True or False: The following career advice is awesome… Studies show that people with a university education make more money. Therefore, get yourself a formal education, even if you can’t afford it, preferably from a prestigious university. Your degree will ensure that you gain employment and have all the skills you need if you want to bust out on your own. When you go for that job, find one where the roles and expectations are clear. Follow the rules and you’ll have security and move up and make more and more money. Try to go for something that you enjoy, but
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How to Fail with Joyful Enthusiasm
I’m at the pool and my kiddo bounds out of his swim lesson and begs to show me his new tricks. I stand poolside while he jumps in and sets himself up to push off the edge and do something awesome. His feet slip all over and he can’t seem to get his footing without his face plunging under water. Face back out, he takes a breath and loses his feet. He tries again. And again. Thrashing and plunging, then stabilizing. Over and over. He’s not getting it. I’m standing there, patiently amused, enjoying how adorable he is in one
Do you want attention? Do you feel badly about that? Knock it off.
Some people like attention. I like attention. Some people don’t like having attention on them. That’s not me. I don’t require all the attention and I love giving my attention to others. Probably not so true of my childhood self. Mom said I didn’t play so well by myself. I’d talk non-stop and demand her full engagement. I used to feel embarrassed when I’d hear about that. I love shared spaces of mutuality where the attention rolls all around us. But I’m more than neutral about attention. I’m far more comfortable taking the lead and being seen than I am
Powerful Completion Part 5
This is the final practice in this series and what I love about it is that it’s all about freeing up that ‘grasping for what we don’t have’ thing that many of us do. You know that beast? Look outside of ourselves for what will make us whole or complete or better in some way? Forget that. Over the past few weeks, we’ve really been clearing the space to open to what’s next. We’ve taken stock (week 1), reconciled (week 2) been witnessed in that (week 3) and let go (week 4). This practice is about cultivating what qualities you
Contraction and Self-Disgust. What My Creative Genius Looks Like Inside-Out.
I was waiting for it. I’d even blocked it into my schedule. I’ve done enough ‘expansions’ to know that after stepping into a new space, creating something at my edge or launching something new, I experience an equal and opposing sense of contraction. Since launching new programs, I’ve been waiting for some massive attack of paralysis or closure. Instead it snuck up all stealth and subtle. This is apparently not something that people talk about. Although I feel like I talk about it quite a bit since I work with creatives, entrepreneurs and development enthusiasts. But I guess a lot
The World You Want With The Money You Have. On Voting With Your Dollars.
Have you ever gone shopping and gotten a little carried away like you’re on some weird high and spent a little more than you intended to and then afterward crashed and felt gross? Whether it’s buying up the sales rack you stood in line for or loading up on holiday gifts for loved ones, tumbling into excess is an easy trap. Especially this season. Even when you don’t have the money to do it. Every year, around this time, I attend a jewellery launch party at my friend’s studio and inevitably spend hundreds of dollars on her new line. I
The Gift of Your Deepest Gifts…Registration now open for Be Cause
Hey hey! Registration is now OPEN for Be Cause, my group-coaching program that starts this January. It’s like Christmas has come early! Except, instead of running around shopping malls with Bailey’s in your coffee, you can set yourself up to start 2015 with deep alignment and traction in the areas that matter most in your life and work. I mean, I think it’s a pretty good argument to say that the best gift you could give your friends and family is the fulfilment of your life’s purpose, yeah? Read all about what we’ll be doing together here. Or jump straight to registration here. Also, I made you
Alleviating Suffering Starts with You
The other night, I was snuggled up with my partner watching FED UP, a documentary about the food industry, sugar addiction, the obesity epidemic and the government’s complicit participation in it all. We had to press pause so I could have one of those snotty nosed sobs. When we were choosing what to watch, I hesitated. I kind of hate watching these documentaries. Love/Hate. They get me all fired up. Before I know it, my mind has started formulating some way to mobilize a collective around making change. It’s rare for me to be able to kick back, watch something
Reconciling The Paradox Of The Self. How a hippy-dippy road trip made me more me.
Self-expression has never been a hang-up for me. But which aspect of Self am I expressing has been a vital and lived question. One part of me seemed to leave out another and I grappled with finding a way to include all of who I am. My given name, Chela, is Sanskrit for disciple. My name has been my compass. I’m a seeker, I long for truth, for depth. I have always searched the canvas of life for meaning and for moments of awakening. I’ve also partied my ass off. I’m irreverent, have been given shit for swearing and like
From Inadequacy To Leadership. Personal And Collective Liberation As The Same Path.
I used to be a personal development junkie. I say junkie because I was after a state change and I was out to fix what was wrong with me. One course led to another program which led to another retreat or coach or book in hopes that the next thing would fill me, alter me, make me adequate. Whenever someone would give me a line about accepting myself or not having to be a particular way in order to be whole and complete it was…well, confusing. Tell me this, why would I put myself through so much self improvement shit if
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