My family and I rented a cottage about two hours north of Saskatoon to just get away for the long weekend. More on that in another post, but today is still a vacation day for me so instead of writing a post, I’m going to share a video. This is a recording of a 2017 READ MORE
Category: Goals
I Don’t Need To Apologize For Living My Life
For awhile, I don’t know exactly how long, I’ve blogged twice per week, with them being published Tuesday and Thursday, but not this week. This week I’m writing one post, and it’s not being published until Thursday. No apologize for this “lapse”. I’m living my life. Monday was our daughter’s bat mitzvah. It was a READ MORE
What Will You Stand For?
There’s a line in the musical Hamilton when Alexander Hamilton asks Aaron Burr, “If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?” I was reminded of this line the other day while flipping through my copy of Brendon Burchard’s book The Charge, which came out almost a decade ago. In the second chapter, Burchard READ MORE
Put in the Effort Now For Compounded Results
A few months ago I wrote about “short-term fixes” and that sometimes you need to patch something quickly to stop water or blood or anger from spilling out of your toilet, body, or relationship. The post ended with: Short-term fixes are meant to be a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. If the toilet continues READ MORE
Sometimes You Just Have to Start
As I write this, I’m sitting on my back deck, feeling a cool breeze against my skin, listening to birds chirping in the trees, our air conditioning droning, and cars in the distance. I can see my dog resting on the patio and I’m surrounded by a variety of trees growing in our yard. When READ MORE
Some Times We Create Stuff That Sucks
In the past couple of weeks I’ve started two blog posts that I haven’t published. One, I wrote the whole thing and left it to rot in the drafts folder, while the other I started, but had no idea where I was going to go with it so it’s taken up residence next to the READ MORE
Who Do I Want to Be Moving Forward?
There are some political debates going on in both the U.S. and Canada that really come down to acknowledging who we’ve been as countries in the past and how we should be in the future. This requires honesty and openness, and both of these can be very hard. Countries are often good at talking about READ MORE
What Am I Doing to Try to Live as The Person I Want to Be?
The team that I’m a part of at the university has certain outcomes that we are trying to meet and several that we try to help instructors meet. We want to make sure that our workshops and short-course offerings provide opportunities to achieve or at least make progress on those outcomes. As part of this, READ MORE
What Could You Do With a Blank Page?
An artist may start with a blank canvas before starting work on a new painting they can see in their imagination. A musician might pick up their instrument to begin to play a song they hear forming in their mind. A writer could face a blank screen until they type the first words of a READ MORE
Are You Living Up to the Person You Want to Be?
I’ve written before about my Manifesto, but I’m going to repeat it here. I recite it to myself every morning and have pretty much since I wrote it a few years ago. It describes the person that I try to be, but I started wondering how I’m doing with that so I came up with READ MORE
