The Gyst Life

123- Our Unseen Emotional Drivers

What happens when good intentions lead us down unpredictable paths?
In today’s episode, a loss of a beloved 🐾 feline friend and a surprise adoption 🐱❤️ highlights the powerful connection between logic and passion.

122 - The Balancing Act: Control & Integrity

🎨 The Balancing Act: Control & Integrity 🌟
Humans seek freedom in their work, but often feel paralyzed. This stems from the interplay between control and integrity.
💡 Control: The Power to Influence
Stability & Predictability Efficiency & Flexibility
🔍 Integrity: Honesty & Authenticity
Authenticity & Connection Longevity & Meaning
Finding balance can be challenging, as these forces sometimes clash. Embrace both control and integrity on your creative journey.
 
 

121 - My 4 Characters

Picture this, you’re having a stroke
The left side of your brain is turning off
You’re leaving the linear external world
Your identity is gone
Your ability to communicate is gone
All your past memories and your future aspirations, 3/4 of what defines you as a human being poof!
And for 8 years you navigate pure bliss, free of morality, judgement and the need to adapt to our environment
 
Let’s explore that for a moment
Sources:
My Stroke of Insight
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=en
Whole Brain Living by Jill Taylor Bolte
https://amzn.to/462la69

120 - The Art of Sensemaking

Some say we're spending about 82hrs per week consuming and collecting information. 
That's a staggering 69% of our waking hours.
So many great ideas, yet so much missed meaning.
So many really impactful moments I promised myself I would hold onto to be able to look back on, only to have it slip through my fingers.
Not because it was no longer relevant but because I just can’t recall what it was or where I stored it.
I desire to make sense of the world around me and find myself almost drowning it the magnitude of this venture.
 
Let’s explore the practice of sense making and personal knowledge management.
 

119 - Know Thyself

If the objective is to live your life by your design, then you should consider asking yourself this question:
Who do you want to be known as, and who do you know yourself to be?

118 - Telling a Great Story

As an artist, I think the biggest opportunity for you and for me is to learn how to tell our story.
To reveal who we really areThe experiences we've gone throughThe struggles that have defined usand the awareness, or confusion that's brought.
The seeds of doubt that have settled inThe influences that directed our focus, the deeper restlessness that continues to go unresolvedAnd the parallels between what's true and what's been manufactured.
This is far from easy work though.
 

117 - What’s true for you?

You say you're open, but you're really not.
You're excited to share, but won't dare get caught.
You've made discoveries, but stick with the familiar.
what's true for you is not always aligned with your actions.
As creatives, the opportunity for you is to lean in and put yourselves, your thoughts and your work out there for more people to interact with.
This is the second mapping the mindstream.
Today I want to talk about truth and having your ideas challenged.

116 - Unraveling What’s Next

To live a finite life in an infinite world...
Defining who we are, what we do and the contribution we seek to provide in a constantly shifting world is a hard question to get absolutely clarity on because we ourselves are constantly evolving and changing.
New discoveries, new priorities and new curiosities leave yesterday’s clarifying moment a distant memory.
That is the game of life.
Just new levels to unlock.

115 - How to Rise Above the Noise - Matt Halloran

To Matt Haloran, we are 99.99% alike, we are all more than friends and acquaintances, we are family. 
Having come from humble beginnings, Matt has been everyone, from a therapist, to a life coach, to a successful entrepreneur yet, what makes him the most successful it is his ability to listen deeply and discover what is so unique about you; in order for you to rise above the noise.
Join me in this episode, as we dive through Matt’s history, vision and passion for his team and company to discover what makes him such an admirable person.
 
Key Takeaways:
To listen deeply, we must want to have the desire to listen.
We Failure it’s part of being human, and because of it we can be even more efficient.
Culture it’s the soil that cultivates the fruits of your company.

114 - Do You Actually Relate to People? | Over Drinks with Evan Woolley

How can the right leadership navigate the recent, and history repeated, events in order to continue moving forward? There really is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ leadership; just misled leaders. Leading and navigating with your team is a process that grows with the amount of obstacles you face and overcome. Trust in an organization and in the public, as we’ll hear in this episode, is an essential element that sprouts from experiences, struggles and the ability as a leader to relate with his people.
 
It can feel like a hamonic dance yet a constant battle of dealing with problems and discovering solutions.
In a big organization like the government, which is built to go slow and careful, can create a sense of disconnect and unrelatedness to the common people as the world moves faster and faster. Join me today as the youngest  councillor for the city of Calgary, Evan Woolley, shares his insights and knowledge from a curtain many of us are not familiar with.
 
Key Takeaways:
 
have the audacity to challenge what was said to be “absolute” to say ‘no’ when it was always a yes. 
Do natural born leaders really have a better chance at being great leaders than those who learn the skills through experience and failure?
What is the secret sauce to be heard? Is being trusting and authentic enough?