A few years ago, a very influential friend in my life, celebrated a significant milestone with family and close friends. The event was filled with people connecting and reconnecting, and sharing hugs, laughter, story telling, and much joy. With painting as a hobby, my friend had created a long...
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The Power of Connection
This concept, “the power of connection” may be more or less a “no brainer” for some of us, but for others, our awareness hovers (within that vast middle ground), somewhere between being totally oblivious to it, and those odd moments, where we think we’ve just experienced a miracle. I’m...
“All Work and No Play…” – The Life Giving Power of Laughter
Have you heard the one about the…! Humour… who doesn’t love a good laugh? In our last article “Frequency – A Critical Component of Success” we considered how frequent laughter improves relationships. Well, consider that laughter also improves just about everything else in life, including our health and our...
Frequency – A Critical Component of Success
Frequency Of the number of different definitions that appear in the dictionary for the word “Frequency”, the definition I would like us to consider is the following: “The number of occurrences of a repeating event over a period of time” One common example of frequency for all humans would...
Martial Morality – A Life Long Journey
As most of you know, I have been a student of martial arts for a good portion of my life; and I continue to play an active role as a student, an instructor, and as an advocate for the principles of traditional martial arts (for more info click here...
Who Needs a Coach?
I get asked this question from time to time… and the simple answer is, someone who wants to transition to beyond being good, to becoming GREAT!! With this primary need identified, we can consider all the related follow-up questions like, “How should I pick a coach?” and “What’s the difference...