As promised, today I’m beginning my series of posts featuring the highlights of last week’s successful TEDx Waterloo event. At 22 years of age, Taylor Jones was one of the youngest speakers there. He introduced himself as a recent college graduate with no noteworthy accomplishments or ambitions, sharing the fact that he’d applied to attend…
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The Versatile Blogger Award
Two years ago, I was interviewed by Erika Liodice about how I chased my dream of quitting my job and starting my own business. We haven’t really stayed in touch since then, so I was surprised to receive an email from her recently, letting me know that she had nominated me for the Versatile Blogger…
Juggling Your Priorities
After last week’s successful job fair in Mississauga, one of the team members sent the rest of us the following 30-second speech from Bryan Dyson, the former CEO of Coca Cola. It is so powerful that I just had to pass it on. Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five…
Striving for Balance in 2011
Last week I shared some of my personal challenges with work-life balance, so it only seems right that I follow up with what I plan to do about it. For Christmas, my stepson gave me a calendar called Office Time-Killers: Sneaky Ways of Slacking Off. My initial reaction was that he doesn’t know me very…
All Work and No Play…
Like many of you, I sat down a year ago to identify what I wanted to achieve in 2010. I was very happy with the direction my business was going and felt it was time to shift my priorities to my personal life. When you really love your work, you often need to be reminded…
Summertime
I hope you’re having an awesome summer – busy enough that you don’t get bored, but taking lots of time out to make the most of this season that is all too short! I’ve been making weekly trips to the Hamilton Mountain Farmers’ Market and enjoying fresh local produce, including peaches, corn on the cob,…
Book Review: Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality
Earlier this year, Allison Maslan visited my blog to tell us about her Blast Off! Dream Career Questionnaire and her new book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality. At that time I said I’d be posting my review of the book, and today I’m going to make good on…
The C Word: Let’s Stamp it Out
Once in a while I like to set aside my usual topics of productivity and social media to talk about other things that are going on in my life or in the world around us, and today I’d like to put the spotlight on cancer. I don’t think I need to explain what a terrible…
Spring is in the Air
This is one of my favourite times of year. After months of short, cold, grey days, it’s so energizing to see the sun more and more and for longer stretches of time. It’s so easy to go into hibernation during the winter months when you work from home, especially if you’re inclined to introversion as…
Email and the Seasons of Life
Do you ever have days when you download your email and find your inbox full of newsletters, spam, chain letters, jokes, and warm fuzzies? You can unsubscribe from newsletters and use SpamArrest to eliminate spam, but how do you handle well-intentioned friends who feel compelled to share every single email that puts a smile on…
