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Category Archives: Life Cycles

Embracing the Change

15 Tuesday Sep 2015

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embrace changeIf you live far enough north or south, you can feel the change that happens at this time of the year. In fact, you probably sensed a faint stirring around you even as the calendar turned to August. The air begins to smell and feel different. The sun shifts on the horizon. And if you live in a temperate zone as I do, you might wake one morning to find yourself bundled from head to toe making hot cereal with raisins for breakfast, and wondering when did you actually stop mourning for summer gone by? and when did you begin to look forward to all that the fall season has to offer?

When, exactly, did that mental shift towards acceptance happen?

Fall time settles us down but it also invigorates and revitalizes our senses. I’m not just thinking about how the change in weather brings out warm sweaters and hearty soups. Autumn also brings a new season of learning, renewed energy with work, and perhaps a sense of urgency to close in on your goals for the year.

We experience change around us every day and throughout our lives. It takes many shapes and many directions. At times, we fear it, resist it and eventually perhaps resign ourselves to it. But there are those magical moments when we feel it, yearn for it, and embrace it.

Sometimes we make change happen and sometimes it happens to us. But when we embrace that change, we take enormous strides toward personal growth and development.

When I accept that September has arrived — or perhaps more accurately that I have arrived at September – it becomes one of my favourite times of the year. I see potential and feel energized again.

What about you? What’s your relationship with Change these days?

The Caregiver

10 Wednesday Dec 2014

Posted by kimvwalker in Life Cycles

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CaregiverCaregiver has many names…

Mother, daughter, grandpa, volunteer, service provider, spouse, fur child, friend…

And many jobs…

Guiding, nursing, sharing, tending, advocating, repairing, leading, loving…

On many levels…

Individual, family, neighbour, community and beyond…

professional and amateur alike

Caregiver does not discriminate and does not waiver. Once a caregiver, always a caregiver.

Whenever or wherever called upon to the best of her ability
… the body may weaken but the heart is strong.

Six Rules to Live By … on shifting into gear and managing change

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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Fernwood spokesI’ve been going through an old journal lately and discovering that I have given myself some great advice and inspiration over the years.

In October 2000, I was on the cusp of a big change in my work life – leaving a full-time job to resurrect my consulting services. In my journal entry I meandered through a lot of thoughts on Risk, Control of Destiny, The Vision, and Getting There.

In the end, the advice I gave myself was six rules to live by.  They helped a lot toward the closing of one chapter and moving on:

  1. Get things done – somehow find the energy; focus and eliminate noise
  2. Be proactive – gain some control to do what you think is right
  3. Demonstrate leadership – do the right things; well founded & defensible
  4. Be expressive and creative – don’t be a wallflower, withering and whimpering
  5. Focus on accomplishing results – rather than managing time
  6. Feed your soul
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