In a recent conversation with a friend of mine, I was expressing how delightful my coaching practice had become. How helping others find their purpose in life was in line with my greatest purpose; sharing, teaching, guiding. Then she cried out for help, “Help ME figure out what I’m supposed to be doing!!!” The answer was right in the question. I threw the question back at her. “What do you WANT to be doing?” (more…)
It was 1998 and I stopped by my parent’s house with a van full of Australian hostellers as we we en route to Toronto for the day. We piled out of the van and into my parent’s house to use the bathroom, pick up some stuff, gather some snacks, check the oil and other random leg stretchers. In the 30 or so minutes that we were there, one kind fellow named Paul had gotten in a conversation with my father. Both of my parents have always been free-spirited adventures and would have seen this random journey with a bunch of strangers as a pretty cool which I suppose sparked the conversation between Paul and my father. I didn’t hear much of what they were saying to one another but a little scrap of paper scrawled with Paul’s handwriting was pinned up to the fridge. I still have it. It said, ‘If you stop listening to your heart, your heart stops speaking to you.’ (more…)
You want to save the world? Here’s how! If you’ve been wondering whether you should start with the trees or the whales, the ozone layer or by eradicating all dis-ease, stop wondering and start listening. There is only one way to save the world and that’s to save yourself. (more…)
follow the signs
Often when we do not know which way to turn, we look for signs. There are signs everywhere, pointing us in one direction or another and as we point to the path of least resistance, we begin to flow downstream and things begin to look in our favor. The mistake that we often make is to look for the signs around us instead of inside of us. (more…)
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