Life Lessons from the Grouse Grind

July 13, 2011

As some of you know, I’ve set a personal goal to hike the Grind a minimum of once per week – every week – throughout the 2011 hiking season.  My focus is on consistency first and performance second.  As I’m hiking week after week, I’m starting to ponder some pretty valuable lessons while I’m burning [...]

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Exceptional Women’s Network

June 27, 2011

Pleased to be presenting at tomorrow evening’s Exceptional Women’s Network meeting.  Here’s all the details: Sunshine Coast has NEW woman’s group to help women succeed in business and in life Gibsons BC – Dara Wyton of Dara Wyton Design is calling out to talented, driven, motivated women on the Sunshine Coast to join her for [...]

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What Makes Winners, Winners?

May 21, 2011

How do superstars become ‘super’ anyway?  Is it luck?  I believe that it is preparation meeting opportunity.  Let’s be honest, we all want to be winners.  We all want to achieve our goals and live the lives of our dreams.  So why is it that some of us do but others never get there?  What’s [...]

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Finding Balance

May 18, 2011

Finding balance in a busy life is no easy feat. “Finding balance” sounds like this fluffy, intangible euphoric place with no road map to get there. Speaking from personal experience, I find balance and the most fulfillment in life when ‘all the bases’ are covered. I get frustrated and resentful when one area of my [...]

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Here We GROW, Again!

May 17, 2011

Returning to Personal Fitness Training – Thoughts and Reflections… It’s been two years since I segwayed from CSJ Active Wellness after surviving a tough but hugely rewarding 5-year lease and the life experience owning my very own studio in a brand new community. Ben and I moved to Gibsons in the summer of 2004 and [...]

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Back To My Roots

May 14, 2011

Back To My Roots From hair colour to values, my 40’s are all about returning to my roots. It’s funny how your teens and twenties and sometimes into your thirties are constantly about finding ways to improve yourself with a new hair colour, tinted contacts, tanning, even surgical enhancements to your face and other body [...]

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