How Alone Time is Critical to Reaching Creative Flow
I was given a challenge. Well no, more a request. It first was born in a joking complaint. To which I called her out and told her if she gave me a topic to write about, that I would indeed.…
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My Grandmother’s Dressing
My grandma is awesome. And she’s a great cook. Her dressing has made it into Canadian Living magazine and I’ve been lucky enough to have it at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner for most of my life. I guess technically it’s…
What Do You Choose?
In life, we can either question what we’re told or we can choose to believe what we’re told. It many cases, it takes less effort to believe what we’re told but then we’re not really living our own life. The…
Significance of Tomorrow, May 17, 2011
For those who know me well, you know what happened to my family on May 17, 2001. We lost our sister, our wife, our daughter, our friend, my mom, Debbie McLeod. Tomorrow it will have been 10 years since she…
Why I Succeed – by Michael Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that…
Having a Whole New Perspective
I’ve always been told I was positive and optimistic. I believe that people are inherently good. There was some doubts in myself based on some past experiences. Doubts about love. Doubts about my future. But there was a moment a…
“If You Ever Need to Talk…I’m a Good Listener”
How many times has a friend said that to you? If you’ve ever been through a tough time, I’m sure you’ve heard it a lot. Or if you’ve had friends going through a tough time, I’m sure you’ve said it…
Old People
I watched an episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit tonight on Old People and some of the opinions of the people on the show really angered me. There was a bunch of young people complaining about old people. Seriously? They…
What’s Holding You Back?
Some of the business books and cds I’ve been listening to lately have reinforced some great points and one of them which really stands out is the idea of how we tend to not spend time on something which will…
Sometimes in the Most Uncommon Places
You know when you’re watching a random movie and all of a sudden a great quote pops out? You totally didn’t expect the movie to drop such great words of wisdom? Well I’ve had that happen a few times and…