We’ve all heard this expression in our careers; whether it’s something as direct as someone literally saying it or it being an unsaid/unwritten rule of the culture. Often it went beyond our careers and it was told to us by our parents, our coaches, our teachers and society from when we were children. We’re told […]
How we relate to our emotions falls on a spectrum. Some of us get swept up by our emotions and speak impulsively. We may lash out at people. Some of us swing to the other extreme where we suppress our emotions. We think that emotions create drama and complicate things so we try to avoid […]
I wanted to take a short couple of minutes to continue a discussion we started on the Inside the Athletic Mind podcast that has stuck with me throughout this past week. As you may already know, the athletic world has experienced some incredible tragedies over the past month with the loss of 3 student-athletes […]
Change is hard. Harvard Business Review reports that 70% of change initiatives don’t work. Major consulting firms are experiencing only a 30% success rate with their digital transformation initiatives. So why is change so difficult to adopt, and what can we, as leaders and individual contributors, do about it? “I believe […]
When it comes to coping with difficult situations, our brain’s primary job is to keep us safe. When these difficulties are too great, the brain tends to compartmentalize our emotions by putting up a protective self to guard against the reality of the situation until we can effectively cope and heal. Think of it like […]
For a long time I used the analogy of going from “a big fish in a small pond” to “a small fish in a big pond” to describe my transition from high school to university. I went from a small town in rural Ontario to Princeton University, and found the transition really challenging. Years […]
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