It’s my third time to the same coffee shop this week and, just like last time, they act like they’ve never seen me before. I’m not asking for a lot — just treat me like you value my business. I remember when the first Starbucks opened in North Vancouver (the…
It’s been a year in the making and I am within days of saying manyana to my book as it heads across the country to get printed. I didn’t realize how much effort the cover would be. I started with my rough ideas on paper, then created some different draft…
I was driving down a pot-hole riddled road heading toward the bungy jump site outside Nanaimo, BC when I saw this sign. I love the brilliance of this! They took something that is an annoyance and turned it into a positive message about controlling your speed. Maybe we would pay…
In a workshop today the conversation came up about bad habits. “I know I’m a perfectionist,” one of the store managers admitted to me on our walk after lunch. “But even though I know I need to change I can’t – I can’t stand seeing things not done right!” she…
It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. It was day three of a four day, eight presentation road trip with one day to go. I had wrapped up a wonderful morning keynote at the Growing Rural Tourism conference in Camrose, Alberta to an enthusiastic audience, flown back to Kelowna…