On the heels of this year’s Olympic Excellence Series, I’d like to once again send out my thanks to everyone who attended.  100 athletes +  120 coaches and staff from 16 sports arrived and it really felt like 1 team left.  You are Passionate, Ready, Resilient, Confident and United. (Passionnée, Prête, Resiliente, confiante, et unie).

From Ray Zahab’s “no limits” message – the audacity of a smoker believing he could cross a continent worth of sand!, Sylvie’s realization that sometimes humans really do need to be shaken up – because you CAN is not enough; You have to WANT it – badly.  Both of them spoke of staying focused on your commitment to ‘self’ and the journey – that looking, and going, forward was the only option.

Johann’s understanding of the self instructions of the ‘short true sentences’ that only we hear – how powerful was that!! His acceptance of a being a team member who’s role was to make the athletes around him stronger is what made him a 4 time Olympic Gold medallist (3 in front of a Home crowd).

The freshness of Adam’s message was evident as he spoke. Continue reading →

French to follow

I continue to find inspiration from the strangest places.

A few weeks ago I was station surfing on the car radio and a song I’ve never heard before came on… a line in it went something like “let go of thought and let instinct take control”.  It hit a bell for me.  Wouldn’t it be great if it was a simple as that! Continue reading →

Did you notice that it’s March already!!

And the winner is…

for Best suggested movie in a Motivational or Inspirational Category… Man on Wire, suggested by Jenn Heil. Not only is this movie, a documentary about a guy who illegally strung a wire from one of the World Trade Towers to the other and then walked it, an inspiration it went and won the Oscar for Best Doc. Thanks Jenn!

Honorable mention for movie suggestion goes to Helen Upperton for suggesting Coach Carter and tagging this line:

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Continue reading →

Salut! Hi everyone…

Hope January was a great month for everyone… so much happened!

Three thoughts for this note… TIME being the central topic.

1)     The Super Bowl was this past weekend.  I’m sure many of you were not able to watch what turned out to be a great game. The Arizona Cardinals were in the process of making the largest comeback in the game’s history.  They came from 17 points back to be leading the game 23-20 with only 2.5 minutes to go. The quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers then orchestrated a very purposeful drive that resulted with a phenomenal toes-just-barely-touching-catch to win the game. When asked immediately after the game what he said to the guys to begin the drive the quarterback simply said, “It’s now or Never”.

This ties in with a speaker I heard the other day,  Eckhart Tolle.  He spoke about how the mind likes to clutter ‘Now’ with thoughts of the past and the future.  That we can so easily miss the opportunity to be present because of our wandering mind. (I am SO guilty of this!)  Continue reading →