Do you ever find yourself thinking or saying to yourself, “Ugh!!! I shouldn’t have said that.” or “I don’t know if should do this.” or “I shouldn’t say that.”? Or what about “I have to do such and such” or “I need to go to that place”? I know I used to use language like […]
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Happy autumn equinox! Well, technically the autumn equinox for those in the Toronto area was last night around 10pm, but close enough. As I learned in a law course several years ago, it’s important to pay attention to the spirit and intent of the law. So equinox on! Every year, there are two equinoxes. One
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Self-dismissal. Cutting down your insight before it can possibly have a chance to develop. Shutting down your intelligence before it can do a thing to serve you. Crushing those seedlings before they can grow into plants! Not such a great plan. And yet many of us are serious experts at it! If you haven’t already,
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Are you cutting yourself down before you’ve even had a chance to develop your genius? Every year, I grow a container garden on the balcony. This process begins in the second half of the winter, when I start cultivating from seed on the windowsill. It’s always so exciting to see the first hints of tiny
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Have you ever had a journal? I can still remember my first journal. It was 1989. It had a padded cover. The fabric cover was dusty rose in the background with a large, 80s-esque flower pattern all over. Journaling is all the rage right now. There are lots of great apps and physical journals available
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A few years ago, I was feeling stuck in my career. I was told that I was doing everything right, and to just keep it up. But I’d already been keeping it up for years, fighting internal organizational inertia, and I was demoralized, disengaged, and frustrated. It felt like any potential opportunities were dangled carrots
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Pulitzer prizewinning author and racial civil rights activist Alice Walker has been quoted as reminding us that “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any”. Maybe some of you can relate with me when I say that I haven’t always felt I was in a place of
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Stories. People love stories. Movies, oral tradition, plays, tv shows. Any good storyteller understands the importance of something called the “suspension of disbelief.” “Suspension of disbelief” is a concept outlined by Aristotle with respect to poetics, and gets at the idea that audiences accept fiction as reality in order to have an emotional experience. We’ve
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