Attending Meetings: Playing a Role in Their Success

From job interviews to strategy sessions, it’s important to make a good impression in any meeting. Making a good impression starts with careful planning and preparation. So, here are a few tips to help you get ready for your next meeting: Confirm meeting time and place with a quick call or email. This will ensure that you don’t...

Take the Stress out of Holiday Shopping

Finding the right Christmas gift for everyone on your list can be tricky, not to mention stressful.  So here are some handy tips that will help make your seasonal shopping simple and stress-free: 1)     The thought counts – Put some thought into each gift so it matches the tastes of each recipient.  Everyone will appreciate...

Enjoy a Minimalist Holiday

Are financial worries leaving your holiday plans out in the cold?  This year families around the globe arefinding ways to cut back, hold off and hunker down for the impending economic storm.  While we may enjoy the rituals of preparing for the holidays, it can add up to a lot of emotional, physical and financial...

Turn Your Home Into a Residential Commercial

Simple steps to increase the appeal of your home to potential buyers Preparing to sell your home this year?  The most common mistake many sellers make when staging their homes that you can avoid is preparing your home based on your personal tastes. When selling, you are creating a ‘residential advertisement’ for your home, so...

The Cost of Disorganization At Work

It’s so easy to say “I’ll get organized when I have the time.”When you’re at the end of the day and all you want to do is leave, it’s all too easy to forget about closing the loop on work and physically tidying up your space. But being disorganized at work goes deeper than just...

What to Say If You Are Told You Are Not Ready to Be Promoted

Being told you didn't get a job is always hard to swallow. But when you really don't know why you didn’t get the job, it's even harder. There's nothing wrong with saying that you were disappointed in this decision, but also take this as an opportunity to find out what it would take for you to...

How to Recover Your Bedroom From Clutter

We spend roughly one-third of our day in our bedrooms, most of it sleeping.  Little wonder it can be difficult to keep a bedroom tidy and clutter-free.  Following these easy-to-remember steps will help you keep things in order—maybe even get a good night’s sleep. Make your bed first thing in the morning. It makes the...

Rev Up Your Day with a Reverse Bucket List

Another day, another list - another addition to that to-do list, or the bucket list of things you would like to ultimately accomplish. But wait a minute, what's so bad about that? Most of have bucket list of things we would love to experience while we are still able to. Whether it’s in our head...

Dining at Your Desk – 8 Reasons to Not Make it a Habit

Eating lunch at your desk happens to the best of us - we’re slammed with projects, and it’s cold or wet outside. In fact 50% of people who work in offices eat regularly at their desk. While it’s convenient, eating at your desk is a habit you may consider breaking. I’m not suggesting that you...

Lifelong Learners Plan Ahead for Professional Development & Career Success

I don’t know about you, but there’s something about the upcoming Fall that lights a desire to return to the classroom. And who says that you can’t be a life-long learner? You don’t need to return to post-secondary necessarily but keeping your skills up-to-date and learning new things is always a smart thing to do....