My coaching business started by accident.

As closely as I can trace the steps, it happened like this: First, I started sharing my writing every day on the Internet.

A few months later, I was invited to become a coach at Akimbo.

Then, one by one, people started asking me if I could help them with their businesses.

For some reason — maybe hormones, maybe the weather, maybe the moon phase — I am operating with extra energy this week.

Each day, I’m waking up early and getting right to work. Little tasks I’ve been putting off are getting done with no fuss. Big projects are moving forward.

I could keep the same schedule as always, but I’m leaning into it. I’m well aware that this sense of flow may not last, so I’m stepping up my hours and following the energy.

She wants to travel to Europe, but it’s too expensive.

He wants to start a YouTube channel, but he doesn’t want to have to shoot and edit two videos a week for the rest of his days.

Another wants to write a book, but there are so many books already.

It’s not a coincidence that I started blogging right when I started working with a business coach who told me to blog.

She told me to stop overthinking what I was going to write about and just start writing. Well...I sort of took a Forrest Gump approach to that and wrote more than was strictly necessary. But unlike Forrest, who just started running because he felt like it, I wrote because she told me to, and I trusted her.