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Core Values Check-In, October

Posted on October 20, 2016 by admin

I had hoped to be able to check in more often with my core values, but life doesn’t always accommodate personal reflection. Yet in many ways, it has been an ideal six weeks for testing those values. Time to see how they’ve held up within the maelstrom of cultural, geographic, and linguistic acclimatization – in…

Transforming Core Values, Part 2

Posted on September 1, 2016September 1, 2016 by admin

In my last post, I wrote about three of the core values I recently chose for myself, to use as guidelines for my actions and reactions while I travel from Canada to France. Here, with the remaining four, I’m moving away from Buddhist territory and into the realm of Western self-help books. Still, for all…

Transforming Core Values, Part 1

Posted on August 30, 2016 by admin

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” –Seneca Seven years ago, I moved from Alberta to Cape Breton. The big restart. I knew what I was going towards, more or less—a wife, a house, a job. But at the same time, I knew that I wouldn’t simply be…