Month: March 2014

Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I am going to nurture my body each day. Feeling your breath going in and out is the easiest way to connect with your body. Focusing on breath makes you present, and rids your mind of obsessive thinking, as your thoughts transfer into your body. This creates peace and… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 13 – Nurturing Your Body Each Day in a BIG Way

Review of Week 12 – Going BIG with Creating Positive Self-Talk

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I changed to using positive self-talk words like: do, choose, proud, make, and when, on my to-do list, to motivate me to get tasks accomplished. Using decisive words left no doubt in my mind that I was going to accomplish tasks, helped me tackle little tasks easily, and the… Continue reading Review of Week 12 – Going BIG with Creating Positive Self-Talk

Week 12 – Optimizing Yourself – Go BIG With Creating Positive Self-Talk

Behavioral researchers describe the human brain as the most powerful computer there is. We think up to 50,000 thoughts a day, but many of them are negative, and those thoughts are the basis of our self-talk dialogue that we all have throughout the day. Old programming from our past gets stored in our subconscious mind,… Continue reading Week 12 – Optimizing Yourself – Go BIG With Creating Positive Self-Talk

Review of Week 11 – Go BIG with Eating 6 Small Meals a Day

For this week’s optimizing yourself exercise, I ate six small regularly scheduled meals a day instead of three big meals. For the first four days, it felt like an inconvenience to stop and prepare so many small meals when I didn’t feel hungry, but as I continued to follow the schedule, by the fifth day,… Continue reading Review of Week 11 – Go BIG with Eating 6 Small Meals a Day

Life is Short, Buy The Shoes

It’s the first day of spring, and my Mom beckons me to visit her in ‘The Gardens’ where she peacefully rests. I enter the driveway under the shade of the huge cedar tree, until the warming spring sun meets me, and I circle around beside the lake, and pass by the Chinese pagoda on the… Continue reading Life is Short, Buy The Shoes

Tom Jackson’s Love of Music and People

Canadians Changing The World: Over the next few months, I will continue to take my blog out to meet people in my community who are taking action to change the world. Like a snail pulling myself off my rock, I am getting out and interacting with the people in the community to get to know… Continue reading Tom Jackson’s Love of Music and People

52 Weeks To Optimizing Yourself – Week 11 – Bo BIG With Eating Small Meals Frequently

I met a friend this week at a coffee shop and she looked really good, and said she changed to eating six small meals throughout the day, instead of three large meals. She said by distributing her food evenly throughout the day, and not allowing herself to get hungry, she doesn’t end up overeating. I… Continue reading 52 Weeks To Optimizing Yourself – Week 11 – Bo BIG With Eating Small Meals Frequently

Review of Week 10 – Go Big Recording Family History

This week I took the family history information my brother gave me and started connecting the puzzle pieces together, only to discover it was one of those 5,000 piece puzzles! But simply writing down the stories gave me enormous insight to the contributions, success and struggles of my ancestors, and getting to know them better… Continue reading Review of Week 10 – Go Big Recording Family History

Battle of The Spoons – Happy St. Paddy’s Day Newfoundland!

I imagine spoon playing is becoming a lost art, but apparently it is alive and well in Newfoundland! My Irish Mom played the spoons for us. The Irish are great improvisers. When my mom’s family and friends would go to the cottage in Donegal, Ireland, they would make their own band. They used washboards and… Continue reading Battle of The Spoons – Happy St. Paddy’s Day Newfoundland!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Niagara Falls on both the Canadian and American sides will be flooded in green lights for Tourism Irelands’ “Saint Patrick’s Day Global Greening Campaign” this year. It is a way to say, ‘One Hundred Thousand Welcomes’, or C’ead Mile Failte, to all the Irish who have emigrated to Canada and the United States over the… Continue reading Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Philanthropy For Lunch

The winners of Brett Wilson’s Vancouver Lunch Contest, do not need introductions to Brett, all ten of us recognize him instantly from The Dragon’s Den tv show, as he arrives at The Cibo Trattoria on Feb 28, 2014, wearing an animated Robert Graham designer shirt, accompanied by his lovely daughter. He sits at the head… Continue reading Philanthropy For Lunch