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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All of us feel stuck at some point in our lives, and it’s no wonder. The scientific community suggests that the average adult makes approximately 35,000 decisions each day…
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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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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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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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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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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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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”.
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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I spent a few days in Toronto recently, and while I loved the energy of being in a big city, something interesting happened when I took a shortcut through a tiny park beside St James’ Church.
Every now and then, the stars align in a way that make things clearer for me that they were before. When that happens, I like to share.
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If you fly as much as I do I’m sure you’ll be with me on this. From the time I leave for the airport, I just want to get the show on the road. Once I’m on the plane, I don’t want to hear about the hockey. I don’t want to overhear the last minute calls making sure the goldfish gets fed.
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With Christmas bearing down on us like a train, I wanted to share a great book with you that you might want to consider gifting to a friend. Actually, do yourself a favour and gift it to yourself first…
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People often ask me who my heroes are, expecting I think my response to include perhaps a famous mountaineer, a sporting legend; or some other historical figure. I see the look of recognition in their eyes; the “aha, I get it” as I list them out:
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