Values are a way of knowing yourself better by naming what’s important to you. When you have a solid idea of who you are, it grounds you. You become more confident and less reactive to the ideas and opinions of other people. People who know themselves are comfortable and pleasant to be around.

As a person who prefers to bow out of hopeless situations before they become excruciating or life-threatening, I have never related to a reality show competitor more. Or at all, really.

It’s pretty common knowledge by now that sleep is important, and that we should make an effort to get the right amount of quality sleep.

Sleep’s little sister, rest, doesn’t get so much attention.
But rest is important, too. Getting enough good rest can make your days and evenings, help prevent burnout, and reduce mistakes and accidents.

Even in the darkest times, art and community provide pockets of hope and joy.

Humans are fallible — we get distracted, we forget, we have competing commitments which subconsciously pull us away from doing what we value.

Structure is the antidote. If something is important, it's absolutely okay to create structure around it — no matter how awkward, unspontaneous, or weird it seems.

There's a myth of the lone artist, the reclusive genius, and sometimes withdrawing, temporarily, can result in great art. But much more often, Mozarts need their Haydns. Group of Seven members need their other six.

The COVID pandemic has been the longest and most intense emergency I’ve lived through, and in the spring of 2020 I realized that my emergency plan failed to address something very important: people.

There's more to your mind than just the grey stuff inside your skull. In fact, your mind is a complicated system that includes and relies on all kinds of external resources. These resources help with every aspect of cognition: remembering, focusing, analyzing, and more.

Sometimes it takes a profound shift in mindset for someone to make a change in their work or life. An epiphany, a whole new perspective, maybe even hitting rock bottom.

And sometimes, it just takes a new trick.

Over the course of the last week, I attended nine seminars and workshops at the International Coach Federation Toronto Chapter's annual conference. I learned about the brain, the body, and myself.

Gatekeeping gets in the way of sharing work, which is bad because you have something of value to share. The solution is to do an end run around gatekeepers by self-publishing.

With flexibility in your schedule, you'll have time to think, learn, and make changes. You'll also have time to respond to a crisis or opportunity.