Fill up your cup

You can’t pour from an empty cup. Do you intentionally fill up your cup? With careers, businesses, and families, we’re high-performing achievers that always try to give our best to everything – and this takes a lot out of us! Many of us understand that we need to fill our cup, but we don’t. SomeContinue reading “Fill up your cup”

5 Signs You Are Being Used

In an ideal world, a relationship has a lot of give and take. But relationships are rarely ideal — and being used in a friendship or relationship is way more common than we’d like it to be. It normally starts out simply enough, with someone who seems really sensitive and interesting and reflective and ‘notContinue reading “5 Signs You Are Being Used”

10 Toxic People to Avoid ALWAYS

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing others over the edge. As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never beContinue reading “10 Toxic People to Avoid ALWAYS”

15 Things That Are Probably Weighing You Down

Just about everybody has things in their lives that weigh them down, preventing them from soaring, loving themselves and life the way it was meant to be loved. The reason many birds can fly is that they are incredibly light. You won’t be getting a set of hollow bones anytime soon, but taking a loadContinue reading “15 Things That Are Probably Weighing You Down”

Think You’re a Wise Person?

The cliché “another year older, another year wiser” implies that the only way to attain the secret sauce of life is to live another year… and then another, and then another. Yes, it’s comforting to consider that logging more time here on planet Earth will naturally make you a wise person! According to Merriam-Webster, aContinue reading “Think You’re a Wise Person?”

End of Year Reflections

Today is the last day of the year! The end of the year is a time of excitement and reflection. We’re eager to start a new chapter and make a fresh start. Some of us are also reflecting on the past 12 months and reflecting on what went well and what didn’t. We’re contemplating whatContinue reading “End of Year Reflections”

Let Go Of What No Longer Serves You

In life, we often hold on to things that aren’t helping us elevate to the next level. We hold on to relationships, friendships, jobs and even bad habits that no longer serve us. Why do we do this? Because, for the most part, people fear the unknown. We tend to get scared at the ideaContinue reading “Let Go Of What No Longer Serves You”

Love Yourself

One of the most important relationships in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Many of us invest so much time and energy in our relationships with others while completely disregarding our own relationship with ourselves, even though it’s actually the most important one. At some point you will realize how much youContinue reading “Love Yourself”

Saying “No” to Create the Space to Say “Yes”

When you ask someone how they are, 95% of the time they will answer with some version of “busy”, “good, but busy” or even, sometimes, “crazy busy”. Busy has become a badge of honour, a signifier of success – a humble brag that sometimes implies we are important and in demand. But if you reallyContinue reading “Saying “No” to Create the Space to Say “Yes””

Are you good at accepting both compliments and criticism?

If I had to ask if you are good at accepting criticism, what would your answer be? Most of us would answer no. Let’s face it, it’s human nature to not love criticism, even when it comes in the constructive variety. Fewer of us are good at accepting compliment as well because as much as we mightContinue reading “Are you good at accepting both compliments and criticism?”