I was in town today working on my book – Active Enlightenment – at a cafe, not unlike J.K. Rowling when she was writing Harry Potter! I was also multi tasking and putting a list of things-to-do together, mostly to do with the life coaching seminars I am going to launch in the new year (2010 is going to Rock!).
So there I was, my thoughts filled with coaching ideas and questions as to where to run them, advertisement etc etc. When I realised that my caffeine intake of the day had reached its max. Fortunately my folder was brimmed with ideas and questions to go and seek answers to and off I went in search of a few of those answers.
One of which was to find out what unlimited txts means on my phone. I found out that this seems to be a massive amount and so I am considering using my own phone for the inspire-txts project.
Anyway, there I am wandering around town – always seeking synchronicities – when lo and behold there is this lady walking some feet in front of me with a t-shirt on saying “Enterprise Coaching”. I was of course gob-smacked and thought “Nah – must be something to do with the bus kind of coaches”.
Still, if you know me – that wasn’t going to stop me enquiring – so I speeded up my steps and “bumped” the lady in the t-shirt and asked her what it was all about. Wow! What a coincidence (yeah right) it was all about start-up businesses, coaching people into work and all the stuff, quite related to what I do.
So, I toodled off with this lady, whose name incidentally was Bev, to the Gateway building in Warrington and spent the a nice couple of hours networking and sharing ideas and possibilities with the people that were there. Here is a link – Enterprise Coaching – I found on the web about the event.
Who was there?
- Well, there was a little (Priestley) college start-up biz, they do personalised kit, check out there site here: PersonalisedPrintz (I went to Priestley College myself many moons ago!)
- There was a lady called Sarah who was promoting “the diploma” which is a new nationwide qualification for 14-19 year olds. Designed by Employers for Employers!
- A very enthusiastic chap by the name of Chris who was looking to launch a new local “your local” magazine, hope to be able to work with him – writing a personal development column! Hurry up with the website Chris
- And then there was Tricia from the Blue Orchid Management Consultants. Advising start-ups and such like. Check out the Blue Orchid site.
- Bev, who was the initial person I ‘bumped’ into hails from A4E – whose tag line “Improving People’s Lives” is worth mentioning.
- Then there was Geoff who is involved with the local – Orford Neighbourhood Project. Check out his site.
- And Rob who is on the Enterprise Coaching leaflet and is based at the gateway in Warrington (potential here for using the gateway to do coaching seminars).
Plenty of juicy contacts to network and explore. Lets see what can be done!
Well? Is this a lesson in focus=synchronicity or am I in cloud cuckoo land? Whatever the answer. I’d rather be here than elsewhere.
Kal
I love the phoenix fable, which is resplendent in all my works and so it will be that 