Meg Salter

To Change Your Habits, Find the Gap Between No and Yes

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When we are faced with change or choice, we often rely on our regular habits in making a decision. A good friend of mine was recently offered an opportunity to partner on a project with someone who had been a trusted mentor to her. There were many positives about the opportunity. Because my friend is a positive, open minded person who often says yes, she made some exploratory first steps. Eventually, she decided not to pursue the opportunity. As we were talking, I remarked,

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Growing into the New Resilience

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For some people, it’s a dull flat feeling of being stuck. For others, it’s a frantic sense of never enough time, working hard but spinning your wheels. Or it could be felt as an angry cynicism about missing out or giving up on long held aspirations. While we each feel this IT differently, we all know what it is not. It is not feeling ready or able to adapt in our lives. We may yearn to express and become more of who we deeply are,

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Get the Full Picture; Leaders See Multiple Perspectives in a Complex World

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Many of us are enjoying watching the Winter Olympics, cheering on athletes, witnessing the human drama of endurance, winning and defeat. And many of us are disturbed at the disjunction of human rights and sports in Sochi. Craig and Mark Kielburger  of Free the Children and Me to We  asked both experts and readers in a recent Globe and Mail column to respond to the question, “How do we enjoy the Olympic Winter Games without ignoring human rights issues ?”

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Mindfulness – Getting Real in Your Own Life

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You may have noticed a recent proliferation of media attention to the benefits of mindfulness. As a decades-long meditation and mindfulness practitioner, I’m glad to see all this good press. Indeed, Huffington Post names mindfulness as a top trend for 2014.

If Mindfulness is the solution, what’s the problem?

If you’re going to commit time to develop a skill like mindfulness, you need to know not just the general benefits,  but which of your specific challenges it will help with.  

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The Dilemma of Leadership

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Like many others, I have been reflecting on the life and global contribution of Nelson Mandela. What struck me most was how over the course of his life he embraced paradox. He experienced the suffering of 21 years of imprisonment, yet learned to forgive. He started as a freedom fighter, “the spear of the nation” for his people, yet followed a path of peace and reconciliation.

As leaders, many of us  find ourselves ‘on the horns of a dilemma’,

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