Recently, as I drove home at the end of my working week, I thought about an evening relaxing on the sofa, with a few drinks and watching TV. I didn’t really pay much attention to the glorious sunshine, which is unusual for me. I guess that I was just tired. ...
Clarity is…. PLayFuL? Pokemon Go is the latest craze. My business partner, Taylor R. Powers, leveled up when trying to explain it to me. I need games explained. My son is a total fanboy of all things YouTubers. We live in the world of online games. When I was a...
Pursuing a passion. Learning while having fun. Although I’ve made it my business to share with others the benefits of improv for life, I decided to return to the ‘classroom’ and become an improv student once again. A few months ago, when I was talking with my aunt...
Clarity is… courage Courage means that we won’t stop trying to do something simply because we were worried about it. Courage means that we’ll fully evolve, grow, clarify who we are, no matter the criticisms against us. Courage means that we will...
Positive Psychology is often criticised for focusing on happiness and ignoring the myriad of negative experiences and accompanying emotions that we all have. However this is an over simplification. While Positive Psychology does focus on moving people towards a...
Real struggle disrupts our sense of wellbeing, security and happiness. Struggles are specific to each individual but common themes include breakdown/ loss of families and close relationships, career and financial issues, illness, disability and mistreatment by others....
Before we can do anything else, we have to find our center. We have to create a common core that doesn’t complicate our lives, but instead, sets us up for a balanced, healthy, happy life. Unrealistic? No. Not if we’re free to choose. When we have a core...
Strong emotional boundaries are essential for our wellbeing, they are a sign of confidence, worthiness and self-preservation, they say: this is what is OK for me and this is what is not. You’d be surprised how many people lack such boundaries – including me up until a...
For years I have considered myself a procrastinator. I am always full of ideas; plans and goals but seem to lack the initiative to actually get them off the ground. I first learnt the word at the ripe old age of 19, when I was living and working in Toronto. I was...
While reading Adrianna Huffington’s book Thrive, she described a very simple, yet effective task that resonated with me. She wrote about the way we interpret the things that we have to do and suggested that instead of thinking about them as tasks that we have to...