Good Morning – The Path To Greatness

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr The path to greatness is never easy, if it was everyone would be great.  There are incidents and events that sometimes serve to stretch our very being, things that challenge us at our core.  Like always we must embrace these events, learn from them so as to deal with them better [...]

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A Fatty Liver

Source:  Jarel Cockburn Flickr Two years ago I was diagnosed with a non-alcoholic fatty liver. I was overweight for my age and a long way away from the athlete I used to be. A really long way. Eating whatever and whenever had been my approach to nutrition and exercise was a distant memory. My liver [...]

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Fearlessness, Tunnel Vision & The Yacht In Brazil

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr From time to time I read this article -Wide Receiver Jarel Cockburn Drafted 48th CFL’s Argonauts.  This article was written almost 10 years ago, 11 days before my 23rd birthday {I am dating myself, I know} and just a couple of weeks before graduation.  By this point I had interned on Wall Street, [...]

Tagged as: Fearlessness

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Passions

Source: Jarel Cockburn Flickr “Passion” is such a catchy word these days.  All the self-help gurus and the wannabe self-help gurus preach about finding your passion and living out your dreams.  I believe there is some truth to it.  But how do you really go about it?  How do you fit it into your lifestyle? [...]

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Lessons From FlashJam #2

All in all it was a great time had by all who attended.  We had a great set; Mike Celia on guitar, Sway on bass, Dan on keys and Ekow on the drums. Gabriel who incidentally did a post on the Flashjam the day before hopped on guitar just before Mike Celia showed up. This [...]

Tagged as: Arts, Music

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MBY 5: Teams Are Ultra Important – They Can Mean The Difference Between Victory or Outright Failure

It has been a while since I did an update on My Breakout Year but forgive me.  In any case, I had planned to write about generating financial projections for your new venture/business (and doing some real interesting boring stuff with numbers) but I was so inspired this weekend by a special group of women [...]

Tagged as: Business, Canada, Edelman Canada, KUPE Arts Society, Montreal, Non-profit organization, Public relations, Toronto, Vancouver

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A Short Guide To Group Buying Sites For Business Owners

Last year, I did a post about Groupon.com (UPDATE: this is a referral link) launching in Toronto and just this past week the folks at Groupon have finally blessed the city of Toronto with its amazing deal engine.  As a follow-up to that post I thought I would write a small guide for business owners who [...]

Tagged as: Groupon, Marketing

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