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Are you really here? In a podcast interview I did recently I talked a bit about parenting. I talked about how I was always physically present with my kids.  I did all the things a…

Creating Joy Last night at our men’s group we talked about finding joy. We talked about the importance of taking a moment to find the joy in our lives. Maybe more importantly we talked about…

Success Comes When… It is so easy in this world that seems to value material things to get caught up in the race. Working hard to acquire all the ‘things’ that make us successful. For…

You Are Stronger Than You Know Last night I watched the conclusion of Big’s Back Yard Ultra. This is an incredible event where runners run a 4 mile loop over and over. They are required…

Consume Something That Challenges Your Beliefs In a world full of algorithms that feed us content that constantly caters to our online behaviours it is easy to live in an echo chamber. We are continually…

Sometimes we have to do the things we least desire… Some days we really do not feel like doing the things that we need to do. It is when we can get past that and…

With Awareness Comes Choice I first heard this truism from Eckert Tolle. We can’t change what we can’t see. As men we tend to get so busy in our lives that it is easy to…

Focus on Becoming More… For many years I chased all of the ‘things’. I chased the material items. The fancy car (I bought a Porsche when I was 26), the oceanfront apartment, the 6 figure…

Time To Shine! Last night at our Connect’d Men’s group, we followed up with our conversation on Emotional Avoidance. One of the things that came up was the fact that a lot of us had…