As life seeps out of my phone, I switch it to low power mode, conserving the minimal energy it has left. In this mode, it doesn’t operate at the same effectiveness. It’s unable to seamlessly be the device it’s meant to be. It will stay this way until I give it the time it needs …
The Vegas Golden Knights, the team that showed us – what happens in Vegas shouldn’t stay there. On the ice, the story was incredible, but off the ice, the story was better. The Golden Knights slayed… in every category. The unconventional hockey town embraced the team – Vegas finished fourth in the league in terms …
No but really, do you? If you don’t gratitude journal or haven’t heard of one, the concept is pretty self-evident; it’s a journal where you write down things you are grateful for. As the practice goes, you spend a few minutes at the end of your day writing moments that brought you joy. You set …
Standing in the middle of a cobblestone street, with two backpacks attached to my body, freshly plummeted into a new and foreign country, no knowledge of the language, and without the lifeline I have come to rely upon – a phone with wifi or any sort of internet connection. In most senses of the word, …
If you are anything like me, the Olympics are the most wonderful time of the year, or year and a half to be exact. It’s two weeks when I’m glued to the TV with my phone in hand re-watching additional coverage, just to get as much Olympics in me as possible. I average 5-6 cries …
Overthinking – have you ever done it? Forget it, you do it all the time – thinking 10 steps ahead before even making it through the first step. Yes, it’s fantastic to have a plan to make it to the end zone, but remember this: it’s about the first down, not the touchdown. We’re young, …
Let yourself stumble. Let yourself fall. Let yourself fail. A study was done with 800 MBA’s on the notion of how to learn – all bright individuals who had flourished in academia and experienced very few academic failures. Because of their lack of failures, they weren’t forced to build the muscle to allow them to …
Early last year I read a statistic saying that the average CEO reads 60 books a year whereas the average person reads 4-5. Essentially, CEO’s read the same number of books per month that the average person reads over the course of the year. After I read this the first thing that ran through my …
Every game we provide Tim Hortons coffee for our management, scouts, media, and volunteers. Now, I’m sure you are wondering who the person who picks up the coffee before each game is… The answer: one of our VP’s. One time I asked him why he is the one who gets the coffee – his response …
Creating a life that you don’t need a vacation from. That’s the quote I recently read that emulated the importance of pursuing your passion. Doing the things that you love every day so you don’t spend your week counting down the days until the weekend, or to your next vacation time, only to start again …