Performance Improves When You Take The Pressure Off Yourself
I think the tiredness is a result of frustration. In one of my previous articles I wrote about mindful eating and how when you commit to chewing every bite into a paste, you leave your digestion system...
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My Pretend Identity is Pretty Awesome
As a self-help editor, I read a lot of self-help articles and I recently came across a quote that had a bit of an impact on me.: “The Universe is an ever renewing, incredibly infinite source of...
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Amy Cuddy and Power Posing: Can You Actually “Fake It Til You Make It?”
First, her thesis: Our nonverbal behaviour not only governs how other people think and feel about us, but also governs how we think and feel about ourselves. By changing our nonverbal behaviour, we...
View ArticleMaking a Promise to Myself for 2014
One of the most productive things that I’ve done as 2013 draws to a close, is to review all of my accomplishments and prepare for the coming year. And yet, even as I do this, I wonder at those things...
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What Does it Mean to Be Intelligent?
What do Standardized Test Scores tell us? Are school’s today hindering or helping kids? What do we actually know about intelligence? When I used to consider the word “genius,” I’d immediately conjure...
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How to Be Beautiful When Even Marilyn Monroe Wasn’t a “10″
Marilyn Monroe, 1953 Even Marilyn Monroe “Is Not Good Looking.” Near the end of Marilyn Monroe’s life, cinematographer Leon Shamroy, was quoted as saying to reporter Ezra Goodman:“When you analyze...
View ArticlePhone Call Phobia
There’s something about making important phone calls that scares me. When I know that my voice is the only thing that will get me what I want, my stomach starts to turn inside of me. Breathing...
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I Had a 10 Minute Date with a Playgirl Model, and I’m Proud of It!
This girl right here had a date with a playgirl model and acrobat for cirque de soleil! Okay, fine… maybe I didn’t know it was a date. Okay, maybe he wouldn’t have called it a date either. I thought it...
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Reflections on Cirque du Soleil. Beware: “Be Small and You Will Fall”
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian I went to see Cirque du Soleil (Totem) last week and left with my mind going a little bit crazy with thoughts about fear and my tendency to hold back who I...
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Identifying the Mindset Shifts, a New Job, and A Whole Lot of Adventure
I had this thought recently: “I wish I did more travelling.” I was feeling stagnant and stuck in a routine, and then all of a sudden I had three trips scheduled in just a little over a month. Suddenly,...
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Do I believe I can win? I guess that’s the question…
I saw this quote on Instagram a couple of days ago. I ‘liked’ it, and then proceeded to think about it pretty much nonstop. “Today is the future I created yesterday” – Louise Hay Right now everything...
View ArticleWhat exactly is beauty? And what does it have to do with me?
Where in the world do I feel the most vulnerable? Standing in front of the mirror at the gym, doing my makeup and hair in front of other women. Okay, there are other places that make me feel equally if...
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The evolution of my core-desired feelings, and two new words for 2016.
I want to write about passion. What is it? Where, inside of us, does it live? Is it necessary? I write these questions because I need to give myself a running start. Asking questions, for me, is the...
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In June I started working on my first short story in 5 years. I REALLY wanted...
I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I started learning how to read English when I was six (I was brought up French, so had a late start), and by the time I was seven I felt like I knew something about...
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I’ve carried my laptop like a heart from cafe to cafe – Explorations into...
I had a lot of plans for this first day of 2016. I didn’t do any of them. I’d planned to wake up early, set some intentions with some girlfriends, jump in the ocean, and then dance on the beach. It...
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An evening at the Kaya Mayla Bistro
Last Wednesday, I went to Kaya Mayla Bistro with YVR Foodies. Before delving in to my experience at the restaurant, I’d like to tell you about YVRFoodies. They are a chapter of YVRbloggers, who I first...
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‘On Falling… Some Safety Considerations’ — a Spoken Word LOVE Poem
I wrote a poem about love, and I’d like to share it with you. After writing ‘Between the Lines‘, I was fairly nervous to write another poem. That first one had happened so effortlessly. The entire...
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How to: BE PERFECT as a Human. A Guide For Self-Help Junkies.
As a proud perfectionist, I started exploring the ‘self help’ genre about four years ago. I gravitated towards this genre because I saw it as a way – according to the testimonials a sure fire way – to...
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“There’s magic in the wordless” – my conversation about creativity with...
“If you’re capable of seeing it with your mind, you’re capable of having it in your life. But I don’t believe that things will come to us until we’re ready to see them.” I’m very excited to be sharing...
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The Play Date – the Concept and the Why
Around this time last year, I started dreaming up the concept for the play date. I wanted to create a space where creatives could come together to approach their imagination with curiosity. What if...
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