I was starting to think something was seriously wrong. I was tired. So tired, that some days at work I would go home early and straight to bed at 4 pm.
I started trying different solutions – I stopped drinking coffee, started drinking green smoothies every day, and I was planning to get my thyroid levels tested.
But nothing worked.
It was one of the scariest decisions I have ever made in my life. The decision to leave teacher’s college and to throw what I thought was going to be my career path away.
Continue reading “Overcoming the fear that stands in your way”
Sometimes I cut people off. And I’m not proud of it.
As I rush to get off the subway I then notice the man with a cane that I’ve just cut in front of…
The last time I crashed a car, I was rushing too. On my way to yoga, ironically… But I was late and didn’t want to miss the class. The road was icy. I knew the road was icy, but thought somehow I was a super human driver.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Do something that scares you. Live a little. Start before you’re ready. You’ll never be ready.
I was delighted to find this note in the drawer of the table I was working at today.
I recently had someone ask me a terrifying question. He asked, if you could do anything what would you do?
And the part that was scary wasn’t that it was the first time anyone had ever asked me that.
It was that he was serious.
Ice-fishing huts, Manitoulin Island
I’ve been working on working on a book for a couple of years now and wanted to share some of the backstory of how I decided to write it and what I’ve learned from the process so far.
Have you ever had someone you don’t know that well, maybe someone at work or a friend of a friend, say why don’t we grab lunch sometime, or dinner? You get a sinking feeling in your stomach, but you say, ‘Sure! Sounds good…’
And then hope they never follow up with a date and time.
