Duncan’s Blog
A collection of human transformation practices, lenses, and perspectives including: tools for re-authoring our relationships to nature and each other, tools for facilitating better conversations, behaviour change concepts, experiential tourism and community development, community based marketing resources, and more.
Why Telling People What to Do Doesn’t Work
Telling your community or customers what to do doesn't work. I've seen people try this over and over again in community and business. Traditional conferences are the worst for this, where some sort of expert spews a bunch of facts and tells the audience what to do....
Why Your Website Might Be Leaving Money on the Table
As a followup to "How to Build Trust and Grow Sales in 2017," here's a helpful infographic that Bluewire Media created, based on consumer research, that explains various ways to help customers get to know your enterprise, trust it, and buy from it in 2017. As you can...
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How to build trust and grow sales in 2017
People who like you will listen to you, people who trust you will buy from you. - Zig Zigler People buy from who they know, like, and trust. From working with over 50 growing food businesses in the past 5 years, I know that the fastest growing enterprises invest more...
5 Second Rule Brain Hack that Has Changed My Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=supVPLOHWPg Recently I watched this 5 Second Rule podcast interview of Mel Robbins and it's rapidly increased my productivity by reducing procrastination and overthinking in the last few days. It's also helped me to understand how...
How to listen with unselfish understanding
I love Brain Pickings, it's such a "breath of fresh air" on Sunday mornings. Recently I've delved into learning about participatory group processes as means to make better decisions with collaborators and make better decisions for our local food and health system....
Slow food is peasant food
Slow food is peasant food. It is the way our families have been growing and preparing food for centuries. It tastes good, it's feels clean, and it's honest. We feel more alive when we eat it. Learn more about Slow Food in Canada and the upcoming national summit Eating...
Canadian Hero Wab Kinew Drops Some Wisdom
Here's a mic dropping moment from Wab Kinew. We have so much to learn about peace and living with nature from the indigenous people of Turtle Island (Aka North America). My interpretation of the best ways to learn in this video: Immersion and learn through doing Learn...
Happiness Music by Coco Love Alcorn
Anne and I saw Coco Love Alcorn at Al Whittle Theatre in Wolfville. Her new album Wonderland is mind blowing. The album's theme is "the spirit" and the music is wondrously soulful, lively, and inspiring. As you may know, I loooove coffee, so it's a big statement for...
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