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Just around the corner in a few short weeks, as we begin a new year, many people will reflect on various aspects of their lives.  While we know that most resolutions tend to fail within weeks or months, it is wise instead to reassess our intentions and habits while embracing the resolve to do what it takes to augment our life satisfaction.   Typically, many of our best habits tend to whither unless we pay attention to them and make the effort to maintain them consistently.  Similarly a garden is not likely to flourish with abundant blooms unless we attend to it and nurture it. In areas of life such as health, relationships, career and finance, many of us have the tendency, gradually, to lose sight of the imperatives; that which matters most. Hence, often...

At this time of year, workplaces are filled with busy people, and according to current stats, most employees are not experiencing the satisfaction they yearn for at work. And given the current trends in the workplace making job security increasingly precarious, more and more knowledgeable people are growing an entrepreneurial mindset with the burning desire to launch their own business.  As a life and business coach for the past 10 years, I have helped numerous clients to determine if they possess or could develop what it takes to be successful leading their own enterprise. I remember what it was like for me, many years ago, to make the entrepreneurial decision and set out to learn all about it through a 48 weeks course on business start-up.  If the...

I was recently in Victoria leading an all-day seminar on the 10 success factors of turning retirement into a purposeful and dynamic re-engagement.  When the first participant – Doug – arrived, he said with a teasing tone “you can’t teach about retirement, you don’t have any gray hair”.  I appreciated his sense of humour and showed him that in fact there were many gray hairs around my temples and that I’m in the process of allowing the rest of my grey hairs to be honored as symbol of wisdom. That moment of interaction with him helped me to put to rest the dilemma I had from time to time about whether or not to color my hair for the purpose of covering the newly emerging grey.  Now I’ve decided to honour rather than conceal those symbols of wisdom.  That’s...

While they say “location” is everything in real estate, in the coaching and human potential world we say perspective is largely what determines our state of mind, our ability to find joy and to shape our life.  We all know about the simplified metaphor of whether we perceive the glass as being half full or half empty.  Yet, when it comes to perception, there’s a complex set of factors and dynamics that come into play, affecting the lens through which we see.  If we find ourselves in a challenging place on our life path, it may be good to take a distance from our circumstances to grasp the larger perspective surrounding this challenge.  From such a greater perspective, we can remind ourselves that “this too shall pass”.    From there we can also see the road we...

Having sold out the first printing of my book, I have recently arranged for my publisher to turn it into an ebook which is kinder on the environment, convenient to read on your laptop or tablet.  It is now ready and available in the bookstore on this site. If you are among the boomers generation, in midlife or beyond, you may at times be wondering what happened to the shinning ideals we held at the heart of our younger years.  Gently, yet boldly, this book guides you in the imperative of self-reflection while you rethink midlife and retirement as a purposeful re-engagement.  Replete with real-life stories, powerful insights and questions to ponder, this book will help you to reignite your potential and passions while freeing up your creativity and your generosity...

From stock market fluctuations to tragic events such as the bomb that exploded at the Boston Marathon, we are constantly reminded that life is precarious and that unpredictability prevails in our world.  So how do we compose with living in such uncertain times; not only that the possibility of violence exists but that economic uncertainty is also a significant issue among so people worldwide. Over the past couple of years, I have observed people arriving in my coaching practice preoccupied by fears and anxiety.  As we work through the complexity of understanding the fears, uprooting them, using techniques to curtail anxieties and shifting perspectives, clients learn to become much more resourceful,  poised and confidently focused on positive outcomes rather than...