For my Integral Coaching course I completed last week, we were asked to watch the below TED video before one of the sessions. I love it when TED videos are packed with truth bombs, and this one is no exception: It’s one of the characteristics of a leader: that he not doubt for one moment …
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mar
27
Feel Alive. So Alive.
Wake up. Press play. Feel alive. Enjoy this morning’s dance party:
Mar
26
Conquering Plateaus By Embracing The Edge.
Athletic performance, academic programs, career advancement, long-term relationships. They all reach plateaus. Places where things become familiar for an extended period of time. The same finish time. The same stresses. The same routine. The same morning breath. These plateaus are edges. Edges are uncomfortable. They test our patience and tenacity. Edges also invite us to …
Mar
24
Conquering Impossibilities
Each time I step to the edge of pool before swim practice, I time travel back to March 2008. It is a flash from Storm the Wall: North America’s largest intramural event, a 5-part swim-sprint-bike-run-climb a 12-foot wall relay race, a right of passage for anyone who attended UBC, and a yearly tradition for me …
Mar
22
Imagine Ethiopia 2012: Join the Team
In support of imagine1day‘s big goal for all Ethiopians to have access to quality education funded free of foreign aid by 2030, some of my favourite people have signed up and committed to heading to Ethiopia this fall as part of Imagine Ethiopia. I am told it is the experience of a lifetime and a …
Mar
21
Advice For Your lululemon athletica Interview
I enjoy when friends and soon-to-be-friends reach out for insight or advice. With the application for lululemon athletica’s summer internship program now open and underway, I am getting more and more of the same question: “Do you have any tips or insights for me for my interview?” Disclaimer: not working with the company right now …
Mar
19
#51 and #65 – The Ireland Adventure
My excitement as I write this post is palpable. The amazing after effect of this past weekend in Ireland has yet to wear off. I could tell you about the cool lass from Cork I met in the airport who competed in the Wife Carrying World Championship and gave me a list of things to …
Mar
15
This Corker Is Getting (un)Corked
I spent 12 hours today in front of a computer screen. I watched the sun go down from behind my computer screen. Rode my bike home from school to then, you guessed it, sit in front of a computer screen. … and the payoff? One ten page market penetration analysis of Nike in South Africa …
Mar
13
Adam Martin: A Plea With The Religious
corker #4: Adam Martin! Adam and I met during our high school years at a leadership conference and then moved out to the west coast where we lived, studied, partied, and worked together at UBC and beyond. His love of chocolate milk, volleyball, and college football is only surpassed by his love for helping others. …
Mar
12
VCIC in Oxford: Stepping Up Our Game
We arrived in Oxford Wednesday night, hungry and tired from all the traveling. We spent Thursday morning getting acquainted with our surroundings by touring the campus, picking up our bowties (or butterflies as the Danes would call them), and grabbing a bite to eat before heading to the Said Business School to start the VCIC …
