After the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, I came back to Canada and began to reflect on the privilege and experience I had supporting Team Canada at my first Paralympic Games. I found myself wondering how I could best describe the experience when people were to ask me about it, because I knew many …
Every superhero has a sidekick, every good entrée comes with a side, and every success comes with support. With the stresses and deadlines that come with modern society, an intricate and diverse support system is vital to a young professional’s life. A support system is your devil’s advocate, they’re that reassuring voice when the going …
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, …
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 …
A short nine months ago I was sitting on the bench waiting for my next shift in what would be the last hockey game of my playing career. Fast forward to now and here I am, standing on the other side of the bench coaching the same game that I love. I decided I wanted …
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 …
Own, Build and Distribute Your Brand Your name is your brand. Own it, build it and distribute it. It’s all you’ve got and you’re both one tweet away from getting fired and one Google search away from not getting a job. Own What happens when you Google your name? Do you own all of those …