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.

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.

Someone recently asked me for 3Lunches on how to use social media to look for work as an art director. While I’m not a social media authority, I do know more than my friend about building relationships with people who share my values and professional interests using social media. So, I said, “Yes. I’d be [...]

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.

I had an entertaining interview recently with Rob McNealy on his blog radio show, Startup Story Radio. Rob’s passion is to use social media to evangelize about small businesses, and coaching entrepreneurs. I am grateful to Rob for giving me the the opportunity to talk about 3Lunches at length. Have a listen and share your [...]

3Lunches is meant to facilitate sharing between two people, and there is simply nothing more wonderful than when a person reaches out and offers time, knowledge, and experience to you. There’s no other way to describe it; it feels like love. It happened to me just last week. Iggy Pintado, author of the new book, [...]

So, here you are…sitting across the table from your coachee. What now? Between ordering lunch and being served, your coachee should have enough time to outline the issue. There’s no need for a huge preamble. Rating 3.00 out of 5 [?]

In this coaching example, it’s easy to see how one person’s difficult experience can be a gift to another person. The process of transferring the knowledge gained from your experience can be quite easy; especially when the coach’s direct experience mirrors the coachee’s. When you find a coach who has been through what you may [...]

Last night I dreamt I was on Twitter again. The default brown avatar with the bewildered baby-blue eyes stared at me, 140-word messages scrolled through my mind, but I couldn’t understand any of the communications. I’m not against Twitter. I may possibly love it, but the dream stayed with me.   Twitter is true democracy, [...]

We’ve all had that one moment in our lives when we just could not figure out what to do next. That moment—sometimes filled with confusion and panic—is often preceded by a calamity: a divorce, aging parents, a relationship breakup. These days, it’s more often than not the loss of a job, a home and financial [...]