You can hear a pin drop in every audience I’m in front of when I tell them that living life with no legs is not a big deal…

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Blind to Disability

I’m sure you heard the news last week about four Paralympian’s running a time fast enough to have gotten gold if they had been competing two weeks earlier at the Olympics.

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The Wall of Fear

A few weeks ago I had the amazing opportunity to act as a mentor to a group of five teenagers with varying abilities as they learnt to scuba dive in the Cayman Islands.

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Reframing for Resilience

So the *$#& has just hit the fan and you need to be more resilient.

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You’re not done yet…

Learning that is. We strive; we set goals. We use phrases like “I’m getting there” (or at least I do) to indicate our progress toward a set point; a destination.

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By the time you need to draw on your resilience; it’s too late…

I live in Alberta, Canada. You may not know this, but Alberta is Canada’s oil province; kind of like Texas is for the US.

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You don’t need to be more resilient. Unless you want to stay in business.

Resilience is a funny thing. We only need it when things go wrong. The rest of the time it’s something for others to worry about.

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Change your Self-Perception; Change your Life

You’ve heard the phrase “You get what you focus on”. Or in my words, “How you see is what you get”.

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Opportunities in Health

Some of the most rewarding events for me as a keynote speaker are when I get to speak to people in healthcare.

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Flip the Switch

If you’ve heard me use the phrase before “When you change the way you see the world, you change the world”, there’s a good chance that the image that comes to mind is one of massive change…

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Do what you can. With what you’ve got.

Inspired by my friend Will Gadd’s story of how he, one of the worlds most prolific athletes when it comes to all things extreme, found himself settled back on the couch feeling sorry for himself with a broken finger.

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Do what you can, with what you’ve got (take two).

After a year of rehab, I finally found out last week that the shoulder injury I’ve been dealing with isn’t really an injury. That is, it’s not something that can be fixed, with surgery or without, but is simply “worn out”.

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Time for a new lens?

Last week, while speaking to a group of healthcare professionals working towards a goal unimaginable a decade ago, that of a HIV/ AIDS Free Generation, a woman in the audience asked how we could work towards removing the stigma surrounding HIV/ AIDS.

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Is it possible to be too authentic this Halloween?

With Halloween upon us, I thought you might appreciate this funny story from the archives of “weird stuff that happens when you have no legs…”

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Climbing out of Addiction and Depression

Imagine for a moment that you’re skipping through a mountain meadow; the sun shining on your beaming face; a gentle breeze blows on your cheeks so that you are not too hot; not too cold. Birds are chirping…

motivational speaker, keynote speaker, inspirational speaker, Warren Macdonald blogWarren MacdonaldMarch 25, 2015ice climbing, depression, crisis, Margo Talbot, addiction, TEDx Canmore Comments