Savour Summer While it Lasts (and Boost Your Creativity!) Summer’s here and it’s time for some fun. Canadians only get to experience warm air, deep blue skies and delightfully green …
How to Plan Financially for Successful Career Transition
Focus on Your Journey: How to Plan Financially for Successful Career Transition Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow is Marsha Sinetar’s promise in her 1987 book of the …
Changing careers? Learn from a few regrets
Most people would rather not spend time thinking about their regrets yet an unexamined regret can haunt us more than the regret itself. If we don’t take the time to …
Networking Your Way to a New Career
In 2008, I hired a coach to help me change careers and market my new coaching business. “Don’t I need a website?” I asked him. “Shouldn’t I start blogging?” I …
3 Tips for Becoming a Better Public Speaker
Almost twenty years ago, I gave my first big presentation on behalf of the software company at which I worked. It was a disaster: there were far more people in …
Career-Changers: What Kind Are You?
(Originally published in the September 2016 edition of the Talk/Touch/Move newsletter, republished with permission.) In my work as a career and life coach, I hear from a lot of people who …
Quitting your job CAN be your best decision
In 2009, I resigned from a successful career in financial technology to start my own coaching business. My decision was quick: one day I was still working downtown, burnt out at …
My Year of Becoming a Process-Based Leader
A year ago I developed a plan to help me become a leader around the concept of process-based living, an organic approach to creating positive change. The plan was made up …
Shortcuts to Mindfulness
Whenever I ask people what gets in their way of practising mindful meditation, the answer is most often: “time.” There’s no time to sit on a chair or cushion and …
Can’t sleep? Try the Anti-Ruminator
If there’s something to ruminate about, you can bet I’ll be ruminating about it – often long into the night when I’d rather be fast asleep. Recently, however, I decided …