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March 7th, 2024

Celebrate Women’s Achievements

We Rise
By Amanda Gorman

Today, everyone’s eyes
Are on us as we rise.
Today is the day women
Are paving the way,
Speaking our truth to power.
In this hour, it is our duty
to find the brave beauty
In rooting for other women
So they too know we are not victims,
We are victors, the greatest predictors
of progress. We press for change,
A new dawn drawn into the open
By women whose silence is broken.
We push on and act on
Our responsibility to bring visibility
To the most vulnerable:
To bring freedom to those who didn’t have a choice,
To bring volume to those who are using their voice.
We clear a woman’s way,
We don’t fear the day
She steps into the light
Because we are with her
Every step of the fight.
There’s a lot at stake, but making
A difference always takes great courage.
So we encourage women who dare to stare
Fear square in its face,
Women who’ve always shown
That when one woman stands up
She is never alone.
We know that when she steps up to right a wrong,
She will fight to bring others along
To the network, into the conversation,
Working together to change communities
And nations for generations, our world
Made all the stronger the longer
Women are able to sit at the table.
It is her strength, her story, and her spirit
Which inspires other vital voices
to speak up when they hear it.
So let it be said that light will be shed
When our world is led by leaders ahead
of the headlines, the voices
Who are first on the frontline,
These women who stand up,
knowing the wind
Not by where it is, but where it is blowing,
Leading worlds not by how society is
But where change is going.
We all leap forward when one woman tries,
When she defies with her rallying cries.
Here lies, but does not rest, the best
Of tested women who call us all to rise,
Speaking the truth in this finest hour:
That to their own power,
every single woman is entitled.
But it’s how they empower others
That makes women’s voices so vital.

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A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more meaningful and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Need some help getting there? Perhaps I could be of assistance.

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February 29th, 2024

Be Hopeful

Hope seems to be in short supply these days…

Many feel that the future and their dreams just aren’t doable in these crazy times.

Don’t listen to the doubters and naysayers.

Always remember. Whatever your dream, in order to ‘have,’ you must first ‘do’ and in order to ‘do,’ you must ‘be.’

Just be the best you can. That will be enough.

You owe it to yourself.

Be hopeful.

Stay interesting. Stay interested. Stay relevant.

I look forward to seeing you again soon. As always, thank you for reading me.

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The true mystery of the world is the known, not the unknown. Oscar Wilde.

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more meaningful and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Need some help getting there? Perhaps I could be of assistance.

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.

 

 

February 23rd, 2024

Along Life’s Path

Life can only be understood backwards but it must lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard.

As much as we may wish, there are no short cuts in life.

To live fully is to go with the flow, always looking forward.

Willing to live in the present, to accept and adapt to constant change.

Stay interesting. Stay interested. Stay relevant.

I look forward to seeing you here again soon.

As always, thank you for reading me

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The true mystery of the world is the known, not the unknown. Oscar Wilde.

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more meaningful and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Need some help getting there? Perhaps I could be of assistance.

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.

 

 

February 16th, 2024

First, putting everything in order…

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to  put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must set our hearts right. Confucius.

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Hmm… something to ponder as we head into a period of so many staggering challenges , on so many different  fronts.

I hope we’re up to it.

Fingers crossed.

Stay interesting. Stay interested. Stay relevant.

I look forward to seeing you here again soon.

As always, thank you for reading me

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The true mystery of the world is the known, not the unknown. Oscar Wilde.

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more meaningful and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Need some help getting there? Perhaps I could be of assistance.

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.

 

February 9th, 2024

Remember What You Are All About

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. Eleanor Roosevelt.

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As society continues to change and move forward again, we are each being challenged to move beyond outdated, limiting beliefs and behaviours made irrelevant and to evolve into and fashion new, fresher versions of ourselves.

Every day is a gift. And every day counts.

The key is to make the best use of each one.

Remembering that it’s not only the good work you do and what you say that counts, it’s who you are that matters and what you are all about.

Stay interested. Stay interesting. Stay relevant.

And, as always, thank you  for reading me

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The true mystery of the world is the known, not the unknown. Oscar Wilde.

A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more meaningful and engaging? Or closer to the point, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Need some help getting there? Perhaps I could be of assistance.

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.

 

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