Always in a rush? This technique will help to slow things down
Stop me if you’ve been in this situation before: You’re in the car. You’ve left your house later than you were supposed to. You have a meeting that starts in 25 minutes, but you’re actually 30 minutes away. That doesn’t include time to find a parking spot, and it certainly doesn’t include any traffic or […]
Post Valentine’s Day Blues: The Single Greatest Thing to do for Your Relationship
How did you spend Valentine’s Day? Were you crying over a tub of ice cream? Giving couples the finger? Or were you sharing some pasta with your loved one, Lady and the Tramp styles? However you spent it, with the (dreaded for some) holiday behind us, I thought it would be appropriate to touch on […]
5 Ways to Obliterate Fear and Get What You Want
Have you ever really wanted to do something, but talked yourself out of it out of fear? Fear of the unknown, fear of change, fear of looking like a fool, fear of insert-your-reason-here? If you read through the Ebook preview at the end of my last post, then you know about limiting beliefs. These are […]
The One Question to Ask Yourself This New Year’s Eve
If you’ve been reading my posts for a while, or if you know me personally, then you know I am a big goal setter. I talk about goals, I write them down, I make plans to make them happen, and then, miraculously – they do! Remarkably, I’ve been able to achieve most of the goals […]
How I Helped my Cousin Lose 10 Pounds in 3 Weeks
Despite the title, you should know that this post isn’t about weight loss. It’s not about getting lean. It’s not about building muscle. Heck, it’s not even about getting healthy. In the end, all of these things will be accomplished, but that is not the point of this post. This post is about bravery. It’s […]
A Simple Trick to Turn “I Can’t” into “I Can”
It started out like any typical Saturday. The alarm went off at 6:30am. I rolled out of bed. Put on my trail running clothes. Grunted a good morning to my handsome husband. Laced up my muddy trail running shoes (will I ever remember to clean them in between runs?), and headed out the door. It […]
Health Check Up: What’s Your Health Score?
Do you consider yourself to be a healthy person? If you could score your overall health on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being really bad and 10 being I-am-a-perfect-human-being-with-no-need-for-any-improvement-whatsoever, how would you rank? Now break it down into the following categories, and rank yourself on the same scale: Physical Activity Food/Nutrition Relationships Career […]
9 Ways to Master the Art of Working From Home
Are you your own boss? Do you work from home? That includes you, stay-at-home moms and dads! You may love your kids, but let’s not kid ourselves: what you do every day is hard work! For anyone who has ever had the opportunity to work from home, whether for yourself or for an organization (or […]
Life Uninterrupted: What 168+ Hours Away From my Smart Phone did for my Soul
When I boarded the plane last September 25th, I was headed to Muskoka for some family celebrations. My smartphone, on the other hand, was headed to airplane mode. And though I got off the plane in my home and native land, escaping into the sea of my fellow Canadians and Tim Hortons on every block, […]
The Space Between: The Case for a Digital Detox
Yesterday I spent almost the entire day reading. I was reading a 700 plus page library book that was due that very day, and I was still 400 pages away from the end. I decided to shut out the noise of the world, close my laptop, shut the blinds, turn on the soft light from […]
