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I can’t stand the term “networking.” Never have, and hopefully never will. It’s a term and verb that makes me shudder. It carries with it connotations of using others for the sole purpose of getting ahead. It makes me think of little other than selfishness and self importance.
Do I think we need to meet new people? Of course! But...
Read MoreWe live in a debt culture. The majority of us have debt of some kind, be it a mortgage, student loans, a car loan, a line of credit, carrying a balance on our credit or store card(s), a government-endorsed loan against retirement savings, a buy-now-pay-later purchase, a payday loan, a pay advance, a debt owing to a bookie or dealer, or a mix of the above.
While many would argue that the seriousness of the various types of debt varies from “good debt” to “avoid at any cost,” I would argue that the fundamentals of how they affect our behaviour and how we feel are generally the same...
Read MoreYoung or old, which one are you?
The better question might be: Which one do you want to be over the long term?
This past weekend Mr. F2P and I found ourselves mingling with a group of old and young. This is certainly not the first time we've been in this situation of course.
The event? Our 25-year high school reunion.
Read MoreI'm ignorant, and I'm OK with that. But it doesn't mean that I don't try to be a little less so every day.
Our knowledge, skills, abilities and experience are tested all day long, with every decision we make and in every conversation we have with others. Well, they are tested, unless we tend to do the same things every day/week/month, thereby exposing ourselves to the same type of information and the same types of conversations over and over again with the same people (like the movie Groundhog Day, which I’ve written about here).
Read MoreWriter David Foster Wallace once wrote: “We are not the center of the universe, but we are part of it.”
I learned the true meaning of that statement a long time ago.
I want to take you back to that day, Monday, July 31, 1995, a typical Winnipeg summer day. I was nineteen-years-old and managing my family’s then-side-retail business located at The Forks Market.
Read MoreI've already posted an article about gardening and included our garden in my list of 10 favourite things, but I can't help writing about it again because I think it's a fundamental part of enabling a person to live on their terms.
If you have any outdoor space, or near-outdoor space, at all—front yard, back yard, side yard, sunroom, balcony—I encourage you to grow something...even if it's only a window sill on which to grow herbs.
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Yesterday I found myself sitting in a large room wondering why I was going to subject myself to a day of likely discomfort. Worse yet, I'd invited a friend to join me and I already felt bad for subjecting another human being to the experience that would likely follow.
How did end up in this situation?
Read MoreI think you’ll enjoy this story of my SAA flight from Johannesburg to New York on my way back from a South African Safari nearly two years ago.
It was August 27, 2014 and my good friend and I were home bound after a glorious 12-day safari.
Read MoreI’ve been having trouble writing lately. I can assure you, it’s a first.
A lack of inspiration is not the problem. Like James Altucher, I can easily come up with ten ideas a day and once I get started on a blog post, the words just spill out, nearly effortlessly, at least until I start editing ;). But my “effortless writing” seems to slow to a trickle when working on a new project: my first book.
Read MoreI just finished reading Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool. I read a lot of books, but there are few that I include in the category I call life enhancing. I’ll be adding this one to the list.
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