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…
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,…
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.)…
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…
The art of making time work for you We are working in a time of distraction – endless emails, back-to-back meetings, interruptions, and growing work demands are taking their toll. People are constantly rushing, multi-tasking, bringing work home, and struggling to find time for themselves and their family. Based on…