It’s the obstacles or challenges that come between you and your goal that gets your creative juices flowing and powers your determination and your hones will to overcome, and more often than not, you will! When I was in high school, I used to run hurdles. Hurdles are obstacles in a 100 meter course set at a certain height and particular distance … [Read more...]
To Manage Change, Learn to Manage Yourself
March 2, 2015 by
Change is inevitable, ever present and experienced with ever-increasing complexity and intensity. It is within us and external to us. It is us. We are the change when we choose to live mindfully. When we are aware of change as a constant and recognize change as an opportunity to create the future we envision, we accept responsibility for our part … [Read more...]
Self Care – Enlightened Self-Interest
February 27, 2015 by
Self care, as a personal commitment and practice, is an expression of respecting and honoring the Self. Cats have a lot to teach us in this domain! Our attitude and outlook towards life, the quality of our energy, vitality and general condition will let us know, if we’re attentive, what we need to move towards balance in every moment. The … [Read more...]
Vitality is Life: Some Conditions Apply!
February 17, 2015 by
There’s no season that teaches us more about vitality than Spring when nature’s primal life-giving force is irrepressible and the growing conditions are just right to activate earth’s inherent fecundity in an explosion of colour, scent and growth everywhere around us. Nature’s abundant generosity stirs us awake at our very core, and inspired by … [Read more...]
Accept and Then Embrace Your Life. There’s Power There!
February 9, 2015 by
Change is all there is….you are continually changing and the context of your life – your family, workplace, home life, community, environment and the world is continually changing. Technological developments have always driven change from the industrial revolution to the great cultural, social and economic change catalyzed by the digital era we are … [Read more...]
The Best Medicine: Relax and Focus on What Excites You!
February 4, 2015 by
Taming the ‘monkey mind”, entering the stillness, quieting the mind, finding inner peace may all be ways of saying the same thing….the experience of Mindfulness, defined in 2003 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, who popularized it in North America as, “Paying attention in a particular way on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment.” So … [Read more...]
Beliefs that Limit or Empower – Your Choice!
January 30, 2015 by
A belief is a composite view or mindset that consists of a set of ideas or assumptions, theories we assume to be true. The belief you hold may be implicit and underlying expressed through our attitude and behaviour shaped by early conditioning – what we witnessed and observed in our families and internalized growing up as impressionable and … [Read more...]
Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?
January 21, 2015 by
It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps. Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]
Crafting New Year’s Resolutions that Stick is an Art and a Science
January 16, 2015 by
According to a recent article in Scientific American, “Getting discouraged by setbacks is one of the most common reasons people fail to meet their goals.” This, I am sure, is no great news. What’s important to learn is how to set and manage expectations. In doing that right, you’ll soon experience fewer and fewer setbacks. The small steps, kaizen … [Read more...]
Self Compassion and You
January 14, 2015 by
It is no surprise to me and I expect won’t surprise you either that people who treat themselves with compassion feel better about themselves and have better coping skills – are more able to respond rather than react to disappointments and setbacks. The September 2014 research study at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, by Kelly et al., 2014 … [Read more...]
