In honour of #BellLetsTalk Day 2018, here’s an excerpt from my book, The Treasure You Seek, available at Indigo, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
January 27, 2016
“There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Continue reading
Month: January 2018 (Page 1 of 2)
Author Beau Taplin said, “Human beings are made of water – we were not designed to hold ourselves together, rather run freely like oceans and rivers.”
We were meant to run freely. Continue reading
On January 26, 1950, 68 years ago, the Republic of India was born. For decades a quiet lawyer named Mahatma Ghandi had led a peaceful fight to gain independence from Britain. Continue reading
I watched a TED Talk the other day by motivational speaker Caroline McHugh called The Art of Being Yourself.
Caroline said, “When you figure out how to be yourself it’s an incredibly liberating, untragic way to go through life. You don’t develop an identity that’s predicated on being a patchwork personality. You’re not a composite, an amalgam, of all your experiences and influences. You’re not just somebody’s boss, or somebody’s mom, or anybody’s anything. You’re yourself.” Continue reading
When the Jacksonville Jaguars met the New England Patriots yesterday to vie for a spot at the Super Bowl, many pundits said it would be a David versus Goliath scenario. The Patriots, along with their quarterback Tom Brady, have been at the Super Bowl seven times before this season. What chance did the Jaguars have? Continue reading
The other day I saw a video of Anthony Bourdain talking about his life. He said at age 44, he was cooking in a restaurant and thought he would never catch up on his rent or his taxes or pay down his credit cards. He was surviving. He had written an article about the restaurant world and the editor of a local free paper told him he would print it. Anthony thought it would be a laugh for the others he worked with so every week he would run to the corner to see if his article made it into the paper. But it was never there. Continue reading
As I sat watching the Darkest Hour in a theatre on Winston Churchill Boulevard, it was not lost on me. The larger than life British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, played brilliantly by Gary Oldman, was portrayed as the human that he was. Which made the story all the more touching. Continue reading
I recently read about George Dantzig. He was a math student at Berkeley in 1939. He arrived late for class one day and saw two problems written on the board which he assumed was homework. So he jotted them down. He found them quite challenging and it took him a few days but he solved them. He went back to his professor and said sorry it took him so long but should he still hand his work in. The professor told him to throw it on his desk. A few weeks later his professor excitedly told George that he had actually solved two unsolved problems. They weren’t homework at all. The professor had written them down and explained to the students that no one had ever found an answer for them. Continue reading
I’m reading a book called Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck. She talks about fixed and growth mindsets and it is so interesting.
If someone has a fixed mindset, they believe they were born as they will always be. They might believe they are good at swimming and bad at math and it can’t be changed. So if they fail at something, they feel it shows their weakness. They don’t think, “I failed.” They think, “I am a failure.” People with a fixed mindset don’t believe you have to work at something you’re good at. If you’re good at it, it should come easily to you. Continue reading
I wasn’t in a good mood when I arrived at the car dealership. My 2015 van had another issue and the decision had been made to replace it. I sat in the financier’s office and she started taking down information for the car loan. She said her son was born around the same time as I was, but he was in heaven. I asked what happened. She said he was driving to work at age 16 with two other teens and was killed in a car accident. She said he was a lovely boy who wrote poems and played soccer in Europe and stopped bullies. Continue reading