Embracing change and responding quickly is so much more than simply being flexible. When talking about flexibility in my previous blog, we explored the various reasons why it’s important to be adaptable and make the most of changes we encounter.…
As part of our perpetual desire to improve ourselves and our lives, we continually set goals. Having goals keeps us hopeful, inspired, and challenged, but our ability to reach them is dependent on many factors; the key one being motivation.…
We live in an incredibly fast-paced, competitive, and often turbulent time, with everything changing at warp-speed. I can barely get through a day without a software update or new coffee flavour being pitched at me! As humans, we are made…
Navigating Challenges The theme for this month’s insight is navigating challenges…and obviously we’re going to be talking a little bit about white water kayaking as well! I had the opportunity last weekend to go white water kayaking with my brother-in-law…
Reframing Activities Today I want to talk to you about reframing activities, which is really a dimension of agile leadership. As many of you know, I’m very much an advocate of agile leadership practices. In terms of reframing activities, most…
January 10 We woke early to avoid the heat of the day. Still 3-4 hours hike before we would reach Punta de Vacas. We took our tent down quickly, (starting to get really good at this) brushed our teeth, packed…
January 9th Questions of when the mules would come and our general exhaustion led to once again a late departure. Almost 12 before we waved goodbye to our glaciated rocky perch at Plaza Argentina. Once again the world seemed quite…
January 8th; Okay we slept in, don’t tell our father’s that we wasted a day relaxing. Up by 9 and somehow dragged together our camp into our packs by 11, and on the homeward journey. Both of us had slept…
January 7th I slept on and off restless for this day to come. I was worried that we might have to turn back part way from exhaustion or symptoms of HACE (high altitude cerebral edema) or HAPE (high altitude pulmonary…
January 6, 2017 All that night and day before I had been tossing around in my mind what to do. We still had a lot of elevation and didn’t want to push it, but at the same time this could…
January 5th. I guess we were getting lazy, or had been working to hard with very little oxygen to breath. For some reason I had thought a rest day at 5000m would be good for our bodies and Laura had…
January 4th. Opting to charge ahead of the other three groups we had been climbing with to this point we skipped their rest day and and headed for the higher camp for good. A gravel pad 800m higher than the…
