Milisa Burns 8/30/13 Milisa Burns 8/30/13

What Are Your Keystone Habits?

Are you a creature of habit, of carefully crafted rituals and routines meant to help you function at your best? When those habits are not as achievable as usual, do you feel like a fish out of water, struggling to breathe? Does this situation often make you feel stuck and frustrated?

Milisa Burns 7/31/13 Milisa Burns 7/31/13

Do You Know How Much of Your Happiness is Actually Within Your Control?

Scientific research has validated what you might have learned from experience or have heard from a wise elder: a large portion of our happiness is within our control and has little to do with our life circumstances. Science is also showing why happiness should be an important goal for us.

Milisa Burns 6/27/13 Milisa Burns 6/27/13

Rose Coloured Lenses? Yes… and So Much More!

When something good happens to you, do you routinely say: "I was just lucky", or quickly see who else you can give credit to for that good thing? When something bad happens to you, do you usually chastise yourself about it and then think about how often this kind of thing happens to you?

Milisa Burns 5/10/13 Milisa Burns 5/10/13

Words from the Wise: Marriage and Parenting

Some of you may already have read my earlier post: DD is 100 Years Old Today! What's her Secret?, about my maternal grandmother, Mildred Maclean (aka, to her grandchildren and many others, "DD"). I wrote it for her 100th birthday on March 8, 2011. She is now 102! She is slowing down but is still very engaged in the world.

Milisa Burns 5/2/13 Milisa Burns 5/2/13

I didn't realize how anxiety had taken over my life until I "took stock" with Milisa

I feel more connected to my family and co-workers. I am no longer getting in my own way at work. I am moving forward!

Milisa Burns 4/29/13 Milisa Burns 4/29/13

The Freedom of Being of Service

I encourage you to keep a mindset of service while you are designing this work. Keep it front and centre and that will help ground you - how can you being of service in your own unique way help your clients and your organization?

Milisa Burns 4/15/13 Milisa Burns 4/15/13

Milisa is an expert who has a library in her head...

My VIP Retreat Day with Milisa was like having a heart to heart with a girlfriend, only it was all about me for a change. I felt the results from the Day right away. It's shocking to see how uplifted you can feel with just a change to your attitude!

Milisa Burns 3/31/13 Milisa Burns 3/31/13

Where's Our Passion?

Have you ever yearned to find more passion, or even some passion, in your work? Reading Lean In: Women, Work and The Will To Lead by Sheryl Sandberg over March Break made me remember an experience when I so strongly felt that yearning.

Milisa Burns 2/27/13 Milisa Burns 2/27/13

Inspiration on the Bunny Hill

When I was a very little girl, age 3, my Dad, Dr. Wilson Rodger, taught me to downhill ski. I had tiny red wooden skis and a bit of an attitude. Lucky us: we had a wee but perfect hill for learning to ski a 10 minute ride away - the London Ski Club, affectionately known as the "Byron Bump".

Milisa Burns 1/30/13 Milisa Burns 1/30/13

More Than Just A Plum Pudding

For as long as I can remember, my maternal grandmother, Mildred Maclean ("DD" to me), would make the plum pudding for our Christmas dinner. A few years ago, when she was well into her 90s, I took over the role of plum pudding maker.

Milisa Burns 11/29/12 Milisa Burns 11/29/12

Disconnected!

This post is about noticing disconnect and encouraging vulnerability. By "disconnected", I am referring to a situation in which our perception of ourselves is very different from how others see us.

Milisa Burns 11/16/12 Milisa Burns 11/16/12

Amazing Value Gained From Coaching!

The day after my VIP Retreat Day with Milisa I stopped obsessing about my work. The value I gained from Milisa's coaching was amazing!

Milisa Burns 10/30/12 Milisa Burns 10/30/12

My Food Story: From A Shameful Secret to A Helpful Tale

This is definitely the hardest blog post I have written since I started two years ago. I have been thinking about it for over a year, debating with myself about whether to share this story with you.

Milisa Burns 9/14/12 Milisa Burns 9/14/12

Take Your Exercise!

As professional women, we tend to be in our heads a lot - analyzing, judging, sorting, drafting, calculating. Lots of left side of the brain stuff. It is quite easy to begin to neglect our bodies when we are so in our heads. However, in doing so, we are really cheating ourselves.

Milisa Burns 7/16/12 Milisa Burns 7/16/12

Is Your Body A Ball and Chain or a Place of Refuge? (Epiphany in the Gatineau Hills)

For part of last summer, like every summer of my life, I spent some time up at our family cottage on Blue Sea Lake, in Quebec's Gatineau Hills, north of Ottawa. Our extended family has been going to this place for seven generations. There are many many things I love about the place and the people there. When I am there, I make a point of getting out on the old railroad track, which has been converted into a fitness trail. I love to run and walk on it. So, on one of these occasions last summer, I was out on the trail with my dog, and I had an epiphany.

Milisa Burns 7/16/12 Milisa Burns 7/16/12

It's absolutely clear to me that Milisa is made for this coaching role!

My coaching process with Milisa has been a tremendously rewarding experience. Milisa balances the broad perspective with astute and creative insights and strategies and a warm blend of humour and support.

Milisa Burns 6/11/12 Milisa Burns 6/11/12

Yes!

It's been almost a year since I began focusing on managing energy not time in many of my posts (see Managing Energy Not Time - Refuelling at the Dog Park, which was the first post). I have really enjoyed having that as an overarching theme, since it is integral to how I live my life and how I approach my coaching practice.

Milisa Burns 4/17/12 Milisa Burns 4/17/12

What Do I Want For This Relationship?

First a little background. This blog post is based on an email I recently sent out in gratitude to the participants of the Making Room For You Assessment. The focus of this email I sent out was on learning how to manage relationships better, both personal and professional. Here's what I said.

Milisa Burns 3/23/12 Milisa Burns 3/23/12

Something Lost, More Found

My family and I were lucky enough to be able to go to Florida last week for March Break. We had a really lovely holiday; lots of good "family of five" time as well as fun times with grandparents and a great aunt and great uncle. We arrived quite exhausted and left much more relaxed.

Milisa Burns 2/21/12 Milisa Burns 2/21/12

Milisa gives me the confidence to trust myself

Milisa was great at asking the right questions and intuitively guiding me to look within myself.

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