Competitive athletes – at least back when I was competing – talk about hitting the wall. ‘Hitting the wall’ means you just give everything you’ve got to cross the line – to complete the race. I had that experience once in my life...
It’s been just over a month since my mom died and I’m facing my first Mother’s Day without her. The wound is still raw and I know that I’ll spend Sunday thinking of my mom and the intangible things she gave me – like courage and an...
We’ve all heard the saying: “it’s better to give than to receive.” However, generous self-giving is not always so simple in practice. We’ve all seen situations were individuals encounter more fatigue and sorrow in their self-giving than...
I love all my electronic gadgets – texting, tweeting, pinning and posting … but if you never take the relationship further, the interactions can remain quite superficial. I was reminded of this fact by Mari Smith in her great book ‘The New...
Two weeks ago I received the phone call we all dread – get home as fast as you can….and so I began my cross-country journey to get home in time to say a final good-bye to my mother. When I walked off the plane at midnight in Saskatoon, and saw my father...
If you had your life to live over – what would you do differently? It’s a provocative question to think about. Dr. Tim Lau gets to ask that question everyday – and the answers he gets may surprise you. Watch the third interview with Dr. Lau and let...
A lesson learned from Dr. Lau’s patients is that happiness does not depend on whether or not you have control of your life. It is not so much control over events but our attitude towards those events that have an impact on our level of happiness. In this...
On Friday I had the delightful opportunity to work with a number of individuals who were finishing up our Fit Minds Cognitive Coach Certification course. We spent the afternoon reviewing the materials and the Interact program. They all had different reasons for taking...
Dr. Tim Lau, geriatric psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health unit has been speaking all around the country on the topic of happiness…so much so that he now has the moniker ‘The Happiness Doctor’. He has looked in-depth at the whole idea of...
It’s really important to be professional and aim for excellence in your chosen field or occupation. But each profession has its Achilles heel…where professionalism become ‘professionalitis’. We’ve all experienced it – where the...
