If you are of a certain age, you’ll remember the commercial ditty, “Maybe it’s Maybelline.” The whole point was, if you met a womena who looked mighty fine, maybe it really had something to do with her makeup. (Sexist and demeaning? Yes. And so NOT today’s topic) I was reminded of that ditty the other...

I was writing an episode for the 5Cs podcast when I realized it contains some nuggets that pertain to everyday life. Here are some very abridged thoughts for you to ponder. No doubt you’ve heard at least once in your life that you need to sell yourself first before you accomplish anything, sell an idea,...

Warning. This opinion piece is a rant.    Brene Brown is wrong to advocate her brand of vulnerability for senior organizational leaders. In the eyes of their team, customers, and shareholders, following this woman’s ideas sets every senior leader up for failure.   Vulnerability means ‘the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility...

Like so many of us, my career and work-for-someone-else life could be summed up in one word: MORE. More education, training, money, promotions, profit accumulation, ROI, and wealth. Everything you and I learned, trained for and practiced had the word MORE in front of it. So, when I began exploring environmental sustainability and climate action,...

Have you ever considered how exactly where you are right now is where you are supposed to be? Recently, I’ve witnessed a few examples of this exact thing and want to share why absolutely nothing is perfect or awful. It just is.   First Case For years, a friend had an extravagant, fantastical idea for treating...

This week, I thought I’d share the inside view of some of the things happening here in what will be the centre of the (Ontario, Canada) universe for all things Eclipse. This region, known as Niagara, my own backyard, has gone completely bonkers.   You know I live twenty minutes away from the world’s eighth...

I reconnected with a favourite colleague from 28 years ago the other week. Of course, in sixty minutes, we barely scratched the surface of the nearly three decades of in-between. And agreed that more sessions were needed to get fully caught up. In extolling the frustrations of playing executrix to her elderly UK cousin’s estate,...

Right now, my husband is on a six-week journey. This past Monday, he had surgery for his rotator cuff muscle. We are just completing week one. Naturally, I have a few thoughts …… When we get married, we sign up for the usual ‘for better or worse.’ And rarely do we give thought to what...

The other day, I encountered the usual ‘What’s your time worth’ argument. You know the one.  You don’t build wealth by penny-pinching. Because your time is more valuable than you think. Instead, what you are supposed to do is -Decide the value of an hour of your time. -Outsource any task that will cost less...

 Right now, I am visiting my 97-year-old mother-in-law.  Where the outdoor temperatures are a balmy minus 25 to 30, it does not matter whether you use Fahrenheit or Celsius. It is bloody cold here.   One morning this week, I asked her what she had learned and wished she had learned EARLIER in her life....