“Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living.” – James MacDonald With the holiday season approaching and Canada’s Thanksgiving right around the corner, let’s take a moment to talk about gratitude. How often have you thought, or even heard yourself saying you’d like to be more content? More satisfied? More appreciative of the […]
Category: Motivation
Values-Driven Leadership in a Status-Driven Culture
I AM vs I HAVE Leaders What does it take to successfully model leadership in today’s current workplace culture? Some of the first things that come to mind might be power, confidence, charisma, intelligence, and other such characteristics. However, being a great leader requires more than just the right skills, a series of checklists, or […]
Stop Setting New Year’s Goals; Start With Your WHY!
Don’t you love this time of the year, the start of it? In many ways, the New Year lies before us like the perfect country road in the spring, a new year of growth.
In A World of Presents People Need…
As we head into the final month of the calendar year, now that Black Friday is over, the focus starts to sprint towards Christmas. I want to ask if you would take a couple of minutes to think about the thinking.
2 Minutes For Freedom?
What if we paused to take 2 minutes on 11 – 11 – 11?
Course Correction to Experience the Profound Principle of Thanks?
How often have you thought, or even heard yourself saying, you’d like to be more content? You’d like to be more satisfied? Or I would be more content if…
Transform your Critical Moments from Survive to Thrive: Discover the Run Toward The Roar Ethos
Doesn’t it feel like sometimes we are caught in a squeeze play? The pressure of completing work assignments, family responsibilities, and meeting workplace expectations, all while maintaining our mental health, yet are we given the authority to make those necessary, final decisions?
Living Under The Yellow Light: Makes Wellness, More Than Not Being Sick!
The hardest part of wellness, or at least for most of the people I talk with, is to stop thinking of it as not being sick or ill. Yet there is nothing that new. I want to share a poem called And the People Stayed Home’ at the end of this newsletter, but read and then notice the year it was written!
Form Without Substance Is Self-Worship
What I am really saying is just what Grandma would say, “what you are speaks so loudly, people cannot hear what we are saying.” Picture the scene; have you ever had one of those weeks where it seems so draining, yet if someone asked what we did – it would be hard to put into words? […]
The Hurrier I Go, the Behinder I Get!
Unplugging will not Recharge us; recreation is about re-creat-ing! This morning I want to take a nod to those of you with kids who have a March Break. I want to offer some ideas to ensure that you recharge but also own the fact that recreation is about re-creat-ing. One of the greatest ironies is […]