Happy Birthday, Canada - it's okay to be imperfect if you keep trying
Today is July 1 - Canada Day, and because Canada 150 is a big deal, it's been greeted with big protests. Everywhere on social media, protestors are disrupting the celebration because Canada has not always been good to them or for them. I get it. You're mad. Somebody screwed up and you want us to fix it (even though exactly how to do that is up for some debate). You're angry because you're stuck and you don't see a way to make it better. You're angry because you're black, you're indigenous, you're left wing, you're right wing, or you've been left out in the rain or out of the speech (sorry, Alberta). Here are some house rules you might consider based on something called the six step reframe in NLP: 1) it's better when you can generate lots of new ideas - innovation takes cooperation and respect 2) the best ideas come from our best selves - the ones Canadians try to remember in celebrating a national birthday (ideals li...