Hello,
Just an old gal trying to figure it out. I was active as an educator for much of my life and am now focused on facilitating and writing.
I am the co-founder of the Inside Outside Retreat Centre – we offer in-person and online opportunities for folks to put aside obligations, expectations and busyness and engage in personal, private reflection and gentle, reciprocal dialogue.
I love walking, being among the trees and good, open questions.
I live in Toronto, Canada – the traditional territory of many Indigenous nations including the Haudenosaunee, Wendat, Anishnabeg, and more recently the Mississaugas of the Credit. It is the ongoing home to many, diverse First Nations, Métis and Inuit people. Toronto is part of the Dish with One Spoon Territory covenant and as a resident here I am invited into and accept the agreement to share and care for this land and its people.
Hello,
Just an old gal trying to figure it out. I was active as an educator for much of my life and am now focused on facilitating and writing.
I am the co-founder of the Inside Outside Retreat Centre – we offer in-person and online opportunities for folks to put aside obligations, expectations an…
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The essence of joyful productivity - the Energy Reboot - and what it's done for me...
Daily energy reboot is the secret of working lightly. My secret of staying healthy and personally sustainable, working focused hours more consistently than most people, even though I’m actually easily distractible. But I keep returning, returning, returning... In this lesson's video I describe the foundation of the Energy Reboot.
Wow, George, this is really powerful. And I think, hope, it explains or relates to something I've experienced over the last year. This time last year, anytime I put an offering out there I would fret about how many people signed up. I would feel embarrassed if only a few people signed up. As I waited for registrations to come in - I would think about when would be my cut-off day to cancel the offering, if not enough people signed up.
And then I had a free in-person event where a lot of people signed up - and only one person came. I wasn't actually surprised. But for some reason, I went ahead with just that one person and it was terrific - we went deep and she seemed really happy and valued what we did that morning.
And out of that I start to question what "enough" meant. And realize that success wasn't about how many people came. If one person came it was still worth doing.
And I let go of numbers. And I did a lot less "marketing" - I just put stuff out there - and waited. And people come now, not dozens, but I realize I love small. And I don't spend a lot of time "promoting" - but try to stick to "offering." And I feel so much less attached to those external measures of success.
Thanks for reminding me of what matters.