This will be brief because I’m starting my vacation tomorrow. That’s also why you won’t see a new post here until November 18th. On Monday, however, be sure to check out the Better Me Podcast to here my interview with gynaecologist / singer-songwriter (yes, you read that right) Kristina Dervaitis talking about her new album READ MORE
Category: Vision
No Such Thing as a ‘Best Before Date’ For People
On Friday I’m recording a podcast with a musician named Kristina Dervaitis who recently released her first album on her 46th birthday. She and her husband, Barry recorded the album in a home studio throughout the pandemic. Prior to this, Dervaitis worked full time as a gynaecologist. She still has a part-time practice in addition READ MORE
Your Silence Serves No One
I just started reading Luvvie Ajayi Jones’s latest book Professional Trouble Maker: The Fear-Fighter Manual. I’ve wanted to read it since I saw this video a few months ago and finally got myself a copy last week. Take 11 minutes and watch this talk she gave at TED almost four years ago. You’ll be glad READ MORE
Ships In The Harbour
I was listening to Dave Hollis’s latest podcast episode and he was reading from his upcoming book Built Through Courage. In it, and in much of his work lately, he builds off of the quote A ship in a harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. John Shedd Hollis goes on READ MORE
10 Things I’m Looking Forward To
This morning, the email message from Brendon Burchard recognized how hard the past almost two years have been and recommended making a list of five things that we’re looking forward to. He said that when he sat down to do this, he ended up writing for 40 minutes. I didn’t have that much time, but READ MORE
Designing Your Life
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
Hold On To That
I’m almost fifty and I’ve spent half my life as a student in some kind of formal education. Much of my K-12 experience I hated. I was often bored in class so I didn’t pay attention, which left me lost much of the time. I always seemed to be a target of one of the 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
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
A Change of Scenery
A lot of people have been staring mostly at the same walls for much of the past year plus. For people who are use to traveling abroad or even around their own town / city, this has likely been challenging, and they may be feeling desperate for a change of scenery. For most people, travelling READ MORE
