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New Year, New You? Reinventing Reinvention

We’ve all heard stories of people who have reinvented themselves – done a radical overhaul and sold everything, shaved the head, quit the job, moved across the world and joined…

Equinox Paradox: The Social Media Balance

What if what you want most requires you to do what you want least? This is the conundrum and the reality I find myself in these days. With the onset…

Covid’s Evil Twin

Over the last few days, while chatting with two mental health care professionals, one here in Canada, and one in the U.S., both have alluded to what is becoming known…

Death by Virtual Meeting

Meetings used to suck. They sucked up our time, our energy, and our resources. We spent most of our days in meetings, going from one to another. We had no…

C-19 Productivity Hack: Do less with more

In the past 2 weeks, we’ve been inundated with offerings on how to live in the new Covid-19 world. There is immeasurable, amazing, rich content about how to work and…

100 Days of Clarity

Today marks my 100th day of clarity. For me, that has meant no alcohol at all, and almost-daily meditation. It all started the day Mother Earth literally smacked me upside…

Leader Self-Reflections – The Importance of Looking Inward

I often get hired to fix people. Fix them individually, fix their groups, fix their behavior, attitudes, and, ultimately, improve their output. I get hired by senior managers to fix…

You Can Lead A Horse To Water: How to Effectively Influence Others

We know that old saying “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” What about helping him realize he’s thirsty? This simple statement captures the…

Managing the Bubble: How to Create Presence

We all have one: that cartoon-like bubble above our heads, filled with thoughts, beliefs, judgments, assumptions, fears, biases, and experiences, that colors our ability to truly be present and engaged…