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Reading Challenge: Facing failure

August 28, 2016 No Comments

Winners and losers, this is how we’ve divided up the world. There is no grey area, no participation ribbons to be given out for good efforts (as much as we like to pretend that there are). We shower our winners with glory and quickly forget about those that strived but did not succeed. We are taught to idolize winners and to model ourselves after them, but what happens when we ourselves strive and falter? What happens when we attempt to reach for greatness...

Think big and aspire to change the world.

This is the message of BOLD by Peter H. Diamandis. He challenges us to disrupt industries and build platforms around ‪#‎ExponentialGrowth‬.

I got to chat with local exponential entrepreneur @Barry Mills CEO of 3D Currax Solutions who is pioneering new 3D Printing technologies that are changing the landscape of manufacturing right now.

Thank you to UBC Okanagan for the opportunity to access your incredible laboratory and for sharing your inspiring technical knowledge.

‪#‎AI‬ ‪#‎Robotics‬ ‪#‎Crowdsourcing‬ ‪#‎3DPrinting‬
‪#‎BeBold‬ ‪#‎BeBetter‬ ‪#‎TheFutureIsNow‬ ‪#‎AspireToInspire‬ ‪#‎10Books1Month‬

What if you woke up covered in blood and had no recollection of the night before?
What happened?? What did you do?!
A good book should hook you in and keep you emotionally invested until the very last page and that’s exactly the case with The Girl on the Train ‪
#‎Thiller‬‪#‎Mystery‬ ‪#‎Obsession‬ ‪#‎10Books1Month‬

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Reading Challenge: Life is better when shared

August 20, 2016 No Comments

Think of some things that you’re really passionate about, the things you do just for fun? Watching movies, playing games, going for hikes, taking out the boat? Now, what if they couldn’t be shared with anyone and you had to do all of those things completely alone. Would they still be as much fun? Would you still enjoy them? I’m willing to guess probably not nearly as much… It’s our community, our social glue that makes our experiences so fulfilling. We venture out...

#10Books1Month – The Girls On The Train

What if you woke up covered in blood and had no recollection of the night before? What happened?? What did you do?!

A good book should hook you in and keep you emotionally invested until the very last page and that’s exactly the case with The Girl on the Train #Thiller #Mystery #Obsession #10Books1Month

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Reading Challenge: Do less, experience more

August 17, 2016 No Comments

“Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.” This quote by famous 1980’s movie philosopher Ferris Buller has always been one of my favourites. It’s stood as a reminder for me that life is precious and not to be wasted, that life needs to be about fun and entertainment just as much as it does about work and achievement. This quote has inspired me to live a more adventurous...

#10Books1Month is taking a #LongWeekend! Taking my book reading to the lake for an awesome #Summer #CampingTrip. See you guys on Monday!

#EnjoyTheMoments #EnjoyTheSummer #BeautifulBC

Paris, France, ‪#‎TheRoaring20s‬, ‪#‎Drinking‬ ‪#‎Fighting‬ and Ernest Hemingway.

I read The Sun Also Rises for book 2 of ‪#‎10Books1Month‬. Check out my review

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Reading Challenge: Have We Forgotten About Books

August 7, 2016 No Comments

When was the last time you picked up a good book and really invested yourself into it? Not a magazine or a TMZ article, not a news update or a blog rant but a real life, paperback, ink on your fingers, read until you fall asleep kind of book. A week, a month, a year? For me it has been many years since I had bothered to attempt a real book. Excluding the odd comic book (a nerdy pastime of mine) I...