Our Perspective Is Our World
Our perspective is our world, but it can also limit what we see.We base decisions from our perspective. We choose how we interact with others…
If Change Was Easy
If change was easy, there would be no growth and transformation wouldn’t be possible. The butterfly doesn’t complain when it struggles…
Hope Is The Light
Hope is the light we hold onto when we’re stuck in the darkness.It’s the unshakeable belief that things will be different even if…
Resilience Is Facing Adversity
Resilience isn’t something you get just because you want it. Resilience is more something that you get and earn when…
Letting Go of the Past
The process of personal growth involves a great deal of letting go of the past and things that happened to us or around us when…
Stillness Helps You Heal
Presence and stillness provide an opening to a part of ourselves that wants to be healed. But this opening can be painful,…
Why Courage is Important in Coaching
I ask all of my clients what courage means to them and how might it help them overcome the challenge they face. But what does…
Insight as a Leadership Skill
A key skill for leaders is Insight, the ability to share a purpose or vision and inspire their teams to achieve goals in support…
Changing Your Beliefs
In order to do something you’ve never done before, you have to be willing to break through a limiting belief you’ve never…
Doing Whatever It Takes
Perseverance is doing whatever it takes to achieve your goal. Sometimes it’s hard, but the key in those times is to not give up.
One Small Step Forward
Sometimes when you’re amidst a very large complex challenge and you’re feeling overwhelmed, the best thing to do is to…
Challenging Your Perspective
Our perspective really can’t change unless we challenge it. And the easiest way to do that is by sharing it with others. And by having the …
What’s Courage Have To Do With Leadership?
Courage is a powerful word. You can see why when you look back to its Latin origin…
Use Courage As A Platform
Using courage as a platform to stand, our actions come from our deep rooted values and beliefs, something anchored inside …
Strength Is The Gift From Challenges
Strength is not something you’re born with, you have to build it. And most of the time it’s built from overcoming difficult challenges…
5 Steps To Growth in Life Transitions
Life transitions and change can be some of the most unsettling times in our life. Sometimes we choose the change…
Embarking On A New Path
Embarking on a new path often feels like jumping off a cliff. You can see this grand vista below where you want to go and…
Timing Is Everything
Timing is everything and the universe delivers to you when you’re ready for it. The energy and effort that you put out there is …
Positive Reflection
As the year draws to a close, we often reflect on it, sometimes positively and sometimes negatively. We can be hard…
Trying Something New
Trying something new can feel like jumping off a cliff. You’re leaving familiar ground and heading out into…
Wander, Just Go For It
Not all who wander are lost. I’ve been exploring both the physical world and my internal world ever since I was a young person …
Choose Resilience
Some flowers can bloom in the harshest conditions because it knows deep down that it’s made of the stuff to make it possible …
Whatever Challenge You’re Facing, You Got This
Whatever challenge you’re facing, whatever struggle you’re in, I get it, I hear you, I’ve been there too. I know that uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty, of fear stuck in your throat. I know that feeling of knowing the right thing to do but being scared to death of...
Goals Shouldn’t Be Pretty Things On Paper
How many times have you or your organization come up with some goals, written them down and said, ‘Let’s Do It’. The goals might even be written down in a nice pretty journal, on a vision board, or in your company strategic planning document. They might be posted on a...
