Four things

What are four things you need in the people that act as your support group?
Now, I’m not talking about your family or sometimes even you friends, but perhaps people that you have come to trust in a mentor capacity, ex – boss and professional colleague that keeps you on track for your goals. [...]

Certainty

By Jeff Kinch
I have never been (overly) jealous of those who’ve accumulated or accomplished more. Since I was young, however, I’ve been envious of those that had an unyielding sense of what they wanted or wanted to be. I’m not referring to an 8 year old who wants to play in the NFL, [...]

Its where you finish

Its not where you start, its where you finish.
- General Colin L. Powell (Retired), San Francisco Nov 19th, 2009
I attended an amazing speech by General Colin Powell (Retired) at our annual user conference in San Francisco last week. The speech covered politics, philanthropy, technology, health and life. Now, I’ve seen him before in a similar [...]

5 Ways to Beat the Ugly Networking Stigma

By CAREEREALISM – Approved Expert, Kris Parfitt
“My intention is to meet five people at this function who I really connect with and that two of them eventually become clients.” My friend was impressed while somewhat doubtful of my declaration. My actual success that night was that I met ten people with whom I connected, [...]

Depression

“Depression is the inability to construct a future”
-Rollo May, American existential psychologist
From reading a recent report on the state of depression in America (and we’ll extrapolate for Canada) 5% of people (15M in the USA) suffer from severe depression, while an outstanding 50% have suffered some form of measurable anxiety over the course of their [...]

Spending money in a recession

By Jeff Kinch
“There are three forces shaping the world….money, women and journalism”
Deborah Campbell, The Walrus, October 2009
Studying Commerce and Finance in university we were taught a valuable if counter intuitive lesson in business: there’s never a better time to spend money than in a recession. It’s a lesson that is easier in theory than [...]

Franchise

I grew up loving NBA basketball (less as the league began morphing into a stage for individuals and abandoning the beautiful teamwork of the great Lakers/Celtics teams of the 80s). I was a Celtics fan so I hated the Pistons as they proved they were going to take the mantle from Bird and company. [...]

Symbols

It was a beautiful autumn day, the leaves were dancing along the ground, the air was crisp, as I ran through the park on the way home. I have run down that path before, but today was different. I was more tuned in, more aware, it was a changing of season. What [...]

Mistakes

The Greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearful you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard, The notebook 1927
Many people beat themselves up on making mistakes instead of using the positive energy of learning to move forward. Every mistake is a rich learning opportunity. I recall a time a number of [...]

Energy

By Jeff Kinch
Colin asked me if I could put together an article based on a very elusive topic for me: energy. Energy is something I seem to be constantly chasing; through nutritional experimentation, futile attempts at getting more sleep and ultimately resulting in mass consumption of Tim Horton’s coffee. Fortunately, having just finished [...]

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