Moving On For “More”
Why would someone leave a fantastic job?! 🔹 With achievements recognized through promotions 🔹 Ample positive feedback 🔹 Dedicated mentors 🔹 An eager and exceptional team For one of my clients, it was simply because his sense that there has to be more was about relocating to live near family. With a young toddler to raise…
New Wheels
I got new wheels yesterday! Roller blades that is. (I frankly think I get more joy from roller blades than a car anyway). Lately I’ve been a bit discouraged by how slowly I’ve been blading and how many benches seem to call to me along my usual 10k route. Finally, I decided that an equipment…
Limiting Beliefs
What’s getting in your way? How might your beliefs be limiting your impact or keeping things “smaller” for you? Beliefs about yourself– the labels you’ve adopted over the years. Beliefs about leadership– formed from very early mentors whom you may no longer admire. Beliefs about how work “best gets done”– turned upside-down through the pandemic….
Manifesting Dreams
A lesson in manifesting your dreams… brought to me by the next generation. The spectacular location in this photo was where my eldest nephew was married on June 18, 2022. He and his girlfriend had visited this venue in Pembroke, BC years earlier while on a hiking vacation. They both decided it would be the perfect…
Bittersweet
OK, so the photo is admittedly a bit “staged”. But it WAS taken while reading this special book, ʙɪᴛᴛᴇʀꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ, while in Reynolda Village Gardens one evening while I was on a work from anywhere experience in Winston-Salem, NC. Such a glorious place to sink into a rich book. It was a beautiful peaceful park with…
Change Your Walk…Change Your Brain!
OK that might sound like a bit of a stretch but we DO know that studies show walking itself “changes your brain”. ✅ Walking promotes the release of endorphins, the chemicals that stimulate relaxation and improve our mood. ✅ Going for a walk can even increase the size of your hippocampus- the region of your…
I Told Myself “I’m Not a Distance Driver”
I’m NOT a distance driver. At least that’s what I told myself for essentially 43 years of my life. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always loved road trips. When I was about 7 or 8 my family spent a whole month of August driving from Oakville to Fort Lauderdale and back again, exploring various spots…
Have monitor, will travel
It all started with my 21 year-old daughter saying, “Mom, you can live anywhere in the world right now”. Sure… for a minute I heard the story in my head of being a Mom who is no longer needed…“I’m back at University now. I’ve got this. I’ll check back in when I’m announcing grandchildren for…
Stop Telling; Start Asking
Getting the best out of your employees today requires a new set of skills. You need to help your employees achieve their goals, but too much “telling and pointing” will backfire. More than answers, today’s leaders must offer questions. This is the essence of coaching and a skill-set imperative for leading. At the risk of…
Face Up. Your Boss is Human Too!
All too often, we start a new position full of enthusiasm only to find as the weeks have gone on that the boss you were so excited to work for has turned out to offer less promise than you’d hoped. I’ve noticed that my clients who are most successful in moving through this disappointment are…