Work, Eat, Sleep, Repeat – is This All There is? Society has become a fast-paced, difficult place to live, never mind to actually thrive in. For the majority of people, excessive work hours have become the necessity in order to meet basic financial obligations – with many not even being able to meet those obligations. Every day seems to be a struggle just to get by. This type of life...
Everyone is Working to Go Nowhere Fast The anxiety our society is facing these days is hard, heavy and unavoidable, especially when one factors in how hard everyone is working to go nowhere fast. Never mind saving for a vacation, or for an emergency! Most people work to cover expenses, or worse yet, work to pay off debt, while incurring more debt because they can’t afford their day to day...
Do you have dreams that you would like to pursue but have never been able to figure out how? You Are Not Alone. It seems that in today’s fast-paced, every-second-micro-managed society everyone is facing the same challenges; time constraints;insufficient funds, and;day-to-day commitments such as family, work and social obligations. These are just a few of the obstacles most people face when trying to create a plan for a better life. ...
How Much Quality of Life Can One Expect? Financial freedom used to be a dream that many people aspired to, now it seems it is more of an unrealistic fantasy. Regular jobs aren’t even covering basic expenses, meaning that incurring debt is unavoidable. How much quality of life can one expect when, instead of working towards goals, they are working only to meet current financial obligations and pay off past...
Give-to-Get and the Business Power of Cooperatives In my article, Working with Charities, I expand on the fact that although most people do a good deed for the simple act of having helped, if examined further these types of feel-good actions can actually benefit a business in lot of ways. Some returns are obvious, like tax deductions, but other rewards are not so obvious; like cross-promotions and marketing value. An...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rId95N2teUc Well here we are my friends, the penultimate day of 2020. It's been quite the year for my team and I. I launched this blog way back in March, 2019 (which I hope you've all enjoyed reading, and will continue to enjoy for years to come), traveled overseas several times, had the opportunity to attend the Toronto International Film Festival (which was a blast), and have hopefully accomplished much in my goal to...
There were several points over the past couple of weeks where I could have posted this up, but for one reason or another it happened to fall on today, which for many of you out there is the night before Christmas (and all through the house....). I've said before that holidays are of the utmost importance, and that there is quite literally no good reason that you should not enjoy...
I've been reading a lot about the apocalypse that was supposed to happen today, and pondering whether there were people out there who were actually silly enough to go out and stockpile things to prepare for it. Since you're reading this instead of huddling in your basement trying to escape impending doom, it's pretty obvious that the world didn't meet its untimely demise, and the end of the Mayan calendar...
You've surely heard it before - keep your ego in check. You don't want to be the overbearing boss. And there's merit to that notion. Who hasn't dealt with the overachieving colleague who is constantly pushing their way as the only way? It's not a lot of fun and can lead to all too much friction. But as in so many things, moderation here is the key. Sure, too much...
There's yet another old saying, that goes "never mix business and personal." While I don't one hundred percent agree with the statement, there are times when it's not necessarily in the best interests of your business to mix the two, and that's what we'll be discussing today. Under some circumstances, it can actually be a boon to your business. In others, perhaps not so much. The trick lies in telling...