Joyful Resilience
Hard things reveal character and unlock potential. Also, hard things to align in our worklife are joy and resilience (we don’t often experience elation when we’re bouncing back from setbacks or reflecting on failure), even if we want to work…
Four Leadership Lessons from our Reconciliation Journey
As a member of Vancity’s leadership development program I am on a journey to become a better leader. Engaging in deep self-reflection, peer-mentoring and self-directed learning with the intention of creating new habits that help me to be more present,…
Stop killing it
Describing how we kill stuff like exams, exercise routines, and/or big meals, reflects a shortcoming of creativity in North America (where such phrases are used most often). I believe that we should stop “killing it”. The casual language and colloquialisms…
Five Reasons Why You Should Have a Place of Zen
I’m spending next week at my family home in Merville, British Columbia. It’s where I grew up and it’s my place of Zen. If people are the soul of our communities then our souls also connect to physical spaces that…