I know, it’s a strange way to phrase a question. Shouldn’t I have asked, “Is it worth buying life insurance for yourself?” That would be grammatical – and miss my point. Someone I know, who is very familiar with my message of the importance of financial protection for women, recently disclosed to me that while […]
How Books Are Like Beer
Are you a fan of self-help books? Do you have stacks of them to help improve every aspect of your business, financial, personal or physical life? Take your business to the next level, use your time more efficiently, learn how to relax and de-stress, do these ten exercises to be fit and flexible? Is there […]
Women and Investing: How We Benefit From a Lack of Confidence
My daughter took me to task this week when she saw my proposed title for this blog post on a scrap of paper. “What’s this?” she asked. “You’re always telling me to to act with more confidence, and now you’re going to tell women that it’s OK not be confident?” she asked, incredulous. “Not quite,” […]
Ditch Your New Year's Resolutions and Do This Instead
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Have you given up on any of them yet? Some of them? The whole lot? Did you fail by the end of the first week of January? If so, consider yourself in good company. Have you noticed how many gyms advertise membership specials in December and January? The […]
Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions and Do This Instead
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? Have you given up on any of them yet? Some of them? The whole lot? Did you fail by the end of the first week of January? If so, consider yourself in good company. Have you noticed how many gyms advertise membership specials in December and January? The […]
Eight Women vs One Contractor – The difference accountability makes
Days before he died, Malcolm and I managed to have some quiet time alone in his hospital room. – I’ve been thinking. When Malcolm started sentences this way they were usually accompanied by a mischievous look and led to outlandish schemes that his never-a-dull-moment mind had concocted. This time was different. – All my life I’ve […]
Finally a Way to Find More Time
“When are you going to write another blog post? I enjoy reading them. Have I missed your latest one?” My girlfriend hadn’t missed a thing. It’s been a couple of months since my last post. My challenge hasn’t been finding something to write about, it’s finding the time. When I published my last post in November, […]
What I Learned from an Olympic Gold Medalist about Pushing Through Failure
Can you think of a moment in your life when you worked very hard to achieve a goal and you failed? Or you tried to accomplish a task and you kept running up against one stumbling block after another? Did you keep going or did you quit? How did you feel as you were working […]
Are You Too Old To Succeed?
Apparently I’m really old. At least that’s what John* the taxi driver implied by association when I rode in his car. When one reaches this delicate age, I gather it’s all downhill from here where success is concerned. Two weeks ago, I attended a workshop at a hotel near our local airport. It’s a good […]
Moving Through Fear to Resilience
Has fear ever stopped you from moving forward with a project? Have you ever kept quiet at a key moment for fear of sounding foolish or said “no thanks” to an opportunity because you were afraid that you might fail? Last week I had a moving chat with my ten year old, Miss A, and […]
