Category Archives: Leadership

Dec
17
NoDepositNoReturn2
It was the slogan for the grade 9 orientation at my high old school where I used to volunteer as a group leader and motivational speaker: “No Deposit, No Return.” When I asked my good friend Sandra, the co-organizer of the orientation, why she called it that, she explained she and the other organizer were inspired by how Coke bottles used to say that. If you don’t give a deposit, you won’t get any return. In a similar light, if the students...
Posted in Leadership, Life |
Dec
16
COFFEE
For the longest while, I used to wonder why the heck I took Aerospace Engineering in school. I mean, I pretty much use none of it in my life nowadays… or at least I thought. Over the past few days I’ve been discovering incredible connections between what I learned about in engineering and living a life of leadership. One of these analogies was that of a coffee cup. In thermodynamics class (study of heat) we learned something along the lines (it’s been a...
Posted in Engineering, Leadership, Life, Passion |
Oct
16
IntegrityMatters
I am about to share with you what will be the hardest post I’ve ever had to write. It is a post that makes me feel extremely vulnerable. I’m sharing it because I realize it is an important part in fulfilling my purpose of empowering communication. The intention of this post is simple, if you’re trying to prove a point, pick on yourself. Although unique in our own way we’ve all lived through similar struggles, and the best example to use for others to...
Posted in Be The Change, Leadership, Life |
Oct
7
WhatIf
“What if?”… it’s a powerful statement; however, that power depends on it’s use. Many times we use ‘What If?” as a way to ‘talk ourselves’ (or more like convince ourselves through thought) out of things. We want to build an idea to change the world and voila it appears…”What if it doesn’t work?”, “What if nobody likes it?”, “What if it sucks?”, ‘What if I can’t...
Posted in Leadership, Life Lessons |
Oct
6
Landmark
  There are not a whole lot of things that I’ve advocated for in my life, and certainly nothing as much as I’ve been doing for Landmark Education. As I’ve been doing it I’ve been hearing a lot of things about my ‘sudden interest’ in it. I agree, it can be very strange… almost ‘cult’ like. Since I was in that position when I was introduced to the course, I thought I’d write a post on my genuine answers to what...
Posted in Leadership, Life Lessons |
Sep
26
Bipolar
  What I’m about to tell you is going to either blow your mind, or drive you crazy! We’re all bipolar. Now I already know the 2 extremes of thinking that are probably going on. “What the heck is he talking about?” “Dude this guy is nuts!” “K seriously Ryan, I think you need some help.” “I’m don’t like all this crazy talk.” On the other extreme it would be “Hmm this...
Posted in Be The Change, Leadership, Life |
Sep
18
DoGood
  If you read my ‘About Me’ section you’ll learn that in my youth I was bullied for 6 years. Throughout it all I began creating this belief that I didn’t fit in. That I didn’t belong. That something was wrong with me. To cope, I decided that to show others that I did ‘fit in’ I would always make sure I’m right… I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be normal. I wanted to ‘look good’ so people would accept...
Posted in Be The Change, Leadership, Life Lessons |
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