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How to Lead a Balanced Life

How to live a balanced life? – Learning how to relax and renew yourself is a very important part of improving your productivity. Are you looking for more balance in your life? Most of us are and yet few know how to lead a balanced life. Maybe you can’t even imagine what it would be like to live a balanced life. In the western world, we overvalue productivity and [...]

How to Lead a Balanced Life2023-02-02T16:45:59-08:00

How to Achieve Your Big Goals?

Have you ever wondered how to achieve your big goals, such as finding a career that truly fulfills you, creating a positive relationship, or running a successful business? You are not alone! Today I want to share an insight I gained at choir practice. May this insight shed light on how to achieve your big goals with ease and joy. Imagine landing right on top of your desired destination. This [...]

How to Achieve Your Big Goals?2023-02-02T16:45:40-08:00

How to Boost Your Energy

  Feeling exhausted? – Learn How to Boost Your Energy Most of us are familiar with all-out energy drain – that exhausted, depleted  feeling. Even though it is really not fun to feel depleted, very few people take charge of their energy level. Most of us simply don’t know how and even where to start. The Internet is full of tips on what foods to eat and not to [...]

How to Boost Your Energy2023-02-02T16:45:49-08:00

Three Revealing Steps Towards Your Ideal Career

Today I am going to show you three revealing steps towards your ideal career path that you can take right away, no matter how frustrated and unhappy you feel in your current job. When stuck in a job that doesn’t fit, most of us tend to complain a lot.  I have been there and completely understand! However, each time you complain about your job, you spend precious life energy building up the [...]

Three Revealing Steps Towards Your Ideal Career2023-02-02T16:41:38-08:00

How to Deal with E-Mail Overload

When I answered the question: “How to deal with e-mail overload?” I could feel a sigh of relief going through the audience. All of the young professionals in attendance were feeling stressed because of their overflowing inbox. If you are feeling the same way, read on! I am about to share three golden tips for dealing with e-mail overload. […]

How to Deal with E-Mail Overload2015-05-15T16:40:36-07:00

How to Reach Your Goals with Ease and Joy

When my partner Chris and I decided last fall that we wanted to buy a home together, I suggested we use one of my favourite methods for reaching goals. I have used it for achieving many of my own personal and professional goals and, using this method have helped hundreds of coaching clients reach their goals. This method is based on mind-mapping. As defined in Wikipedia, “a mind map is a [...]

How to Reach Your Goals with Ease and Joy2020-02-13T15:00:33-08:00

To Give is to Receive

A charitable society, the Christmas Spirit Community Dinner, has created a wonderful tradition in Victoria. They have been organizing free Christmas dinners for low-income families for over 20 years. The Gettin’ Higher Choir has been contributing to this tradition by singing Christmas Carols while the families enjoy their meal. […]

To Give is to Receive2015-05-15T20:51:09-07:00

Your Presence is Precious – How to Relax in the Midst of the busy Holiday Season

The winter season always inspires me to turn inward. As we wait for the light to return, it is a special joy to connect with the light within, with our feelings of gratitude, love and compassion. Unfortunately, all too often we fill up the holiday season with too many things to do and to buy, which can leave us feeling and acting stressed. A reader of The Mini-Retreat Solution, let’s call [...]

Your Presence is Precious – How to Relax in the Midst of the busy Holiday Season2023-02-28T15:43:13-08:00

How to Relax While Waiting – A Whole New Appreciation for Red Lights

Last week, I facilitated a Mini-Retreat Workshop for a group of women. During the session I shared how to relax without taking any extra time, including at red traffic lights. This is always a popular part of my workshops, as most people feel relieved that they can find ways to relax without taking any extra time. Oftentimes a red traffic light feels like a stressor, a barrier that keeps you stuck [...]

How to Relax While Waiting – A Whole New Appreciation for Red Lights2015-05-15T20:42:05-07:00

A Lesson on How to Be More Patient

A year and a half ago I found myself in an awkward in-between-place in my life. After separating from my former partner, I moved into what turned out to be a very challenging rental situation. In addition to my heart-ache and difficult living situation, I caught a terrible cold that kept me house-bound for several weeks. As soon as I was physically strong enough to leave the house again, I began [...]

A Lesson on How to Be More Patient2020-02-13T15:03:02-08:00

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