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1 year ago

5 ways to improve your listening skills

John Ballem💻(jballem.com) · Listening is every bit as important as speaking. People who give others the opportunity to be heard and understood earn their trust and loyalty. · 1. Be in the moment, stay in the moment. · Have you ever found yourself speaking to someone and noticed that they seem distracted by ...

2 years ago

Dark and Scary Times

Royce Shook ·  As we move through the journey of life, we face many dark and scary times. Some of these dark times are caused by others and events over which we have little or no control. A car crash, a power outage, a hurricane, a sudden unexpected death, or the realization that a loved one h ...

3 years ago

New years Resolutions have you met your or have you relapsed?

Royce Shook · We are living in dangerous times but at the beginning of the year, we were looking forward to a new and bright future. Many of us made new years resolutions to help us plan for a better year or a better us. With all of the uncertainty around us maybe it is time to try to focus an ...

3 years ago

Pseudo Retirement: Or The Life Lessons I Am Learning At The Moment

Jim Murray · My wife and I moved to St Catharines from the hustle and bustle of Toronto at around this time of year, three years ago now. · She had retired from her school administrator position and really didn’t see hanging around in Toronto as any sort of viable option. And since this, mean ...

3 years ago

Life can change in a moment:

Royce Shook · I was talking to a retired lawyer at a workshop and he was telling me his life story and he casually mentioned that he had survived a fire and that as a result of that fire, he had burns over 40% of his body. He went on to explain that the hardest part of his recovery was how to ...

4 years ago

Its not the path but the destination

Royce Shook · What holds us back, sometimes inertia stops us from doing what we want to do. Sometimes it is fear that stops forward progress. As we get older, fear and inertia become bigger enemies. I have a friend who has been diagnosed with vascular dementia and he has been told that he has ...

4 years ago

Moments — shortcuts don't work

Graham🐝 Edwards · As the seminar was coming to an end she emphatically stated — · “Shortcuts don’t work!”  It’s not that I hadn’t heard this before, or that I don’t understand what it means, but for some reason it seemed to resonate with me deeply — maybe it was her enthusiasm, or maybe her convic ...

4 years ago

Moments — a most human endeavour...

Graham🐝 Edwards · As good friends are apt to do I enjoyed a good meal and honest conversation the other night; when we weren’t serious we were laughing out loud. And being the generous type, we are also apt to invite others into the conversation, · We are familiar enough with the people who have t ...

4 years ago

Moments — 86,400 seconds

Graham🐝 Edwards · I’m not sure she meant to be so loud when she lamented, “There is just not enough time in the day”. She was though, and I heard her from the other side of the room. · One day. 24 hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds **. This is all we get to work with. This is all the time we get ...

4 years ago

Moments — a moment in time

Graham🐝 Edwards · It was hidden in a box and forgotten. Correction, some people knew there was a box and generally knew what was in it — although arguably, this did mean it was forgotten. I only found it through happenstance when I was looking for something else. · If I was to guess I’d say the p ...

4 years ago

Moments — the beauty that's in a pause.

Graham🐝 Edwards · Sometimes, if you happen to take the time to look, you may see something that will cause you take a moment and pause — and in that pause you may simply take the time to appreciate what you are experiencing, or take the time to wonder, or to question something, or even change the ...

4 years ago

Moments — where you are.

Graham🐝 Edwards · When you are able to get away from the bright lights of the city you are given the opportunity to look up; it's a glimpse, if you're philosophical, that offers perspective.  · Surrounded by stars, you can't help but self reflect — figuratively or literally, you are drawn into con ...

5 years ago

Moments — two times two wheels

Graham🐝 Edwards · It was a wonderful morning to ride — the sun was out, the wind was down, and the country air filled the lungs; it was one of those moments when someone says, "It's a great day to be alive".  · But no one did.What someone did say was they'd just got the tags for their motorcycle a ...

5 years ago

Take Some Risks

Royce Shook · There is a classic image of a retired senior driving with their turn signals continuously on and poking along 20 miles under the speed limit on the highway. A popular comedian once quipped that if he was 80 years old, he would “drive like hell” since, after all, why not take some ...

5 years ago

As a reminder — your agenda isn't necessarily everyone else's...

Graham🐝 Edwards · The world of late has reminded me of a "coachable moment" I offered up a lifetime ago... or at least it feels like a lifetime ago.He stuck his head into my office with concern written all over his face; with all decorum set aside, he needed me to look at an email he just sent and ...

5 years ago

10 Things I Know For Sure At The Moment

Jim Murray · This post was conceived a last fall when I was watching the poor people of Houston Texas, trying to make the best of a bag of shit that had been handed to them by Nature. · Specifically, some cameraman was traveling along a road into Houston and was photographing a continuous lin ...

5 years ago

Take some risks

Royce Shook · There is a classic image of a retired senior driving with their turn signals continuously on and poking along 20 miles under the speed limit on the highway. A popular comedian once quipped that if he was 80 years old, he would “drive like hell” since, after all, why not take some ...

5 years ago

Moments — are we letting people do too much for us?

Graham🐝 Edwards · If you ever get to drive a Subaru BRZ you will find it is a very tight car to drive — the steering responses quickly and so do the brakes, and the clutch is nice and smooth. · So when it isn't, you should appreciate something is wrong.Recently I was driving along minding my own b ...

5 years ago

The Therapeutic Effects Of Tuning Out

Jim Murray · I have been going through a lot of what can only be defined as intellectual turmoil these days. · I’m sure I am not alone in this. · As a writer, part of my job is to pay attention to the world and all the things that are happening in it. · Theoretically, this provides me with so ...

5 years ago

Moments — lightning and thunder.

Graham🐝 Edwards · The rain pounded on the canvas roof —  for an instant the room was bright as day, faded to night, and a crash of thunder followed. Whether it was the pounding rain or the thunder that woke me I could not say but I lay there and listened to something that was so much bigger than m ...

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