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The Serious Matter of Play

Kate Jones — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:20:26 +0100

Last weekend two of my granddaughters and I walked over to the local playground. We held hands and slid down the three side-by-side slides -- screaming and giggling. Total abandonment. Just plain fun!

Today the strange title above caught my attention: The S...

Be the Change You Want to See in the World (Ghandi)

Kate Jones — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:27:42 +0100

Have you ever looked a challenge in the face and signed up for it anyway? Maybe a 5k run, or a 50 k run. A project at work. Maybe a diet. Maybe....well you get the point.

I signed up for the “Living Your Moksha Challenge” last ...

An April Fool's Day Remembered

Kate Jones — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:22:26 +0100

When my kids were in elementary school they loved April Fools Day. One year they called Grandma and told her all about the new puppy we had just bought the night before. They muffled their giggles as they answered Grandma’s questions about the breed, the colour, and of course, the name. Finally they could not contain their laughter any longer and yelled “April Fools Grandma!”. There was no puppy...

March Madness Consciousness Cleanse Part III

Kate Jones — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:00:16 +0100

Last day of March. Last week of March Madness!

Have you let go of some of your grudges and/or resentments? (part i: the past)

Kate Jones — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:45:15 +0100

When is the last time you coloured?

Perhaps not since you were a child?

A ...

March Madness for the Person with Amazing Focus & Perfectionist Tendencies

Kate Jones — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:02:00 +0100

Ever watched kids rock climbing? I was invited to watch a six year old rock climb at a local YMCA on a busy Friday night. With a great deal of focus she easily made her way up the first wall. I took pictures and applauded her.

Then she climbed an easi...

March Madness Consciousness Cleanse Part II

Kate Jones — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:09:21 +0100

Hopefully you have written and released your list of past grudges or resentments this past week so you can move on to the present.

This week well known author Debbie Ford suggests that you take a long look at your present life. Ask yourself, &ldq...

March Madness: Celebrate with Others

Kate Jones — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:01:28 +0100

Top of the Morning To You!

Today is St Patrick’s Day, a celebratory day for the Irish in North America, and so many others are joining in this celebration.

If you are this type of personality, or you know someone who is cautious, read on to discover how you can shake things up a bit in March Madness.

While on vacation we decided to go horseback riding. I was a little nervous and told the guide this. He immedia...

March Madness: Consciousness Cleanse

Kate Jones — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:19:37 +0100

Part of March madness for many physically healthy types revolves around a body cleanse, so I liked the notion of a “consciousness cleanse”, as ascribed by well known author, Debbie Ford.

In keeping with my notion of doing something a...

"March Madness" for free-spirited personality types

Kate Jones — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:25:38 +0100

If you are a fun-loving, freedom-loving person who believes variety is “the spice of life” then this blog is for you. Or, if you know someone who loves to be free to be and do what they want, while having fun and changing it up a lot, then this is also for you!

March weather in my neck of the woods is full of surprises. Winds blow so hard one moment that you cannot bundle up against the cold. And on the same day the sun comes out and you want to wear shorts and go for a stroll outside. It’s March madness!

Sp...

Building Bridges

Kate Jones — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:22:57 +0100

Every time I walk beside a table in my home the fragrance of three dozen yellow roses wraps itself around me. I stop. I bend over. I breathe in deeply. And I slowly exhale. I want to remember this fragrance and the beauty of...

I Beat The February Blahs

Kate Jones — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:59:35 +0100

Turns out this February was the best one ever, well that I can remember anyway. Something I learned from this little experiment of blogging nearly every day in February about beating the blahs was that by setting this goal for myself publicly encouraged me to work harder to attain it.

For those following me on twitter you know that I flew to Calgary yesterday, landing here on a beautiful, sunny, cold day. Today it is -24C. Brrr.

The reason I flew here in the middle of winter, which many of my friends and colleagues questioned, is I’m following a dream.

Ten years ago when I discussed the idea of training soft skills with one of my Ryerson University professors she suggested that I look at hard skills instead. Since then she has done a 180 degree turn around and currently agrees that soft skills have a place in the business world.

Remember in school when you learned a new formula that you could just pop in a math question and then work out the answer? We had one that we used so often our teacher called it “Charlie”. He would say, “Well you know just use Charlie.” We’d all nod and away we’d go using the set ...

Daydreamer

Kate Jones — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:08:22 +0100

Do you like dreaming about the vacation of a life time? Or just the vacation you are taking this summer? It is one of those wonderful things we can do on a February day when we have the blahs -- or any time we just want to de- stress -- if only for a few minutes.

So much is written by “experts” about kids, including temperaments and behaviour, that parents can feel overwhelmed. I know I was when our kids were growing up.

Now I enjoy reading columns like Rachel Love’s in Centre Daily Times, that&nbs...

Beat the Blahs ... Bowl With A Preschooler

Kate Jones — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:00:00 +0100

It was a Friday night ... a night for two introverts to call it a week, stay in and relax. That is until the phone rang with an SOS that we were needed to help supervise four kids at a bowling party, including a 2-nearly- 3 year old.

Since I am a facilitato...