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Why does history continue to repeat itself?   Perhaps it is because we fail to hold our self or others accountable and responsible. Expanding wellbeing in ourself, our workplaces, communities and politics requires that we always seek accountability.    Ask yourself, what is a critical process that, if improved, would reduce our inclination to continue to repeat our mistakes?   Once you identify your priority you can weigh the criticality of the process quite simply.   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation OR simply contract with me using one of these links:  1. For a Monthly Agreement -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TY23Z8ETZGP6A 2. For a Quarterly Agreement - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2QA9BGQSGPV2C Once a contract is completed you will be redirected to my calendar to schedule our first and subsequent conversations. Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our wellbeing is only possible with bodily autonomy.   In this episode I share the story of a woman who fought for women's full autonomy in the 19th Century.   Ask yourself, am I fully being who I'm meant to be and do I know who that is, so I can take the steps to become who I want to be or should be".   May all women realize their own self expression and all men realize there is no need to feel threatened by our desire to live our life on our terms. After all, men have been living on their own terms for, well, forever. I hope men, rather than trying to put women back in old boxes to control us, will see our fight for our autonomy as a reminder they can resist any unreasonable expectations too. Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation OR simply contract with me using one of these links:  1. For a Monthly Agreement -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TY23Z8ETZGP6A 2. For a Quarterly Agreement - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2QA9BGQSGPV2C Once a contract is completed you will be redirected to my calendar to schedule our first and subsequent conversations. Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Finding your unique wyrd (weird) and embracing it, is a key step to both success and greater wellbeing.   In this episode I share 4 steps to identify your WYRD.   Ask yourself, what if I allowed myself to live my wyrd and embrace my own unique destiny?    Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation OR simply contract with me using one of these links:  1. For a Monthly Agreement -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TY23Z8ETZGP6A 2. For a Quarterly Agreement - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2QA9BGQSGPV2C Once a contract is completed you will be redirected to my calendar to schedule our first and subsequent conversations. Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

How are you applying the benefits of focused alone time to expand your wellbeing and your success?   In this episode I share 4 clear reasons for cultivating meaningful solitary time. Listen, then schedule time with me to discuss how to make it work for you.   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation OR simply contract with me using one of these links:  1. For a Monthly Agreement -  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TY23Z8ETZGP6A 2. For a Quarterly Agreement - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=2QA9BGQSGPV2C Once a contract is completed you will be redirected to my calendar to schedule our first and subsequent conversations. Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

When we keep things simple and straightforward we move closer to clarity.   As a leader start by making your default mode curiosity. Being curious longer may actually ensure greater clarity.   Ask yourself: what if curiosity was my default mode? How would my feelings of wellbeing be enhanced by the clarity this may generate?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Sleep on a platter! If only it was so easy. Do the work to embed your sleep routine. In this episode I share how sleep in the most emotionally charged circumstances is essential to maintaining wellbeing. Ask yourself: how would a well honed sleep routine improve my life, well being and ability to realize the life I really want for myself?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Psychological Flexibility is a skill that generates and even breeds greater well-being. In this episode I outline a few key components of developing psychological flexibility, which is a primary determinant of mental health Ask yourself: how clear and aware am I of my own thoughts and emotions? What if I could observe them while accepting them fully? How could this level of consciousness serve my greater well-being becoming a catalyst for greater psychological flexibility in my workplace to improve overall performance and well being?     Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

WellBeing may be accessible when we release our need or even obsession with certainty.  Use the fear generated by uncertainty to make you better. In this episode I reflect on the uncertainty of our own mortality. In the time of the war in Ukraine and the continuation of the Pandemic, I consider my own mortality and experience with finding well-being in uncertainty. Ask yourself: In what area do I resist or block uncertainty and what will I learn if I embrace feeling uncertain allowing it to inform my growth and future wisdom?    Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Today, how would you define your feeling of well-being?  Is it enhanced by your choice to work/be alone or with others? If you could choose with whom and when you are engaging with others or free to work/be independent or on your own, would your feelings of well-being improve? In this episode I reflect on the results of a recent study about how choice (alone or in community) is fundamental to feelings of well-being. Ask yourself: How would I choose my work environment and circumstances to improve my feelings of well-being and what difference would it make? AND, how, as a leader can I offer choice to employees to improve well-being?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

