Today’s economy is global, interconnected and interdependent.

It has created a need for a business model that demands we work in a new space – not reliant only on our linear, left brain side nor with an over-emphasis on the creative right brain side, but in using both. That means listening to our intuition but then taking that information and filtering it through our minds.

That’s where you are at your best – following your hunches, using your smarts and your experience to bring your work to successful fruition.

To say nothing of keeping a handle on all the craziness that is going on.

It’s a juggling act, but here are three tips to help you on your path:

1. Have the courage to think outside the proverbial box. That’s where the status quo isn’t.
2. Build on a bigger future even though you can’t always see it.
3. Play the game of life with joy.

When you approach life as an adventure and a blessing you open up your mind to creative options.

Besides, where is it written that you can’t enjoy what you’re doing?

It’s all about continuous learning and personal growth.

Wonderful things can happen, life sparkles when you are open to new possibilities, working in the space between the two magic spheres

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Stay strong. Stay young and make a difference.

As always, thank you for reading me.

I hope to see you here again soon

A FEW THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS:

Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years?

Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategic exploring, to refresh your spirit and meet the many challenges of today’s new world? To help you move on to the next phase of your life?

You’re at the right place. If you are really ready, read my approach to coaching. For A COMPLIMENTARY, CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION text/call me at 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on LinkedIn.

NOTE: Following my own advice, I am going to take some time off to catch up on my reading, sharpen my senses and recharge my batteries. I’ll see you back here in September. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

Reason enlivens the mind; the ineffable enlivens the Heart. Martin Buber.

Recently I came across a poem that I thought was especially meaningful in today’s daunting world.

It’s all about resilience and courage.

Change is the new coinage.

The thing is this: How to deal with all the pressure and the craziness.

The challenge for each of us is how best to adapt to the new realities and fit into the future that’s coming up fast.

Here’s the poem.

A Center

You must hold your quiet centre, where you do what only you can do.

If others call you a maniac or a fool, just let them wag their tongues.

If some praise your perseverance, don’t feel too happy about it – only solitude is a lasting friend.

You must hold your distant centre.

Don’t move even if earth and heaven quake.

If others think you are insignificant, that’s because you haven’t held on long enough.

As long as you stay put year after year, eventually you will find a world beginning to revolve around you.

Written by Ha Jin. A Chinese-American poet and novelist.

Hmmm….

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Stay strong. Stay young and make a difference.

As always, thank you for reading me.

I hope to see you here again soon

A FEW THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS:

Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years?

Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategic exploring, to refresh your spirit and meet the many challenges of today’s new world? To help you move on to the next phase of your life?

You’re at the right place. If you are really ready, read my approach to coaching. For A COMPLIMENTARY, CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION text/call me at 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on LinkedIn.

NOTE: Following my own advice, I am going to take some time off to catch up on my reading, sharpen my senses and recharge my batteries. I’ll see you back here in September. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

As our lives get busier and crazier, there never has been a more important time than now to ‘take time out’ and spend some time in nature.

You don’t have to go far to find it.

Think parks. Parks have a special place in large urban centres They are an oasis of calm; a place of tranquility, a spot where you can connect with nature in the middle of the concrete canyons and ribbons of unending vehicles.

Parks attract people of all ages and from all walks of life but regardless of who they are, they all have one thing in common. They value quietude.

Watch them… lovers slowly strolling, arm in arm, along the paths; old men sitting on benches, soaking up the life-giving warmth of the sun; young parents proudly pushing stollers. Then there are others, singlely or in pairs, heads buried in a book or in their digital devices.

Occasionally someone glides by on a bike. Even the animals get into the act: dogs, free of their leashes, unsuccessfully chase squirrels. Birds flutter around, pecking for food in the grass.

If even for short periods at a time, connecting with nature, in any of its forms, is important to your health and well being. It helps to release stress, sooth your spirits and sharpen your senses

Stay curious. Stay strong. Stay relevant.

I hope to see you here again soon.

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A FEW THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS:

Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years?

Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategic exploring, to refresh your spirit and meet the many challenges of today’s new world? To help you move on to the next phase of your life?

You’re at the right place. If you are really ready, read my approach to coaching. For A COMPLIMENTARY, CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION text/call me at 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on LinkedIn.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to it’s old dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

We hear and read daily about how the world is changing but, in reality, it is we who are changing. Change is not new. Down through the millennia, it has always been with us.

Change doesn’t come from without or from what’s in the drinking water; it comes from within when a brave soul is willing to challenge the status quo, or sees a new idea or application no one saw before, or who can’t suffer one more indignation in silence any longer.

Ever curious, they never stop looking for innovative ways to grow and improve their lives and circumstances and those of others. Pessimism, irony and negativity have no place in their world view.

Life is divided into three terms, wrote the poet William Wordsworth, that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Life is complicated. Deciding to start down a new road isn’t easy. One of hardest things in life is to know is which new bridge to cross and which to burn down behind you. In the final analysis, you are on your own.

Expanding your horizon, living life on your own terms, is all about refreshing your spirit.

Not surprisingly, the moment you do that, you immediately start growing again.

We have entered a new era in our society. It isn’t for the doubters and naysayers. It’s for the adventurous, fresh thinkers and big hearts.

This is not for everyone, but if you find this resonating, I challenge you to dare to dream again, to push yourself to do more, experience more, and tap once again into your greatness. You already have all the tools you need.

Just go out and do it.

Stay curious. Stay strong. Stay relevant.

I hope to see you here again soon.

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A FEW THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS:

Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years?

Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategic exploring, to refresh your spirit and meet the many challenges of today’s new world? To help you move on to the next phase of your life?

You’re at the right place. If you are really ready, read my approach to coaching. For A COMPLIMENTARY, CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION text/call me at 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on LinkedIn.

When there’s no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward. Paulo Coelho.

In our interconnected, social-media global universe in which we all find ourselves, finding your way forward is truly a challenge.

Running with the crowd won’t cut it anymore.

Sometimes it’s better to cut back the time spent on our digital devices, stop studying other peoples methods and ideas, looking for the right direction.

Better to dig deeper and find your own story.

It’s the only way.

Stay curious. Stay interested. Stay interesting.  

I hope to see you back here soon. As always, thank you for reading me.

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A FEW THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS:

Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years?

Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategic exploring, to refresh your spirit and meet the many challenges of today’s new world? To help you move on to the next phase of your life?

You’re at the right place. If you are really ready, read my approach to coaching. For A COMPLIMENTARY, CONFIDENTIAL CONVERSATION text/call me at 416.450.8867 or email drew@drewsimmie.com. Follow me on LinkedIn.