How would you answer this simple question? Who are you? I recently posed this question to participants at the Awards and Personalization Industry Expo in Las Vegas where I was speaking on the topic of Corporate Culture, Reputation and Values. Actually, I pose this question to most every group I work with regardless of whether […]
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I grew up in Alabama, and tornados were a part of life. My parents made sure we were prepared in that we had a home with a basement, shelves stocked with canned foods, jugs of water, flashlights and blankets – in case we were ever trapped. My father had his trusted weather-ban radio on, and
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This below post was made in 2017; however it’s topic is still timely. I wonder what we will learn in the 2020 Super Bowl game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs So, Super Bowl Sunday just passed, and there is much that could be discussed from the incredible 4th quarter comeback
Are You Sitting on the Sidelines of Life? Get in the Game! Read More »
My Montreal bookclub, lovingly named The Dead Tree Society, recently read Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild. The discussion following was like girls at camp playing truth or dare, but only truths were an option! In Strayed’s book, she hikes the Pacific Crest Trail to find herself again after feeling lost and spiralling from a series of
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Let me just start by saying I am NOT a super mom. In fact, I am not a super anything. Superwoman, superfly (is that still a thing?), superstitious, or superficial. I am simply me. When it comes to my role as a Mom, that means I have left dishes in the sink (for days) to
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“He doesn’t love me!”” She doesn’t even have the capacity to love!” “ My mom never even liked me”. “My father loved no one.” These are a sample of statements I’ve heard from clients over the years. They are indisputable facts for their experience. They are the foundation for all they believe about what love
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As I write, I am traveling onboard a Delta CRJ 700 at an approximate 35,000 foot altitude from Montreal to Atlanta. My window on the world reveals a canvas of blue, with shades from baby to indigo. The canvas is underlined by puffs and streaks of white like a tabletop sparsely covered by cotton tufts
Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude – Is Your Head Above the Clouds? Read More »
I believe everything in life is a relationship; social, intimate, community, career, family, God (creator/universe) and self… yes, self! I’ll save ‘self’ for another day and time. Here’s a story about my relationship with God …and death. As a mom who buried my first born child, my relationship with God and death has known bitterness.
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On this Canadian Thanksgiving, I have much to share. I haven’t written in awhile as this past year, I have been more private as I grieved the loss of my Mother. However, much has happened for which I am grateful including a summer filled with weddings and celebrations for family and friends as well as
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