WellBeing is often a product of our choices and actions.  Act, Measure and Evaluate; Adjust and Reiterate. In this episode I share a very brief story that reminded me this week about how we benefit from asking the dumbest question when we feel overwhelmed with a problem Ask yourself: What is the dumbest question I've avoided asking?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

WellBeing is key to both progress (success) and happiness (self-actualization). In this episode I speak to how we may consider reflecting differently on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Ask yourself: on what is my wellbeing built and how do I grow and preserve it for myself and those around me in moments it is  threatened?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Expressing affection for and even respect for another, expands feelings of well-being in you and them. Again I was inspired by the drama in Canada about the Convoy that has since left Ottawa. What drew otherwise law-abiding and reasonable Canadians to engage in sending a message. What attracted others, who wouldn't participate, to quietly support. What are the lessons to leaders? I refer to fringe in this episode. I am referencing the most hateful elements of this convoy: the misogynist, white supremacist, anti-semite and homophobic elements that cloaked themselves in the pain and anxiety of others. Those openly calling for the over-through of a democratically elected government. Ask yourself: How do I express respect for and affection for my colleagues so they are able to experience me as an ally and want to trust and engage with me? Look for how this expands overall wellbeing for them and your organization?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our well-being is expanded by our experience of agency. This week I was inspired by observing, from a distance, the "Freedom" Convoy that has a few locations across Canada. As I post this I hear a few have been cleared but still the "movement" stands as an example of wherein a greater sense of agency may have made all the difference. How can I expand my feeling of agency and drop the feeling of a victim in the midst of a pandemic during which my life was so deeply disrupted? HOW CAN I take responsibility to be empowered rather than allow my emotions to imprison me?   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our well-being is about knowing and choosing our priority and ensuring every decision and choice we make is aligned with this priority. In this episode I share how a client when completing her medical training learned how to stand up for her priority against a system that wanted her to comply with the hierarchy. She believes she is a better doctor now for having done so. How are you setting your main priorities to ensure they help expand your wellbeing and ensuring each decision you make aligns with it? Honour your own wellbeing and you will see increased health, wealth and happiness in the long term.   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Our values, whether core or acquired, are the source of  and means to our individual and collective well-being. #WellBeing will spring from our willingness to discover explore and live up to our own values in a mature way. Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community. Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

When a leader uses certainty to manage behaviour, it often back-fires.  WellBeing requires that leaders inform and engage rather than manipulate with certainty when navigating crisis. Listen to learn my simple 3 step antidote to losing trust and respect with over certainty. It will enhance and expand well-being for your team, organization and community. Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

For what are you willing to risk your health? When we realize our well-being is far beyond the absence of illness, we will do the work to foster the habits and patterns in which it will thrive. In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating illness and learning the value in nurturing well-being in a balanced way. Hear about my well-being pie and try out your own.  Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

Emotions are a pesky part of being human.  If you try to eliminate them from your life experience, good luck! Emotions will not be denied. Emotions are like debt, if ignored, they will grow more difficult to manage in time. To experience #wellbeing we do well to learn how to harness them in a healthy way. In this episode I share a personal journey of navigating negative emotions over the past month to demonstrate an intervention for well-being.  Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

So much has been imposed on us these past two years and for good reason: collective health and well-being. Perhaps it will do us all well to take charge of our own well-being as a focus in 2022. What each of us needs may be different and when we adapt our approach for our needs we feel deeply empowered. Join me to make this shift for yourself. Suggested reflection: FOR WHAT AM I OPTIMIZING? Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.

"It is time to change our attitude!" When we choose our attitude we can choose to expand out grit. Our capacity to persist is expanded when we focus primarily on progress - one foot in front of another. Together we've got this. 2021 theme: resilience December topic: GRIT Weekly Focus: interventions for Grit Reflection Question: where do I start? How will developing my grit help me navigate 2022 more effectively   Walk with me:    Take the GRIT Scale and see where you land. Take the VIA strengths survey TODAY to evaluate where to focus.. Try out The BIG SIX and learn about your personality tendencies. Book a complimentary  Exploratory Conversation Follow or Connect with Me on LINKEDIN Additionally, check out my joint effort in the creation of a YouTube channel: Illuminate 2 Generate NEW episodes coming soon.