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ISTAR: Changing lives through communication

Last Friday I had the privilege of being invited to a luncheon for one of the charities that our company supports through our affiliation with REALTORS®

Emotion: The key to inspiring action

If you want to inspire action, you’ve got to evoke emotion.  This is an important thing to consider when we look to inspire others to action.

Words to Live By: “Responsive”

Quite some time ago I wrote an article entitled "Words to Live By" where I talked about looking at the words with which you think people use to describe you

Happy New Day!!

It is New Years day and as I sit back and reflect on the past year and watch others do the same, I can’t help but think that there has got to be a better way

Brain Food: What do you eat?

2013 was a year in which I really focused on my physical fitness and it certainly paid dividends.  I am in better physical shape then I have ever been in

Goal Setting to Goal Achieving: The ‘not so secret’ ingredients

Inevitably, this time of year, we start reflecting on what we accomplished last year and look forward to what we might like to accomplish in the next.

All I want for Christmas…

Well, it’s that time of year again.  The requests from the family to get your Christmas lists in has begun.  This year all I want for Christmas is:

Connection to Others

Thirteen years ago

Thirteen years ago today my life changed forever.  While you often hear that having kids will change your life, I am not sure you ever really understand

Connection to Self

What was hard becomes easy

So here we are less than two weeks away from the most challenging physical thing I have ever done in my life.  In 12 days I will swim 3.8km, bike 180km

Connection to Self

My Half Ironman Experience

So here it is, 32 weeks of training all comes down to one day.  On Sunday July 7, 2013 I raced the Great White North Half Ironman Triathlon and I have to

Connection to Self

Race day: I fought the Suck, and the Suck won!

So today I did my first sprint triathlon.  It was the 2013 Edmonton ITU Triathlon World Cup  and man was it well run.  This was a big

Connection to Others

Thank You: Amy Holden

Recently I came across a blog titled 365 days of "Thank You".  The author has made a point of writing a blog post daily of thanking someone in his life