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.

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. [...]

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.

We spend a lot of time in life waiting. We wait for phone calls to be returned, for answers to business questions, for contracts to be signed, to hear whether we’ve been accepted into university, whether we’ve gotten the job—it goes on and on.

Joe Pena interviewed me on his wonderful radio show that profiles entrepreneurs and inspirational stories. What a great opportunity to get the message out. Have a listen, share your thoughts and answer this: are you ready to coach a friend? Enlighten Me: Carol Quinn Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]

Before 3Lunches, I had informal “coaching” relationships with several friends and acquaintances. My friend Kate, a reflexologist with her own practice, is a natural coach. “Don’t think negatively,” Kate reminds me when I’m imagining the worst.  “It doesn’t take any effort at all to be positive and open.” Kate has really good, very impractical ideas [...]