This holiday season was different than seasons past. It was fabulously different – challenging, inspirational, filled with love and cheer, thought-provoking. For the first holiday season of my life, I didn’t eat turkey and only missed it in the slightest. Granted, I certainly gorged on many of my (non-meat) favourites (although it resulted in something [...]
One of my dreams as of late (in the past year or two) has been to become some sort of inspirational speaker. Yet, I am besieged with a bit of confusion over what, exactly, makes me inspiring… and how would I go about inspiring other people to do… well, what exactly. The people who I [...]
It’s been posted out to me that I often misuse the word “Open” – for example, I will asked if a store is “opened” rather than “open”, even though I consciously know that the latter is correct. It makes me wonder how we begin to butcher and misuse a word – where do these bad [...]
The term mindfulness is usually tied to meditation as in the mindfulness of Buddhism, and yet it can be tied to every activity that human beings engage in. Being mindful is to be in the moment, being fully aware of the goings-on without rendering judgment – simply acknowledging and releasing without emotional involvement. I believe [...]
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the art of delivering instantaneous speeches. In retrospect, it was occurred to me that perhaps I have a certain amount of discomfort with being constrained by guidelines and having to stick to a “plan”. Granted, one of the first skills I acquired to accompany my instantaneous speeches [...]