https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com Financial Transformation with Kate Phillips Mon, 28 Nov 2022 01:47:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/car-towed-on-thanksgiving/ Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:20:25 +0000 https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/?p=4937 One Thanksgiving came disguised as a Terrible, Awful, Very Bad Day. It became “The Year When Stranded Strangers Helped Each Other Out” by Paying it Forward!

The post That time my car was towed on Thanksgiving… first appeared on Total Wealth.]]> https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/paying-it-forward/ https://www.totalwealthcoaching.com/paying-it-forward/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:02:33 +0000 http://gardenofplenty.wordpress.com/?p=425 I made a stop at the QFC grocery store in Redmond Ridge Saturday night.  I was on my way home from teaching a “Wealthy, Worthy and Wise” workshop and I needed a few groceries.  It had been a long day with an early start, and besides the groceries, I was also in the market for a shot of caffeine. I stopped by the in-store Starbucks stand and ordered a mocha from the friendly young male barista.  After writing on the cup and ringing my drink into the register, he started telling me a story before allowing me to pay for my drink. “This morning, our store’s assistant manager decided to pay for his drink and also the drink of the person following him,” he explained.  “The next person did the same, and people have continued it all day long, paying for the next person’s drink.”  Sure to let me know that there was no obligation, he added, “So your drink has already been paid for.  If you’d like to contribute to the next person’s drink, you can.” My first reaction was surprise at hearing the words, “Your drink has already been paid for.”  It felt like I had won a little scratch card prize or something.  My money was already out of my purse, and it seemed natural to “pay it forward” and contribute to the next.  The barista paid the cash register out of money collected in a brown paper bag, then put my money into that same bag.  Then he looked particularly pleased, and announced to me, “You’re the 100th person to ‘pay it forward’ today!” I loved that he was keeping track.  I loved that he recognized that something out of the ordinary, no matter how small, was happening.  I loved being part of it. I took my mocha and started pushing my cart around the store, collecting the items I needed.  The mocha…

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