by Brenda MacIntyre | Jul 6, 2022 | Leadership
You ever been on the road with a driver who won’t admit they’re feeling lost? They keep driving and driving. The gas meter looks a little low but going to the gas station to ask for directions is NOT about to happen, is it? They’re not about to listen to anyone else...
by Brenda MacIntyre | May 10, 2022 | Leadership
Prioritize yourself. I know. It sounds great but how? Here’s what I mean. Many years ago, I heard an Indigenous elder tell a group of us to take care of ourselves first. It was an eye-opener. I heard that teaching over and over again by many elders, including Dan and...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Jan 9, 2019 | Leadership
Resolutions. To do or not to do? What to do instead? New Year’s Resolutions rarely work, because they are based on peer pressure, which is based our innate instinct to fit in and belong. There’s a healthy dose of FOMO in there too. Fear of missing out on what everyone...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Dec 5, 2017 | Leadership
The end of the year can be a little stressful. The holidays can bring up all kinds of emotion. Trying to plan your next year can create even more stress. If your year has been a little (or a lot) rough, you can also end up feeling like a failure or just wishing for...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Aug 2, 2017 | Leadership
Ever get stuck between choices? Indecision does not feel good. Don’t you wish you had a decision-making map to follow to get the right answer? Sometimes decision-making sucks but the answers are obvious, right there in front of us. For example, when I wrote this...
by Brenda MacIntyre | Apr 7, 2015 | Leadership
Trigger Warning: Suicide, parent loss Most of us… our parents weren’t perfect. They gave us the teachings they knew, verbally and by example, whether those teachings were proven to be useful or not. You know what? Sometimes we receive unexpected, unwanted traumatic...
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