Insight-Clarity-Growth Blog- Don’t Take it Personally April 30, 2017How much time have you wasted worrying about why someone was seemingly curt or rude to you? Ruminating about what you might have said or done that offended them? If you are like me, probably too much! I recently ran … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Authentic Communication April 1, 2017I’ve always considered myself to be a pretty good communicator. I’m a good listener and usually fairly competent at getting my point across. However, after listening to an online talk by the late Dr. Marshall Rosenberg on communication, I realized … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Are You Holding Back? February 7, 2017My daughter has been applying for summer camp counsellor jobs. She’s been a camp counsellor the last three summers, in addition to being a lifeguard and swim instructor during the school year. Pretty darn qualified! So why did she phone me … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Fearlessness December 31, 2016Like most people, I have experienced profound, life-threatening fear over the years – meeting a grizzly bear on a walking trail at Lake Louise, spinning out on ice on Highway 401, a bomb threat on a commercial airplane. So I … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- The Blame Game November 30, 2016My daughter recently caused an unfortunate incident at her work place. She is a lifeguard at a pool and without thinking she packed her glass water bottle when she went to work. The bottle fell off the guard chair and … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- If You Want to Be Happy … October 31, 2016Last month I was driving on a lovely stretch of road surrounded by farm fields, trees, sunshine, and blue sky. There was very little traffic and I wasn’t in a hurry. I couldn’t help but feel great. I was … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Experience Your Life September 9, 2016We recently moved our 18 year old, adult, daughter into university in Toronto. She is only 90 kilometers away but everything has changed. We are no longer a cohesive three person unit. We are now two separate entities. We have … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Suffering is Optional July 31, 2016“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” I really didn’t get it the first time I heard that quote. I equated the two – pain and suffering. How can you have pain without suffering? Pain hurts and hurting is suffering. How … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- 90 Seconds June 30, 2016How long do you think it takes to get over an emotion? Hours, days, years? If you had asked me before I read My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor, I probably would have … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Eye on the Ball June 1, 2016My daughter and I have been taking group tennis lessons. It wasn’t until lesson 6 of 8 that I began to enjoy them. Lesson 6 was a private lesson because my classmates were absent that evening. I only had me … Continue reading →Lisa Ivaldi
- Don’t Take it Personally April 30, 2017
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Fear of Life
What’s the worst that could happen? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to ask ourselves when we’re afraid to make the speech, accept the job offer, or make the dreaded cold call? Sometimes it helps and we realize the worst is … Continue reading
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