Do you sometimes think to yourself “I am alone”? I do. It is usually immediately after dropping my kids off at school on a day that is the start of a five day stretch where they live at their dad’s home. It doesn’t matter that about thirty minutes earlier they were driving me bonkers with [...]
If you live in British Columbia then you likely have an account with BC Hydro. In fact, getting an account at BC Hydro was one of the first things I did when I moved out and became an independent person. At that time, I was told a good way to build credit was to make sure I always [...]
You are not alone and not surprisingly this is one of the leading causes of breakups and divorce. Many partnerships are comprised of these two opposing personalities which makes sense as opposites attract and when they get together each gets to see how the other half lives. Living with a spender can be fantastic fun for the normally conservative saver. At [...]
You are stuck in some area of your life. You're in debt, you're in conflict, something has just happened to you and you are operating on autopilot just to get through the day. If this sounds familiar, I'm asking you to stop, take a break and get clarity on your personal values. I can imagine you have [...]
Today I woke up feeling unmotivated. I tried to work for a bit and then decided what I was doing wasn't getting me anywhere so I took a break. I pondered the fact that it was cold in my house and the pilot light on the boiler had likely gone out again. I emailed my [...]
I'll never forget when someone said that to me. It was the last day of my back-to-work training course and the facilitator looked at me with her very understanding eyes and said "I worry about you." Of all the 20 women in the class, she worried about me. Being an introvert I couldn't ask her [...]
I have gotten to start again (thank you divorce) and my first step for starting again was figuring myself out and what my values are. I know that if I am not living according to my own values, I will be unhappy, unmotivated and unsuccessful. I continually see how this lesson plays out every day [...]
Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it’s gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don’t go, “ohhh I'm sorry.” That’s a stupid thing to say. First of all, you're making ‘em feel bad for being really happy, which isn't fair and second of all: DIVORCE IS ALWAYS GOOD NEWS. I know that [...]