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
Category: Vision
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
A Winding Path Leads to Possibilities
I got my first job when I was 15. I worked just a few hours per week at our local library, shelving books. Even while I had other jobs, graduated from high school and started college, I continued to work for the library, eventually moving up to a supervisory role (it was a very small 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
You Do You
I’ve previously written about the importance of being true to yourself. It’s in my Manifesto – “Be genuine – Be who I am, do what I do, and don’t compare myself to others.” I try to do this, but some days are better than others. I was thinking about this ideas this past weekend while READ MORE
Figure Out, Try It, Stick With It, Revise, Repeat
When I talk with instructors about choosing aspects of their courses (teaching strategies, assessments, etc.) I remind them that it’s an iterative process. You figure out what you want to do, try it, stick with it long enough to see if it works or not, revise what you’re doing as needed, and then try out READ MORE
Filling Those Blank Pages
I was rewatching one of my all-time favourite TED Talks yesterday and it inspired me to write something of a “part 2” to Tuesdays post. In the video below, director J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek, Star Wars, and much more) talks about the idea of The Mystery Box. He has a literal Mystery Box that READ MORE
One Ball At A Time
Best selling writer and advocate Glennon Doyle espouses the very wise idea on focusing on “what’s the next right step.” This is so wise in fact, even Princes Anna emphasized it in Frozen 2 (which we watched again this weekend). The point is, if you find yourself getting stressed about the tenth or twentieth or READ MORE
