change to come, you need to show the world that you exist. That’s accomplished by participating in the action whether you feel like it or not.

We’ve all had that moment. It could be a crisis at work or in a relationship, trouble with kids or finances. Is that the right moment to pick up the phone and ask for coaching? Maybe not.

What’s the secret to real change? It’s simple; take a suggestion, a thought or a piece of advice from someone else, and make it your idea. Take ownership and run with it.

Documentary filmmaker Tan Siok Siok recently interviewed me for her film Twittamentary that profiles extraordinary connections and happenings taking place on Twitter.  What a treat, and what an elegant visual from this amazing director. I sincerely hope 3Lunches makes it into the final cut!  Let me know what you think and please reach out to @SiokSiok [...]