Four ways to survive overwhelm when your dream gets daunting. I almost drowned once. I was 12. One hot summer day my dad took my sisters and me to a swimming hole in a nearby river on Vancouver Island, British Columbia where I grew up. The safe cove for swimming…

5 Lessons From a Succulent. Wading through the final gruelling stages of editing my book, I turned to happy thoughts: envisioning what the book cover would look like. I could have chosen from many images that represent concepts and metaphors in the book: a crossroads a signpost a compass pages…

Do you have a hard time describing what you do for your job, business — or as a stay-at-home-parent? “What do you do?” It’s the go-to question when someone first meets you. It’s the question you dread when you’re in-between jobs and haven’t been hired as soon as you want to be. It’s the…

How confident are you in knowing your life purpose? How intentional and effective are you at living your life purpose? Let’s start with a quiz! Which statement below best describes you? Not even sure I have one or am worth having one I’m sure I have one but I’m not…

Eighty-three percent of Canadians who changed careers say they’re happier because of it, according to a survey done by Indeed.ca. This isn’t something you take lightly! The average time the majority took considering career change was 11 months. Most people who mention they want to find a new job or…

If you are serious about getting started on your dream or stepping deeper into your calling, then knowing the kind of resistance you’re experiencing holds the keys you need. The big takeaway of this list of breakthrough opportunities: Just because your dream isn’t easy doesn’t mean it’s not meant to…

Tim Grahl describes his first novel, The Threshing as The Matrix meets The Hunger Games. For any fans of either book or movie, that would be incentive enough. …

Would you consider yourself a big dreamer or a non-dreamer? Of course, there are more nuances to people than how we dream about our future. However, how you interact with others each other’s style of ideation and implementation, as well as what they value and how they express it, can…

11 Family Members, 12 Months and an Impossible Goal Can you imagine training a family of 11 on a mission to live without grumbling for a year? That’s what the book The Grumble-Free Year: Twelve Months, Eleven Family Members and One Impossible Goal (2019) is about. Tricia Goyer, the author, inspired me before I even picked up any of her 80+ books. Anyone who has writes that many…