It’s not in our nature to do things that make us uncomfortable or that we fear or, even worse, things we think we will fail at. Automatically, we resort to things that are familiar or things we know we have a higher likelihood in succeeding at. But it’s doing things outside of our comfort zone …
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, …
The Humboldt Broncos: a team that everyone across the nation knows about for the wrong reason. Well, at least that’s how it started. But after tragedy struck, the country quickly came together to shine some light on the heartbreak (and raise a whopping $15.1M and counting). The Humboldt Broncos are now known for all of …
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, …
Plan B: The backup plan, the second option that we embark onto after our A choice doesn’t work out. Contrary to what I thought up until this year, plan B is not most useful for a rainy day when plan A doesn’t materialize itself. Rather, plan B is what we need most when our first …
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 …
I meant to write this article in October, when the world lost The Tragically Hip frontman and Canadian legend, Gord Downie, but here we are. I guess you could say it’s been a Long Time Coming. In the summer of 2016, I was fortunate enough to be working in Kingston, Ontario for a National Sport …
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 …
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 …
Almost half a year ago, someone told me they believed that every four years you should take a risk and do something that will alter your life’s course. Four years – that’s 1,460 days. For some this might seem like a long time to go without change, for others it might not be long enough. …