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In Praise of Manual Labour

The plan was to take a week off from my office routine and build a shed. The lessons learned, it turns out, were as big as the shed. For seven years I’ve been thinking about extending a storage shed in the backyard. “One week” promised Big Jim, my guru of…

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Lessons learned from a road trip with teenagers

I recently returned from a 6,000 km road trip with teenagers from our bucolic hometown of Kelowna to hold-on-to-your-wallet Los Angeles. Yes, the distance was great; surprisingly so were the lessons learnt. The plan for spring break was for myself and our two girls (13 and 16) to spend a week,…

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Contradictions in the speaking industry

You might not be a speaker, but I was ruminating on my professional (at least the speaking part) and came up with these contradictions I thought you might be interested in. As you get older you get better. As you charge more the more you are in demand (you hope.)…

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Do You Have FOMO?

Where have I been? I’m obviously not getting out enough, meeting the right people, checking out the new scene! I must have F.O.M.O.. I was meeting with a financial advisor yesterday. Nice guy. We were talking about my book Give Me a Break (Oh, I think I just gave it…

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REFOCUS, BY CHOICE

Sometimes I think that we are all delusional. We talk as if our woes are permanent when nothing is really permanent. We think that we are powerless yet every moment we operate the most sophisticated life form on earth. We blame ourselves for screw-ups yet we ignore all the small…

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