Unselfconscious pursuit of creating a good space for oneself is a remarkably beautiful thing. Last weekend, the hotel I stayed at was close to Chinatown in Calgary, and the foods and sights and sounds was heavily influenced by Asian culture. The shrimp wonton soup was wonderful! I had a chance to see Tai Chi being …
Things I learned on my trip Part 1
Sometimes a change is as good as a rest. I had a chance to take a break from regular life and I took it…and it was good. While I was in Calgary this weekend, I gloried in the chance to do some extra runs, breathe deeply and spend some time to myself (in the mornings)…and …
Active Listening
I was at a conference, Stay Ahead of the Electronic Curve, yesterday that looked at how business can use the internet more effectively. It was a really helpful day for me to learn how to help potential customers get to know us and how we can better serve the public. As someone who runs a …
Hope Arrived
Last fall, I planted hope. Over the long winter, when it was dark and cold, and I’d be working at my dining room table in the evenings, I’d think about the tulips that were planted outside in the frigidness. It seemed impossible that anything that was out there wasn’t completely dead (which is why I …
A Lanyard–A Gift for Mom
Parenting is a monumental challenge. The amount of energy that we pour into our children is incredible. Today, children thank their mother–in a sweet but inadequate way. Watch the video and chuckle: sitellite/util/snippets (code=b72f160b2df689924ff977cc03ed626b) There is no way a child can “pay back” a parent for all that has been done…though the task of watching them …
Keeping us hopping
Grass generally doesn’t have a chance to grow under our feet around here. We run a high positive energy office around this place. It’s a fun happenin’ place to be. The pace just went up this week though! Fatima is a graduating student from Coll ge universitaire de Saint-Boniface in business. She is working with …
A Wince that Heals and Understands
I’m a student of the therapy profession. I love to know what makes an therapist an exceptional one, what a therapist does that is helpful, that gives a person hope, that has the person believing enough after the first session that it feels worthwhile to come back. Therapy is a risky venture as a person …
The Five R’s of Parenting
by Julie Freedman Smith and Gail Bell of Parent Power In an effort to protect children from the world at large, paretns can fall into a pattern of puffing children up with false praise and gradiosity to build self esteem. These techniques have been proven to backfire, resulting in children who feel tremendous pressure to …
Love–Grab It, Give It
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life,the flame that heals our soul, energizes …
Celebrating Lemonade Today
Sometimes we choose our challenges. I’ve chosen to run a half marathon. It was planned for. Measured. I chose the adventure. Sometimes life chooses our challenges for us. Yuck! Challenges not of our choosing are thrust upon us. There is a reason we don’t choose some of these challenges. There is very little pleasant about …