Secrets of how change junkies struggle with boredom, thrive in chaos
What the heck is a change junkie?
When the term 'change junkie' applies to me, I would say I am a person who is always looking for new information, a person who is never content with what is going on around but instead searches for the next project. I get a wee rush not knowing what is around the next corner, and I thrive under...
Serendipitous Canal Du Midi Boat Tour
"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else"
If you are lucky this happens.
You are on vacation and all the stars line up for a serendipitous experience. Maybe you are at a resort and the maid brings you back to her house for a home cooked meal...
40 Before 40
December 14th 2012 was my 39th birthday, and I have made a list of the forty places I wish to visit over the course of the next year before turning the big four oh and specifically what I would like to see and do there.
Last year when we started our adventure in Europe, Kelley Scarsbrook launched her 40 before...
How to Concur Hiraeth through Empowerment? Pursue Personal Happiness
"Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
After reading books like; The Secret, The Happiness Project, Eat Pray Love, Deepak Chopra The Book of Secrets, The Power of Now, The Alchemist, Dr. Phil's Life Strategies; I started a happy thought journal on Oprah's suggestion, exercised each day, slept 8 hour per night, and ate right....
Exodus Vancouver – Shallow Breathing
When you own your own breath no one can steal your peace. Author Unknown
When I lived in Kits between lives, I took up yoga. It was there that I learned to master the full Yogic breath. You start to inhale slowly as much as you can, hold for a moment, and then inhale a wee bit more. Feel the breath completely fill...
Secret key to a successful quest
What is a quest? 'A long or arduous search for something.'
It happens to be the most prominent theme of the book The Hobbit written by J.R.R. Tolkien; the transformation of the Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He starts off a shy creature living in the shire, small and meek, with a...
French New Years Resolutions
Live your Life's Dream!
Do what you have always wanted to do and everything falls into place. Pursuing your own happiness, accomplishing the things that actually make you happy and not what you think should make you happy, could be the answer.
Instead of making the same resolutions as New Years past, to lose 10 pounds, drink less, and stop yelling...
Expat and Third Culture Kids
Third Culture Kids (TCK) refers to children integrating aspects of their first culture and their new culture, creating a unique “third culture”.
Kate from Flight of the Wines Poured shared with me some of her experiences as a Third Culture Kid now all grown up living in southern France. I had never even heard the term before, nor thought there was others like...
Leadership without religion, the Age of Aquarius and happiness
'Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.' Deepak Chopra
After class today I thought, wow, what an awesome time in world history we live in! I asked a group of students between...