Three Ways the 5AM Club is Making Me a Better Parent
Waking up early has long been a tenet of leadership guru Robin Sharma. In his recent book, The 5AM Club, he outlines tactics for making mornings active, focused and super productive – “own your morning, elevate your life” is a…
Five Ways to Win Like the Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors host the NBA Finals tomorrow. It’s the first time in the franchise’s 25-year history that they’ve gone so far in the postseason. A combination of resilience, diverse abilities and a focus on winning as a team have…
Three Ways to Make Your Own Luck
Growing personally and professionally in service of your community’s needs takes a little bit of luck. In our lives we will meet mentors and sponsors at dinner parties or sporting events who end up opening doors in our careers. Circles…
Three Adaptability Lessons from Pasta
Pasta can teach us things like being resilience and having a growth mindset.
Three Growth Mindset Tips from Old People at Swimming Pools
One of my lifetime goals is to cultivate an unbreakable and everlasting growth mindset. This is on display in swimming pools. Especially with senior citizens. Watching an elderly person dive off the 10-meter platform into the pool (or just to…
How to Cultivate an Owners Mindset
Today I turn 38 years old. Well into my late-30s and with a stronger sense of myself, I find myself reflecting daily about how I show up as a parent, colleague, friend, and leader in my community. Academics like Carol…
Want to be Agile? Be like Water!
I’ve been thinking a lot about water recently. My Vancouver friends won’t find this surprising given the time of year – it rains a lot in Vancouver in January and this year has been far from an anomaly. And despite…
Four Project Management Lessons from the Fyre Festival
The Fyre festival was supposed to be a luxury music festival starring models and social media “influencers” on Pablo Escobar’s island in the Exumas. Instead, festival goers arrived to chaos – the luxury villas were emergency shelter tents, the gourmet…
Four Holiday Gift Ideas from The Potentiality Team
Every year our team shares gift ideas for the holiday season that will enhance your personal potential and support your journey of building healthy communities at home, at work, at school, and in your neighbourhood. Kurt, Mike, Godfrey, and I…
Nine Ways that I use my Grad Degree Every Day
The 100 year anniversary of the end of the First World War was on Sunday, November 11, 2018. My major research paper in graduate school focused on the cultural history of the Great War, specifically how a satirical British magazine…