No #158 | March 2, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. I saw this tweet below last week and it felt very relatable. For whatever reason, I always find the last couple of weeks of February to be extra draining. But as soon as we round the corner into March, and the weather starts to get nicer, and we change the clocks, I seem to feel a fresh start, energized by the excitement of the adventures ahead in spring and summer🐣. In this week's Lead It...
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No #157 | February 23, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. What a hockey game on Thursday night😲🙌. Canada needed that. I was able to watch it with a few friends and my kids and we'll remember that Connor McDavid goal for a lifetime. Looking forward to the rematch at the Olympics next year🥇. In this week's Lead It Cool newsletter: 👀Out of Site, Out of Mind 🏥How to Avoid the Doctor 🖊️Comparison Kills Creativity 🤣Goose 😎Cool Links 👀Out of Site, Out...
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No #167 | February 16, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. Tonight is Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary special (I feel old 🤷♂️). For what it's worth, my favourite SNL sketch of all time is Chris Farley's instant coffee hidden camera commercial. His initial reaction gets me every time😂. In this week's Lead It Cool newsletter: 🏒Sidney Crosby 👪Family Day 😆February 😎Cool Links 🏒Sidney Crosby The Four Nations Face-Off, a mini tournament that pits...
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No #166 | February 9, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. Yesterday (Saturday), I got the opportunity to attend the Invictus Games opening ceremony in Vancouver. The Invictus Games are an international multi-sport competition for wounded and sick military personnel, both serving and veterans. To say the event was inspiring would be an understatement. While the musical acts were incredible (Katy Perry!), the athlete's stories were what truly moved...
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No #165 | February 2, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. One of my new year's resolutions is to start playing more video games. Why? It's good for the brain, apparently. So I was playing Fall Guys with my kids on the PS5 and my teenage son says, as only a teenage boy could, "Dad, you're gonna suck at this." Little did he know that I spent most of my teenage years playing Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64, so I was unfazed by his warning. Well... it...
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No #164 | January 26, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool. Twenty years ago today (January 26), I had my "meet cute" moment with my wife, Valentina. I'm forever grateful that the universe brought us together on that day💗. In this week's Lead It Cool newsletter: 🤑Beast Games 👷♀️How Big Things Get Done 🧠Brain Discomfort 🧘♀️Yoga Directions😆 😎Cool Links 🤑Beast Games This week, my daughter came up to me with that serious tone kids use when they’re about to hit you...
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No #163 | January 19, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. HOW ARE YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS GOING?😆 In all seriousness, one of my resolutions this year is to drink more water in the morning. To encourage this, before I go to bed every night I pour a big glass of water and I put it within immediate reaching distance when I wake up in the morning, thus making it as effortless as possible (and it's working). In this week's Lead It Cool newsletter:...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
No #162 | January 12, 2025 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. Unofficial rules of a community rec-centre sauna: No phones or mobile devices (take a digital break) No lying down on the benches (unless you are the only one inside the sauna) Any conversations should be quiet and uncontentious (the sauna is not the place for an in depth argument/debate on <INSERT CURRENT CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC HERE>)😂 Am I missing anything? In this week's Lead It Cool...
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No #161 | January 5, 2024 by Matthew Boyd Good morning, welcome to the weekly Lead It Cool newsletter. Last week, I mentioned that we need a name for the awkward days that fall between Christmas and New Years. This Xeet showed up in my timeline and it is 🎯. From this day forward, the days between Christmas and New Years will be formally known as Monday + Friday: "The Frondays"😆 In this week's Lead It Cool newsletter: 🐶Dog Wisdom 🐠This is Water 🎣Fisherman Wisdom 🤣What is Email 😎Cool Links 🐶Dog...
2 months ago • 4 min read