Savour the day sounds like a great bumper sticker. Except some days I bet you don’t feel like savouring. Ever have anything unexpected happen? Things not go exactly the way you planned? Or maybe something went completely off the rails? Of course it did. Many times. That’s because despite all our wishful thinking that it…
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These Times Are Serious
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity. True, but I didn’t write that. Ralph Waldo Emerson did more than 150 years ago. In the mid 19th century, they had their hands full with the Crimean war, assassinations, a cholera epidemic and Charles Darwin rattling people’s world with the theory of evolution. If…
Top 10 Dalai Lama quotes
It wasn’t easy to choose my top 10 Dalai Lama quotes. On July 6th His Holiness the Dalai Lama celebrated his 85th birthday. He is a man admired for his kindness, compassion and joy of living. He is also respected for the wisdom of his teachings. So here are my top 10 favourite Dalai Lama…
3 simple ways to stop worrying
Everybody worries about something. If you have kids, you worry. Got a job? You worry. If you live on planet earth, you worry. Let’s face it – there are lots of things that we could worry about. From illness to job layoffs to relationships to roller coast economies to global warming to terrorism, we could…
What if YOU Could Create World Peace?
Now more than ever it seems like world peace is something that is far out of our reach. Scroll through your news feed or turn on the TV and we are bombarded by images of conflict. No wonder people feel more anxious and unsettled than ever. It’s easy for us to look at war torn…
The secret to less stress in your holiday shopping
The countdown to Christmas is on and we are all looking for the perfect gift. Holiday shopping creates a lot of stress as we try to meet expectations and still be a frugal Santa. Turns out the whole gift giving thing is not quite as holly jolly as we might hope it would be –…
Mothers actually know a thing or two: Life lessons from Mom
Like most kids, it took me a while to figure out that my mom was one smart cookie. Inevitably I went through many years thinking I knew way more than my mother would ever possibly know. And of course as time passed I began to realize that I actually knew a fraction of what I…
Why time messes with your mind
Time is a funny thing. There is a level train crossing not far from my house and if I don’t time it right, I can get caught sitting and waiting for the train to pass…which…seems…to…take…forever. Minutes feel like hours while I’m waiting for container car after container car it to slowly chug its way across…
[Podcast Ep 7] The Go/No Go Factor: Presence
The Being & The Doing EPISODE 7: The Go/No Go Factor Being more mindful as you go about your day means you can make more conscious and intentional choices. Then you are better able to align those choices with your priorities and values and show up authentically in your interactions in the world. In this…
[Podcast Ep 1] The Being and the Doing
Episode 1: What the heck is the Being & the Doing? Feel like life balance is fleeting in your crazy busy life? That’s because you have been thinking about it all wrong. In this episode learn what you need to do so you can go with the flow of life while still getting stuff done….