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A couple of months ago, I flew from Halifax to Toronto. My flight was scheduled to depart at 11 a.m. It didn’t happen. In fact, the flight didn’t leave until around 3:30 pm, due to mechanical difficulties. The ‘old me’ would have been impatient, pissed off, a bit frustrated, irritated and downright not happy. But…

Earlier this week a friend of mine passed away on PEI. She was one of those people who truly made the world a better place… for every single person who knew her. She had an amazingly strong faith- in herself, and in others. She believed in the goodness that is within us all. She had…

Have you ever come across someone who is so positive about everything that you want to shout at them “Get real…life is not like that all the time”? That used to be me. Not the super positive person but the naysayer. I prided myself on being a ‘realist’ and grounded and thought I was doing…

How often do you get to reflect on a situation, a problem, a comment, a thought or a feeling you’ve just had? I mean to really take some time and look at it from new angles, view it with a different perspective, take off your ‘judger’ hat and do some deeper thinking about what brought…

Work- Life Balance is a pretty popular concept these days. Front page headlines feature it. Magazines do too. Google it and you will find thousands of items listed. Professional coaches often work with clients who are struggling with their own version of ‘work life balance’. Makes a person wonder… what’s all the fuss about? What’s…

Everything is relative, don’t you think? A few weeks ago, after a rather miserable and long month of rain and clouds, the sun came out. Well, it sort of came out, for part of the day. And wouldn’t you know, our entire neighborhood was out mowing lawns and gardening, smiling and waving to each other……

Some of us are blessed. We get to choose our work, and often are at liberty to choose something that we love, as our life’s work. You know in your core that you are working within your true vocation. Then there’s everybody else. Or so it seems. For the rest of us it seems that…

There are some people who know from an early age, what they want to be when they grow up. My brother was one of those people. From the time he was about eight years old, he discovered music . Our parents bought him a recorder and then he moved on to the flute. He’s made…

What’s the difference between the two, and how do you decide who you are looking for… a coach or a consultant? Well, it depends on what your particular situation is. So here are a few basics to keep in mind from my perspective. Professional coaches are experts in coaching. They’re probably also pretty good at…

As a life coach, I’m continuously in conversation with my clients about what’s important to them. And when I have sessions with my own life coach, I get to talk about what’s important to me. But there’s another kind of conversation I really enjoy having. It’s the one I have with myself. I always start…