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That famous quote from Forest Gump is hokey but true: Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.
The other day, I read this pretty inspiring post from Yaro Starak, one of my favourite bloggers. Without realizing it, I have been managing my life this way for the past two [...]
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I’ve been living in Vancouver for a month now. Things are starting to settle down but also stir up too. Now that I’m not distracted by boxes and boxes of packed stuff (stuff, by the way, that I later wondered why I packed), I’m now staring at the daunting task of launching two businesses, drumming [...]
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I really believe in taking the path of least resistance. Nothing that “should be” should be that difficult. Learning this has been really really expensive, both on a personal and professional level.
Case-in-point: Opening our Spinning business.
In 2004, my husband and I opened up a Spinning studio – sort of. I say “sort of” because we [...]
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(Wow! This is my 50th post!!! Unbelievable.)
I feel like there is a crazy change-shift happening in the universe. One of my friends is undergoing major life altering things – her elderly mom is very sick and has been bedridden for the past month, which coincidentally happened at the same time that she got promoted and [...]
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It’s now been three weeks since I was let go from my job.
I can’t believe how extraordinarly busy I have been in this time frame, but when I sum it up, my weeks look like this:
Week 1: Family from Vancouver visiting.
Week 2: Deal with the truth that I have been terminated from my job.
Week 3: [...]
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I cleared out my office today. Finding it very strange how I am more focused on making the HR Manager feel more comfortable than concerned about my own well being.
Also visited the labour lawyer today just to get them to review my letter. She has agreed with my suggested revisions.
Now that my family has gone [...]
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Happy Canada Day!, originally uploaded by Ian Muttoo.
Happy Canada Day everyone! Well, all my Canuck compatriots, anyway.
I’m not much of a patriot (we Canadians tend not to be), but I do tend to bake a cake on Canada Day in celebration of our nation’s birthday. Also, I’m excited because my family is visiting from Vancouver [...]
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So it happened today. I was officially let go from the place that I worked at for 2 years. A place that I loved to work at until about 3 months ago and where I met some wonderful people. I wrote a note to my staff a few months ago letting them know that we [...]
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The village cross roads, originally uploaded by Pixeldays.
I am at a cross-road.
Since the inception of my business idea, I have been working in a senior-level capacity at my day job and then moonlighting at home to work on my business. It’s been a tough journey between work, home life and the business and now after [...]
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Warning – Rambling Ahead
I’ve been thinking about my health a lot lately.
It’s easy to feel slothful when I’m working eight hours at a desk or sitting around a meeting table, only to interrupt myself to hop on the elevator to go down a few flights to get a coffee or a meal in the cafeteria. [...]
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In his wildly successful book, The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss writes:
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: [...]
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