by Tim Parkins | Mar 24, 2024
Hey Reader! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Welcome to spring! While it may officially be spring, here in Ottawa, it isn’t feeling like it. Brrr. 🥶 On the plus side, with the shift to Daylight Savings Time, it now feels like there’s a ‘bonus’ hour in the day, with it staying light out much later. I’ve met a lot of people whose identity is so wrapped up in work, it’s like work is the entire reason for them to get out of bed in the morning. That’s dangerous. Let’s briefly explore why that is and how you might change…
by Tim Parkins | Mar 17, 2024
Hey Reader! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 What a week! It’s been rock and roll for me, but I’m feeling great. Hope that you’re doing well. Let’s jump right in!! Kiss Complexity Goodbye: How to Assure Success Let me start off by saying something that may be controversial – success is simple. That goes completely against the story that most of us tell ourselves, most of the time. As silly as it seems, we want to believe that it’s complicated. Because if it was simple, we would already be successful, right? Success is…
by Tim Parkins | Mar 10, 2024
Hello Reader! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 What a week. It was a bit of a rough one for me, if I’m honest. The good news is that I demonstrated to myself that I’m resilient and I’ve got plans in place to protect myself when things go off track. Because they will go off the rails sometimes, that’s just a fact of life. Being able to respond to life’s challenges is a critical skill, and that’s what we’re going to explore this week. Onwards! Tim ⚡️Navigating Emotional Storms: How To Design An Emotional Safety Net…
by Tim Parkins | Mar 3, 2024
Hey Reader! 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻 Welcome to March! I can’t believe that two months of 2024 have already zoomed by. It’s a stark reminder that our time is finite, so we should spend it doing things that we find meaningful. That’s not to say that everything should be fun and games; that would be a recipe for disaster. You need to have some meaning in your life, and this meaning isn’t something you’re going to “discover” by sitting around pondering your place in the universe. The need for meaning – and how…
by Tim Parkins | Feb 25, 2024
Hey Reader!!! 👋🏻 Hope that you’ve enjoyed your weekend and are looking forward to the upcoming week. While the week ahead will almost certainly include a challenge or two, it will also certainly include some positivity and progress. Focus your attention on the progress and let go of the other stuff. Had an interesting call this week where someone flipped the table on me; instead of me asking the confronting questions, they were peppering me with questions about my experiences as a leader in a…
