Love Yourself First
Love yourself first. This week I have the good fortune of having my birthday and valentine’s day back to back. Two days of attention and love! Fantastic. I love it! But it also reminds me that, what is really important to our wellbeing, is the ability to love...
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Do You Know Your Numbers?
Do you know your numbers? Before we go into it, let me vent a bit:) I'm flabbergasted by how many people run their businesses with a 'fly by the seat of their pants' attitude. When I ask a business owner/ entrepreneur, how is your business going? Are you on track to...
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Become Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Become Comfortable Being Uncomfortable We have all heard that challenges make us more. They make us grow. They make us become even better than we are are today. Yet, most of us avoid challenging ourselves. We prefer to remain in our so-called ‘comfort zone’. And...
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Compound It Starting Today
Compound It Starting Today. I have been a follower of Darren Hardy and if you have not read his book, The Compound Effect, then I strongly suggest you pick it up and read it! I read it years ago and I keep going back to it whenever I need to jumpstart my life and my...
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Why You Need a Side Hustle
Why you need a side hustle. So, what’s a side hustle and why would I ever need one? A side hustle is a way to make money on the side of your day job. In the old days it was referred to as moon-lighting. Nowadays, it's a must. It is flexible enough to allow you to work...
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Why Personal Wellness Needs to Be a Priority
My good friend, Dr. Nathalie Beauchamp, Canada's top Chiropractor & Functional Medicine Expert says, "Don't just wait for better health, take action and design your life." This is the month that everyone goes wild on their health and wellness, especially focusing...
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Don’t Make Resolutions
Don’t make resolutions - make evolutions instead! Every New Year’s Eve, many of us make resolutions on how we are going to live our lives for the next 365 days. In fact, it’s about how we are going to change our lives for the better. The wish list of New Year’s...
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5 Simple Life Lessons I’ve Learned
Here are 5 simple lessons I've learned that I want to share with you as I reflect on life during these holidays. Sometimes the hustle and bustle of shopping and the buying of gifts around Christmas time overwhelms us. We forget what is really important in life. Life...
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The Magic of Part-Time
Recently I attended a leadership conference on entrepreneurship. It was a fantastic event with many wealthy entrepreneurs sharing what they did to get to where they are today in achieving multi-millionaire levels of income and lifestyle. They talked about...
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How To Influence Your Team
I asked myself the other day if my team had the same vision as I did about our business. To be honest, I wasn’t sure. Although I had shared the vision and the big picture with them, there were always questions in my mind, and those questions usually arose from...
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The Shift Towards Social Entrepreneurship
Quietly but steadily, there is a growing shift towards social entrepreneurship. Today, new, developing and existing companies are implementing a social cause in their business model. “Social entrepreneurship is the use of startup companies and other entrepreneurs to...
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Who Do You Want On Your Team?
This comes up often as I coach and mentor my team members on who they want in their tribe. You know the kind of people that would contribute to growth and team success. I started to write down the qualities that were important to me and essential if the business was...
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Pushing Through The Pain
This past week I was fortunate to be with my daughter and son-in-law for the birth of their first child. They had decided to have a home birth using a midwife to have a more meaningful experience. I'm so proud and pleased they went that route and that I was able to be...
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How Residual Income Changes Everything
Most of us work very hard to make a living, but it's really trading time for money. It means providing our time to someone else or to our business to generate enough revenue to live off. And there is only so much time in a day. In this fast paced world, time is...
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Why I Changed My Message.
Messaging is so important in today’s social environment. And keeping it up to date is definitely a necessary requirement, otherwise it gets stale and old. That’s why many companies and organizations change their logos, taglines and messaging every so often. To refresh...
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Are Emotions Getting In Your Way
Did you just get an email that caused your emotions to stir? Did someone just say something to you that you took personally? Did someone’s body language indicate displeasure with you? Or did someone ignore your text messages and you now feel unimportant? All of these...
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7 Secrets To Achieving Your Dream Lifestyle
Years ago I realized that I wanted a different lifestyle for both my family and myself and knew that this lifestyle could be created with enough planning, work and enthusiasm. Having the type of life that most people only dream about is entirely possible, but you need...
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Are Your Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back?
Do you have limiting beliefs? Well, it’s kind of a rhetorical question. We all have limiting beliefs whether we recognize them or admit it. So what is a limiting belief anyway? Limiting beliefs are ’those which constrain us in some way.’ They keep us from growing...
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The Power of Gratitude
This past weekend we celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving in Saratoga Springs, NY. We got together with our daughter and son-in-law who live there and our son joined us from Toronto. Along with the 3 dogs, we climbed one of the nearby Adirondack mountains in the rain! ...
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Set It. Plan It. And Then Forget About It.
From an early age we dream about what we want to be and do. In those years, we just dream and wish. “A dream is a wish your heart makes.” - Walt Disney We have no idea how to get there. If we are lucky, we might have parents that get us started in the right way, on...
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Is This Business Model Right For You?
Many people jump into network marketing without really thinking if this type of business model is right for them. The story goes something like this. They are confronted by a friend or family member who tells them that it would be good for them, that it is easy,...
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15 Things To Get You Out Of A Rut.
Are you in a proverbial life rut? You know what I mean. You are doing the same old, same old, day in and day out, never getting ahead, never moving forward, just running in idle. Does bored, tired, disinterested, lifeless, grumpy, complaining, blaming, irritable,...
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Do You Feel Jaded by Network Marketing?
I have talked to a lot of people in network marketing and a lot of people who have been in and out of network marketing. Of that second set of people, many were out of it because of what happened. They were rejected, they didn’t make any money, people told them it...
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Are You An Influencer?
Are you an Influencer? I was at a recent high level leadership training that focused on taking your business to the next level. During the 4 days, the speaker talked about the fact to go to the next level you have to become an ‘influencer’. The point he was making...
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Why We Need a Game Plan
“Every game has a winner. Every winner has a game plan.” - Quoteprism No matter what we do in life, we need to plan on how we are going to do it. Otherwise it will never happen. Whether you call it a game plan, a life plan, a business plan or an action plan, it is...
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