CoachingLife
Use Curiosity to Trump Judgment
Being critical of ourselves or others is a pretty common affliction. I say affliction as there are certainly places where we want to be critical and judge the merits of a particular action or...
Blog
Thoughts on swordplay, mastery, coaching, teaching, and living with intention.
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Life
A Mantra for Change
There are many things we may want to change about ourselves or our circumstances at any given moment but change must come through acceptance. When we rail against the strictures of our life they bind...
DanceSwordplay
Invest Time in Body Maintenance
As a martial artist and a dancer I have become intimately aware of the condition of my body. I want it to last for a long time and I want it to be able to perform for me to the best of its capacity...
Productivity
Resolving to Resolve this New Year's
The thing I hate about New Year's resolutions is that they only come once per year. If you set some meaningful change for your life and fall off the wagon by February it takes an entire year before...
Creativity
Creative People Don't Limit Themselves
An amazing thing I have witnessed about creative people — they don’t limit the realms of their creation. I’ve loved watching interviews with Joss Whedon, Peter Jackson, Joni Mitchell, and many others...
Coaching
Deepen Your Retention By Passing Learning Forward
At the end of my swordplay classes I offer 10 minute blocks of coaching to all of my students. In these 10 minute blocks I do my best to find one important thing to give to a particular student that...
Relationships
Honour Your Relationships Through Transparency
One of the most powerful ways you can honour a relationship is through transparency. Transparency is the act of sharing your internal process with someone. By sharing your internal motivations and...
Life
Putting Yourself on the Same Side of the Table
A client of mine was recently filling in for the head instructor of a personal training practice during her maternity leave. This is not the first time she’s filled in for this instructor before and...
Life
It’s Worth Saying the Same Thing Someone Else has Said
When I was doing research for my very first blog post (not the first to appear here but the first I wrote) I came across 10 articles that were essentially identical to the one I had drafted. That was...
Life
Moving Toward Things That Scare You
This is a mantra of mine right now. "I move toward things that scare me." it has been pretty powerful. It doesn't mean I leap into things that are way over my head. Just that I ask myself to always...