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Dog Days of Summer 22 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once! Woody Allen. Leave it to Woody to put a funny spin on a serious subject. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “I can’t be...
Mindfulness 20 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is nothing we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice...
Working For Ourselves 15 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
The ever-growing IT revolution and globalization have pretty much wrecked a lot of middle class jobs and occupations. Whether we realize it or not, today most of us are working for ourselves – not on...
Cooking On All Four Burners 12 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
There’s a French expression - “Mets toi ici plein milieu de la vie. De la, on voit toute choses dans sa perspective reelle.” In English, “Put yourself in the middle of life. From there you can see eve...
Getting Over Fear 8 Aug 2013 | 05:46 am
Inaction breeds doubts and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear do not sit home and think about it. Get out and get busy. Dale Carnegie. From time to time, many of ...
It's never too late to do what you love. 2 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
“How often I found where I should be going by starting out for someplace else." Buckmaster Fuller. “I’m turning 60. A third of my life is behind me.!” Woody Allen. Most of us spend at least a third ...
Life is Layers and Layers... 29 Jul 2013 | 04:32 am
The farther behind I leave the past the closer I am to forging my own character. Isabelle Eberhardt. As I walk through the years that seem to be going ever faster, the months magically collapse into ...
Seizing Opportunity 25 Jul 2013 | 08:12 pm
All of life is change. It can be a positive or a negative – depending on how you deal with it. If you look upon the positive, you’ll find an opportunity, but if you only see the negative you won’t ev...
Waiting for Monday morning... what entrepreneurs do. 22 Jul 2013 | 07:01 pm
In our new world work place, technologically interconnected, interdependent and lean, if you’re not thinking and working like an entrepreneur, it’s time. An entrepreneur is much more than a person wh...
Never Redline Your Core Values 18 Jul 2013 | 03:57 am
Each of us has a set of values by which we do our best to live. Life being what it is, often these values are tested. Daily, it seems, you bump up against someone whose world seems to be coloured sou...