Dare To Be Great
Dare to be great. No really, I dare you. In my experience and from working with others, often what people fear more than failure …
Accomplish Extraordinary Things
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” ~ Sir Edmond Hilary ~ …
Trust at Work Too
Trust, respect and vulnerability are not just for use at home and in our private lives. When cultivated in the workplace, they form …
Own Your Gift
The world is waiting for your gift, so please stop hiding it and ignoring it based on some fear that was made up long before …
Courage To Try Again
Courage is trying again while pushing through the storm of your past that’s telling you to turn around. The new isn’t the past …
Vulnerability Is The Only Way
Vulnerability is the only way through the healing required to start again. You can try to dodge it, avoid it and run from it. Trust me …
Be Great, You Only Get One Shot
Be great, because you really only get one shot to live your best life. Seriously, why do we spend time not being authentic …
When The Universe Delivers
Sometimes the package the universe delivers you doesn’t look exactly like the package you planned. But then you learn …
Go Further To See Further
Sometimes when you go a little bit further, you see a little bit more. When you’re amidst change or you’re heading out on a …
Open Your Heart, Again
Courage is what you need to open your heart again, to allow the broken pieces to be exposed, so they can be healed by a…
Goals Don’t Care That It’s Raining
Your goals don’t care that it’s raining out…or thundering. Last Saturday, if you’re local to Vancouver and remember…
Vulnerability is A Knife Edge
Vulnerability is walking along a knife edge between letting go of the past and opening up to a new future. Neither are easy…
Let the World Know Your Why
Let the world know why you’re here and do it with passion. When you tap into your gift, your talent and that thing that…
Visualize Where You Want to Go
When you can visualize where you’re going and the future you want, you’re already half way there. The key is to…
Exploration Tells Us The Answers
It’s through the process of inner exploration and, often unravelling, when we find the answers we’re looking for.
If Trust Was a Superhero
If trust was a superhero, what would he look like? What would he wear? Would he have tights and knee high boots? How about a cape that blows in the wind on the way to his next rescue? Would he fly or be able to leap tall buildings in a single step? What superpowers...
Great Ideas
“Great ideas come from a clear vision, a strong ‘why’ and knowing the impact you want to make in this world.”
Finding Growth in Your Fall
Learning to find growth in your fall and choosing to see it as an opportunity is the biggest and most powerful gift…
Don’t Blend In, Stand Out
“You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.” ~The Movie – Wonder~ Stop trying to blend in. Dig deep, reach in…
Sometimes All That Someone Needs
Sometimes all that someone needs is for you to listen to them. Not just hear them, but really listen, listen to understand and…
The Thing About Control
Learning What’s Behind It So It Doesn’t Control You “If only I could control what happens outside of me then everything would be ok.”…
Develop Yourself To Develop Your Relationships
Only by further developing yourself can you further develop your relationships. Stop looking at those around you to complete…
Embrace The Discomfort, Make It Your Friend
If you want to have a real cutting edge and a serious competitive advantage, learn how to embrace discomfort and make it your friend. And if you have an organization, then teach your leaders to do the same. As you read this you may be wondering, are you serious, how...
Vulnerabililty Based Trust – The Deal Breaker for Effective Teams
Going beyond what we commonly think of as trust, at the heart of cohesive and effective teams must be vulnerability based trust.
What If Courage Was Rewarded in the Workplace
“I’m not feeling great today Rob. I’m really struggling with something quite personal and it’s really affecting my ability to do my work properly.” “No problem Jeff, would you like to make a booking with our coach to bounce it off someone so you can work some things...
How I Learned to Quiet My Limiting Beliefs
“You’re not enough” “You’re not worthy” “You don’t deserve it” Do these sound familiar? Maybe a variation of these is more yours instead, like ‘You’re not smart enough', ‘Who do you think you are?’, ‘You’re not good enough for this?’, ‘You don’t deserve him/her’. We...
Courage: The Magic Ingredient in Change
When you’re deep in the thrusts of change or you’re about to embark on a new journey, the challenge is always finding stability in instability or certainty in uncertainty. The very nature of change brings about more stress and anxiety than any other human experience....
Finding Your Wings On The Way Down
How do you know if you’re ready to jump? If you have to make a big decision in your life or take a step into the unknown, how do you know if you’re strong enough, can handle what's ahead or will be finding your wings in the fall? The thing is, you don't. My story...
Trust the Process
Note to self: Hold the vision and trust the process. So often we get stuck in the process of achieving a goal or our vision. Fears come up, obstacles get in our way, we become our own obstacles, or we just lose our way thinking it's too hard or doubting if it's the...
Why EQ is More Important than IQ for First Year University Students
The biggest mistake parents make when preparing their kids for university is to focus on academics. Kids feel pressure early on for getting top grades so they can get accepted into university, and preferably the university and program of their choice. This pressure...
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